@aescling this podcast episode i'm listening to is interviewing somebody who's receiving a fellowship named after walter benjamin
an important thing to know about the ancient romans is that they couldn't fucking count
one could argue that they simply had a different convention by which they counted intervals inclusively (e.g. their 8 day cycle of market days being called "nundinae").
in counterpoint i offer that for the first thirty-six years after Julius Caesar reformed their calendar to have a regular leap day every four years, the priests in charge of the calendar accidentally did it every three years instead.
rioplatense spanish is kinda relatively convenient for learning as a native english speaker.
since it saves on having to learn a couple of the not-present-in-english sounds used in many other dialects.
many speakers here don't distinguish /ñ/ from /nj/ (e.g. "cañón" is pronounced as "canion"). and of course, the famous sheísmo/zheísmo means that "ll" and "y" are pronounced with sounds already very familiar to english speakers (the english "sh" for most younger speakers of rioplatense)
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