Category Archives: Metalinguistics

retazos mentales

Posted on December 23, 2013 by Julio Sueco

Find myself thinking about human relations today. Not because I hate the xmas season, which I do. But because solitude seems to glue some aspects of society in some pretty weird ways. Take for example a man I saw today … Continue reading →

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Competing languages

Posted on August 29, 2013 by Julio Sueco

I feel comfortable to say am a trilingual. Having said that I can proceed with a phenomenon that I have experienced as a trilingual, newly at that if one wills. I get stuck at times. Allow me to expand. I … Continue reading →

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Mirabile dictu

Posted on February 2, 2013 by Julio Sueco

Días extraños. 1.- El otro día me dí cuenta que en mis sueños quería corregirme de un error que me vi cometer. O sea, Me observaba en mis sueños. Un sueño lúcido. Tengo por costumbre agregarle miel a shampoo. En … Continue reading →

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Competing personas of a trilingual

Posted on January 5, 2013 by Julio Sueco

Here in the Swedish Highlands I speak Swedish to those few I speak to. Don’t get me wrong, there is the occasional Spanish speaker to whom one is lucky to exchange a few inborn lingo with in that tongue of … Continue reading →

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Espanglish & Spanglish

Posted on January 3, 2013 by Julio Sueco

This post was originally posted March the 3rd of 2005. But in order to celebrate the fact Espanglish has made into the DRAE we reprint it again with some slight modifications in orthography that I missed back then. One must … Continue reading →

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textile thy I

Posted on May 5, 2012 by Julio Sueco

Al final de cuentas patch work Is the little i . One wonders: why one fabric stands out more than the other . The hour determines the cloth . Sin embargo: La hora no est+á synchronized Aceptar o alterar . … Continue reading →

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Constraints

Posted on August 2, 2010 by Julio Sueco

I tend to adopt an attitude towards language that it’s nearly pristine in its stipulations since I exact a nativists view on language that cannot possibly meet the standards I want. That is, I want what it is said in … Continue reading →

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Lillgammal

Posted on April 10, 2010 by Julio Sueco

En Suecia están obsesionados con el comportamiento, todos están prestos a juzgar y otros detalles al primer indició de una desviación social. Quieren a toda costa que todo sea uniforme y de alguna manera la gran mayoría vive la  ilusión … Continue reading →

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Anomalies

Posted on April 7, 2010 by Julio Sueco

Anomalies are those things that do not just veer off into the unknown causing major friction in chartered and metered courses. They are in and by their own right natural occurrences that sometimes allow us to change course or make … Continue reading →

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quasimodo

Posted on March 19, 2010 by Julio Sueco

I need a new keyboard. Not alien like the one before me. Of course, you can’t see my keyboard but really, proof here is a minor bureaucratic shuffle of papers. I really need a new keyboard. But perhaps most importantly … Continue reading →

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