Firmar sendas confesiones

[Perikles]

Originally Posted by AngelicaDeAlquezar

@Poli: Don't worry. It's normal, as you couldn't even have found it like that in the dictionary. .

He have found it if he had looked in the Oxford Spanish Dictionary:



sendos-das adjetivo plural

1 (cada uno): llevaban sendas pistolas each of them was carrying o they were each carrying a gun; la revista celebró su aniversario con sendas fiestas en Madrid y Barcelona the magazine celebrated its anniversary with parties in both Madrid and Barcelona

2 (uso criticado) (ambos) both

[AngelicaDeAlquezar]

@Perikles: I was only talking about the DRAE, but thank you for quoting Oxford.

@Alec: Raro, sí.

[Perikles]

Originally Posted by AngelicaDeAlquezar

@Poli: Don't worry. It's normal, as you couldn't even have found it like that in the dictionary.

Originally Posted by Perikles

He would have found it if he had looked in the Oxford Spanish Dictionary:

Originally Posted by AngelicaDeAlquezar

@Perikles: I was only talking about the DRAE, but thank you for quoting Oxford.

Now this is (to me) a fascinating example of how a definite article can lead to a misunderstanding. There are some words which when used with 'the' actually don't mean something definite but change the meaning of the noun into something abstract.

If I say "damn, I don't understand this word, I'm going to have to look it up in the dictionary" I don't mean a particular dictionary, I'm referring to the process of referring to whichever dictionary or dictionaries I need to find what I need. So I naturally understood @Angelica as meaning "you won't find it in any dictionary".

I find this fascinating - maybe I should get a life.

[AngelicaDeAlquezar]

My only thought was the DRAE, as that's the one we quote the most and the one in which I found the word after three different tries.
But I think you were just a victim of my solipsism: I expected "the dictionary" would give an idea of one and only, because otherwise I would have said "dictionaries" or "any dictionary".

But it's good to know that my own interpretation of English language is not the same for everyone. Next time I will avoid assuming.

[chileno]

Originally Posted by aleCcowaN

Yo jamás jamás jamais never lo había oído en el sentido 3 (y el ejemplo que figura ahí es argentino). Claro, a 25 km de mi casa ya comienza otro idioma en el que prometer significa asegurar y las cosas tienen anchor y largor.

Tu mamá es una santa!!!!