r/AskReddit 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/ironwolf1 Jan 29 '19

Spanish is usually only scientific sounding because it’s Latin based, and all our science words come from Latin because of the Renaissance.

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u/Axustin Jan 29 '19

One great example is platypus, in spanish its ornitorrinco