The RAE is testing our language skills during these days of confinement. This same Sunday morning he published a test on laism, loism and leism in his Instagram stories, asking us if it is correct to say "we saw Juan yesterday" or "Juan we saw him yesterday" (in this case both options are accepted) .
The RAE has been carrying out similar games and initiatives since the beginning of the quarantine. The stories of the first two are posted on his Instagram profile: the game of esdrujulújulos , also shared on Twitter, and the game of dequeism, another test to know when to write "what" and when it is better "of what" . The idea is to playfully review some of the entity's recommendations.
These days there has been a robbery at the FAE (Fantastic Spanish Academy). Some esrujulújulos have stolen all the esdrújulas words from the dictionary. To recover them, three fantastic academics have gone to Esdrujulópolis and need help. We count on you! # QuédenseEnCasa pic.twitter.com/X5SPYBRHwq
- RAE (@RAEinforma) March 16, 2020 Upon arrival at Esdrujulópolis, the fantastic academics meet a guardian who guards the entrance. To get him to pass, they must dedicate five adjectives to him that say something good about him.
Can you think of one? pic.twitter.com/V6M5QQTVHQ
The entity has a new game scheduled for Saturday, April 4. In this case, he will propose on Twitter a series of linguistic riddles that, as Verne advanced , are presented as an “inverse escape room , that is, instead of having to escape from a place, you have to lock yourself up at home”.
The RAE explains that it will launch similar initiatives while the confinement lasts. In addition to these specific publications, it has also reinforced its network content, with actions such as the word of the day, in which they provide some grammar or etymology data for a word selected by lexicographers at the Institute of Lexicography.
# WordOfDay | nibelung, ga
The common names that designate classes of mythological beings are written with lowercase: "the nibelungen", "the graces" ... The names of mythological objects are also lowercase: "the ring of the nibelungen", "the golden fleece" … Pic.twitter.com/Ao9OH95fwq
In case you feel like giving a review of some of the topics that the RAE is about, we have prepared a test right here with some of your questions and others that are completely different (in total, 20). Between his tests and ours there is a good time of confinement.
If you have been wanting more:
Fundéu is a foundation that works advised by the Royal Spanish Academy to promote a good use of Spanish in the media. These days it gives alternatives to anglicisms like lockdown . In addition, this Saturday he published on his website a test somewhat removed from current events, dedicated to language and spring. Fundéu's weekly recommendations are also available on an EFE Radio podcast.
Del castellano is a website dedicated to the history of Spanish. He is also on Twitter, where he shares other articles on the language, and has his podcast.
Professor Don Pardino shares bullets with linguistic recommendations on Twitter. This teacher and doctor, the author of the calendar so as not to commit more faults, for example. Also on Instagram.
Lingua Mater: tips and etymologies on Instagram.
With the language out is a podcast of linguistic dissemination.
In Etymologies they tell us the origin of a word in each tweet.
Wordrandom tweets a word from the SAR dictionary randomly every hour, with its definition.
In English is All Things Linguistic, the blog of Gretchen McCulloch, author of Because Internet, a book we already talked about in Verne. McCulloch is co-host of the Lingthusiasm podcast.
At Verne we also write the language from time to time, often with tests. These are the ones we published last year, with a brief theoretical introduction to each one.
- Duty or duty of?
- Are you sure or sure that? Queísmos y dequeísmos
- Will he be right or will they be right?
- The water or the water?
- Yes or no?
- Why "why" and not "why" or "why"?
- Infinitive or imperative?
- Behind me or behind me?
- Leism, laism or loism?
- Alone or only? Words that no longer have a tilde.
- Paddle or paddle? Foreigners.
- To see and to have
- Final exam
And our resident philologist is Lola Pons, who writes periodical articles on all kinds of issues related to the language.
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