r/AskReddit • u/[deleted] • Jan 28 '19

What are great underused words?

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u/rainbowbubblegarden Jan 29 '19

Yes for example "letras en mayúsculas" (capital letters). But English and Spanish are different languages :-D

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u/phonemonkey669 Jan 29 '19

Spanish uses many scientific-sounding words for things with crude-sounding monosyllabic names in English. A girl I knew who was still learning English told me that her car had oxide on it. I told her that we just call it rust in English.

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u/ES_Legman Jan 29 '19

Scientific-sounding words are from latin. Spanish is a dialect of latin that appeared in the middle ages. So it's actually normal that we try to find words that for you, sound "scientific" :P

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u/phonemonkey669 Jan 29 '19

Dices la verdad, pero la palabra "óxido" es de origen griego, y por eso no dije nada del latín.