"LAST" Y SUS ENIGMAS
Last: Último, pasado. Last week , la semana pasada. The last page of the book , la última página del libro. He is the last person I would ask for money , es la última persona a quien pediría dinero. No confundir con latest , que es el último, con la idea del más reciente: His latest book is a mystery novel , su libro más reciente es una novela de misterio. His last book was a mystery novel , su último libro (ya no va a haber más) fue una novela de misterio. Last but not least es un cliché estúpido que todos aprenden, aun cuando ignoran cosas fundamentales de la gramática inglesa, que debemos rechazar por cursi, bobo. “Last but not least, Keith is an historian who has frequently visited Mexico and it doesn’t faze him that I, as a Mexican, should come to his country to write about its artists.” So very English. (London: Serpent’s Tail, 1990). Terry and David Fredman nos comentan algo interesante: “The final person or item mentioned is certainly not the least important just becau...