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domingo, 6 de julio de 2014

¿Qué significa...? / What is the meaning of...?

"No quiso la lengua castellana que de casado a cansado hubiese más de una letra de diferencia" Lope de Vega. (Poeta y dramaturgo español).

Lope de Vega, Spanish poet and dramatist, creates a play on words with 'casado' (married) and 'cansado' (tired). 
He plays on the literal meaning of both key words in the same phrase alluding to the Spanish language. Spanish terms for a word that differs from the other by just one letter.

What do you think about this phrase? What was the purpose of Lope?

We can talk about it in our one to one Spanish conversation classes by Skype!



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