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Hay otras personas, por ejemplo ustedes, que al comienzo de Ia clase de alemán deIetrean extranjerismos.
There are others, you for instance, who start every German lesson by spelling a few foreign words.
extranjerismos, mayúsculas y minúsculas, dificil puntuación. ¡Qué desesperantel
foreign words, tricky punctuation. It was enough to break one's heart.
Siempre salgo con extranjerismos a estas horas de la noche.
I always break out in a foreign language at this time of the night.
El detective se mostró muy afable, aunque él sospechó que exageraba adrede su extranjerismo.
Satterthwaite suspected him of deliberately exaggerating his foreign mannerisms.
Extranjerismos y radicales foráneos dejan de enriquecer el flujo sanguíneo de la lengua indígena.
Foreign roots and borrowings are no longer absorbed into the blood stream of the native tongue.
este país extranjero ya ha perdido su aureola de extranjerismo, del mismo modo que el mío propio ha dejado de ser una costumbre geográfica.
this foreign land has by now lost its aura of abroadness just as my own ceased to be a geographic habit.
El universo se expandía conforme iba descomponiéndose, y el lenguaje que lo describía transformaba nombres en verbos y verbos en nombres, aburguesaba jergas callejeras, acuñaba neologismos, importaba extranjerismos y se deshacía de los términos obsoletos, intentaba no rezagarse.
The universe was expanding as it decayed, and the language that described it, turning nouns into verbs and verbs into nouns, gentrifying slang, coining neologisms, importing foreign words, and dumping obsolete ones, was doing its best to keep up.
A diferencia del de Borges, su estilo no es sobrio sino abundante, y nada intelectualizado, más bien sensorial y sensual, de estirpe clásica por su casticismo y corrección, pero no envarado ni arcaizante, más bien abierto a la asimilación de dichos y expresiones populares y a neologismos y extranjerismos, de rica musicalidad y limpieza conceptual, exento de complicaciones o retruécanos intelectuales.
Unlike Borges’s style, his is not sober but exuberant and not intellectualized at all; rather, it is sensory and sensual. Its clarity and correctness reveal its classical origins, but it is not stiff or old-fashioned—it is open to the assimilation of sayings and popular expressions and to neologisms and foreign words, and it possesses a rich musicality and conceptual purity free of complications or intellectual wordplay.
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