Funny how there’s so much text yet he never admits that he’s clearly in the wrong with his claim that Spanish has “just as many ambiguous words“ as English
In fact, the post reads like he thinks he triumphed
In fact, the post reads like he thinks he triumphed
Spanish is full of ambiguous words. Just looking around at my desk, I can find...
papel - paper/role
monitor - monitor/supervisor (in Arg, also the student in charge of class materials)
factura - invoice/a kind of pastry (Arg)
caja - box/till/case/drum/soundbox
revista - magazine/review
And let's not start with the verbs...
sonreír - smirk/grin/smile
arrancar - pull out / pull up / pluck / tear out / rip out / blow off / snatch / wrench / start / start a vehicle or machine / boot / set sail...
Paper - A Newspaper Company, Fiberous sheets, Thin covering, to title or register an object, etc.
Monitor - same. Both monitor as in observe/supervise, and the object, also a common title of newspapers.
Fr
Drum - Musical drum, storage barrel, to attract attention, to repeat, a fast beat, a stretched diaphram and its effect, throb.
Magazine - Publication, Bullet cartridge recepticle. ____ Review is common magazine title.
Seems roughly equal honestly. All languages borrow abstractions from simple words as complexity grows.
How so? He's not clearly in the right either, but that's because he doesn't compare counts, which might be meaningless anyway due to the poor precision of the method （synonyms in one language look like ambiguous translations for a word in the other).
His initial problem was that he couldn't give any Spanish examples (which could suggest that none exist). But when he used this method to generate examples, it seems like Mr. Manzo changed his mind. Sounds like a triumph.