Time to brush up on your Castellano

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Anemone del Camino

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• Jul 16, 2017

• #1

New spelling rules, and a few letters are changing name or being droped from the alphabet. Also many accents dropped!

Of particualar Camino interest, "san" or "santo" will no longer be capitalised. Our Saint is now san Santiago Apostol, not San Santiago Apostol.

Also, Don Juan is now just don Juan, while words of English origin must be in italic, unless their spelling is "spanishticised".

http://www.elclubdeloslibrosperdidos.org/2017/05/nuevas-reglas-de-la-rae-ultima-entrega_2.html

 

alansykes

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Except the Francés

• Jul 16, 2017

• #2

Anemone del Camino said:

"san" or "santo" will no longer be capitalised. Our Saint is now san Santiago Apostol, not San Santiago Apostol.

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Interesting. I'm not sure I can remember ever hearing our saint tautologously called San (or san) Santiago. Santiago with a capital S will do. As we sometimes echo Don Quixote, muttering to ourselves when toiling through the meseta or over high passes in hot weather, ¡Santiago y cierra España!

 

Mikel Olivares

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2012, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18. Camino Francés.
2016, Camino Portugués from Oporto
2017, San Salvador.

• Jul 16, 2017

• #3

In Spain we don´t say "San Santiago". We say "Santiago", which is a contraction of "Sant Yago" in Old Castilian.

 

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Anemone del Camino

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• Jul 16, 2017

• #4

Mikel Olivares said:

In Spain we don´t say "San Santiago". We say "Santiago", which is a contraction of "Sant Yago" in Old Castilian.

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Yes, yes,. Yet is some litterature it still comes up like that. Should have give san Roque as an example. And why didn't I think of san Salvador?

 

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Donante Vitalicio

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Camino Infinito

• Jul 16, 2017

• #5

Thank you Anemone del Camino for the link to the document. This is interesting. Note, some of the "changes" were already in use in some castellano speaking countries, such as pronouncing the letter "y" as "YE" and the letter "v" as "UVE" . . . Buena suerte with your castellano y que la luz de Dios alumbre su camino.

 

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Anemone del Camino

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• Jul 16, 2017

• #6

Sailor said:

Buena suerte with your castellano y que la luz de Dios alumbre su camino.

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I'm too old to make changes to my Castellano. W will remain doble U, v will remain V de vaca, but one thing I will do is push these new rules even further when it comes to the tilde and keep not using it anywhere.