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pulmón (masculine noun (el)) — lung. Look up pulmón in the dictionary

El vapor descongestiona bien los pulmones.
Steam does a good job of clearing your lungs.
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Old October 22, 2009, 07:02 AM
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pulmón (masculine noun (el)) — lung. Look up pulmón in the dictionary

El vapor descongestiona bien los pulmones.
Steam does a good job of clearing your lungs.
This has always been a word that puzzles me.

Lung.

But there is a pulmonary unit in hospitals...How come it isn't lunganary...
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Old October 22, 2009, 07:13 AM
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I know you're joking, but it's true that English has a split personality. The
high-toned Latin-based multisylabic English, and the blunt Anglo-Saxon
English. I know that English is considered a germanic language, but Latin
is everywhere, so it's nearly a romance language.

I wonder why English is considered germanic when to me it seems equally
latinate. Is it the structure of the language
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Old October 22, 2009, 10:25 AM
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I know you're joking, but it's true that English has a split personality. The
high-toned Latin-based multisylabic English, and the blunt Anglo-Saxon
English. I know that English is considered a germanic language, but Latin
is everywhere, so it's nearly a romance language.

I wonder why English is considered germanic when to me it seems equally
latinate. Is it the structure of the language


It's weird mix, to say the least.

Shouldn't be "latinic"?
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I don't believe correct the word steam in this phrase, really it speaks about the asthma illness, therefore there are medicaments for the witch helps to treatment to the same illness in the hospitals.

Therefore there in the phrase should to takes the medicament name.
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Crotalito - I think that the "bot" really DID mean to write steam. Some people breathe in steam (plain steam, created by boiling plain water) to help them clear up congestion in their lungs....
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Old October 22, 2009, 05:58 PM
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The word it's weir, I mean it should say the medicament name.
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The word it's weir, I mean it should say the medicament name.
Steam is pretty much the only word for vapor. Vapor (in English) has a different meaning.
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