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In this, Argentina's no different than any other state, worldwide. The laws may change from place to place, but human nature in the aggregate remains constant.

The lowish mountains around Tandil are so gentle that, probably, no guide is needed.

Having subscribed to and read publications of that circle for nearly thirty years, off and on, I'm saddened: I find that trumpetting such a development almost always indicates that prices are inflated and that the enjoyability of the area is quickly diminishing.

Not to pick on any fellow poster (so this excerpt from another thread in this forum will remain unattributed) but, rather, to show friend Napoleon that another apparent lack of numerical agreement is increasingly common in American English (and this, for reasons no wiser than those offered by...

'Can't say that I've ever enjoyed the linguistic dabblings of the Latinizers. As for the rest of their writings, though: many a lovely summer's afternoon. And, no, though some well-educated Argentines do speak and write good English, the usual level seems to be about that of the typical...

That's to accord with what's called a "collective noun" (e.g., "the society have commenced their annual meeting"). Its use antedates our American ignorance of the collective noun and, instead, insistence upon a strict plural (thank the British "Latinizers" of three centuries ago for that...

Not specifically, but I'd suggest 'phoning the Hospital Británico in C.F. As all their professional staff speak English (I'm told), they may be able to make referrals to an English-speaking gynaecologist nearer you.

A former historian, I find an ominous parallel between the United States today and the Roman empire in the West, sixteen hundred years ago. Despite occasional brave talk as more and more Teutonic tribesmen walked, rode, and drove across the northern borders of the empire, despite resentment...

So I've heard.

I'll be interested in learning what you discover, Jim. The screens always offer dollars, but the few times I've tried to get delivery, no go. Porteño friends have told me that the supposed choice is simply a relic of pre-latest-crisis days.

¡Ja! Yes, of course any modern tailcoat is "cut away". 'Probably one reason why the word "cut-away" seldom is used nowadays, as by rational linguistic analysis alone it'd be as applicable to evening dress as to morning dress. By the way, though the photo's too blurry to be certain, the lapel...

Interesting. Perhaps it's comparable to sale of massmade clothing in the States, where sometimes evening dress, morning dress, and dinner jackets are all aggregated as "tuxes" (though, in English, a "tuxedo" is actually just a type -- double-breasted, peak-lapelled -- of dinner jacket). Or...

'Not certain, but . . . I think that a frac is "morning dress" ("swallowtail", "cut-away" coat). I'll try to check that out the next time I speak with a tailor in Bs.As. Yes, a dinner jacket is either esmoquin or smoking.

I think that traje de etiqueta is "white-tie" (i.e., full evening dress) and that smoking is indeed "black-tie" (dinner jacket, or "tuxedo"). If you've at least a few days in Bs.As., "ckjb", consider having a tailor make the dinner jacket and trousers for you. It's not terribly expensive and...

I thought that you'd offered to tell us the name of your pre pago, "sergio".

Good points, "Ries". But as Mr. Obama is a loyal partisan of the same political party that perpetrated these crimes (and continues to perpetrate some of them) and claims its turf as his hometown, it's not altogether unreasonable that an observer should suspect him of the same tendencies, is it?

'Too bad I can't post sounds, Matt! I'd applaud! Thanks, from this fourteenth-generation American, for an assessment both kind and accurate.

BigBad correctly esteems American exports to be mostly popular music and film, in my opinion. I, however, don't see this as American imperialism, but, rather, as an indication of what pleases many a young person worldwide (after all, he or she could have chosen to read Borges or watch Strindberg).

Two different cosas here, "hyper". "French" is an ethnicity as well as a citizenship, a true nationality, so, yes, you may be correct in saying that a person doesn't become French with French citizenship. Both the United States and Argentina are, by contrast, composite states, formed by settlers...

Are you serious, "hyper"? Buenos Aires was among the first of the world's major cities to have potable (even tasty!) tap water. There may well be tiny villages in the Argentine countryside where drinking from the tap is still questionable, but nowhere, I think, in greater Buenos Aires. You...