{"id":3151,"date":"2010-03-04T05:00:21","date_gmt":"2010-03-04T13:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/?p=3151"},"modified":"2010-03-04T07:44:36","modified_gmt":"2010-03-04T15:44:36","slug":"world-book-news-dictionary-of-americanisms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/language\/translation\/world-book-news-dictionary-of-americanisms\/","title":{"rendered":"World Book News: Dictionary of Americanisms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"el pais on dictionary of spanish americanisms\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog-images-10\/americanismos.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"435\" height=\"247\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>El Pais<\/em> is talking about <a title=\"dictionary of spanish-language americanisms\" href=\"http:\/\/www.elpais.com\/articulo\/portada\/Polola\/menso\/trucho\/rumbear\/elpepuculbab\/20100227elpbabpor_4\/Tes\">a new <em>Dictionary of Americanisms<\/em><\/a> (Diccionario de americanismos) published by the Asociaci\u00f3n de Academias de la Lengua in Madrid under the direction of Humberto Lopez Morales, secretary general of the academies. Lopez Morales, though now a resident of Madrid, was born in Cuba and lived in Puerto Rico.<\/p>\n<p>Americanisms are a more vexing problem in Spanish &#8212; the second most spoken language in the world &#8212; than in English. Travelers across the Americas have to learn new words even for simple things like straws, napkins, and avocados as they travel from Mexico to Argentina.<\/p>\n<p>And of course the language is always changing. While dictionaries of Americanisms exist, there has not been a major new work in this area for twenty or thirty years. This book fills that void.<\/p>\n<p>Logging in at 2,500 pages, the dictionary costs 75 euros &#8212; about a hundred U.S. dollars &#8212; but for those of us who sometimes translate from Latin American Spanish it will be an essential reference to own or at least consult.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>El Pais is talking about a new Dictionary of Americanisms (Diccionario de americanismos) published by the Asociaci\u00f3n de Academias de la Lengua in Madrid under the direction of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[34,23],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3151"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3151"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3154,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3151\/revisions\/3154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}