LAS LENGUAS INGLESA Y ESPAÑOLA de Delfín Carbonell

A ver qué les parece. Creo que los hispanohablantes tenemos dudas en clase o en una reunión. Levantamos la mano y decimos: "Tengo una duda sobre lo que ha dicho usted..." Y creo también que los anglohablantes tienen "questions." Así, en la reunión también levantan la mano pero dicen: "I have a question about what you said..." ¿Estoy en lo cierto? ¿Qué creen ustedes? Am I right? What do you think?   

  No ser de recibo Be beyond (outside) the pale, unacceptable, unsatisfactory Lo que dice usted sobre las mujeres no es de recibo What you say about women is beyond  the pale — “Lo que no es de recibo es sentarse por primera vez a oír hablar de un tema y dar tu conformidad a un comunicado para los medios de difusión que ya está preparado de antemano sin nuestra intervención...” Jesús Cacho, Asalto al poder , 1988. Esp. Beyond (outside) the pale No ser de recibo, pasarse de la raya, pasarse dos (cuatro) pueblos Your behavior is simply beyond the pale Su comportamiento de usted no es de recibo — “They were now missioners to those who stand outside the pale of Church and Chapel.” James Munson, The Nonconformists , 1991. UK. || “And if that were not bad enough, things were about to go beyond the pale.” Daily Star, 23 Oct., 2023. UK.

Heraclitus of Ephesus, the Greek man of wisdom who lived five hundred years before Christ, said, observing nature, “everything is in a state of flux”, meaning that everything is forever changing and that no man ever steps in the same river twice because the water is ever flowing. The nature of the universe is change, movement, development and nothing is static.   Language cannot escape the dictum of the Greek philosopher in its natural change and evolution. However, the laws of linguistic change are often stymied by outside forces and circumstances that impede the inherent development of language.   When two tongues live together and share the same territory inhabited by the same people, a new phenomenon of change occurs in phonology, grammar and vocabulary. This factor is unavoidable and difficult to deal with or even halt. The use of two languages in daily social intercourse poses challenges that one-language societies do not have or even understand.   Since 1898 ...