Carlos Menem's dead

[Alby]

Nice! Thanks!!

This rule is, in fact, so little-known that only readers of this thread have access to it. I just asked ChatGPT for a list of palindromes in Spanish and the rule holds up in most cases of word of two syllables or more. It is my unique contribution to Spanish linguistics and I can die happy having discovered it.

 

[Ries]

I never heard one Argentine pronouncing that street the way you describe it. Everyone pronounces Billinghurst the same way here

I lived on Billinghurst for 16 years or so. Not a single neighbor, shopkeeper, taxista, or bus driver ever pronounced it that way. Sometimes they would call the band "Los Ramoanez", though.

 

[Alby]

I've lived on Ayacucho for 7 years. In all that time I doubt I've ever heard a neighbour, encargado, shopkeeper, taxi driver or bus driver, or anyone else say the street name. In these micro neighborhoods, most people know where they are. It's part of the charm. I think we are all imagining alot of things in this thread now. But I suppose I started it by inventing a fake stress rule for Spanish palindromes.

 

[Ries]

I've lived on Ayacucho for 7 years. In all that time I doubt I've ever heard a neighbour, encargado, shopkeeper, taxi driver or bus driver, or anyone else say the street name. In these micro neighborhoods, most people know where they are. It's part of the charm. I think we are all imagining alot of things in this thread now. But I suppose I started it by inventing a fake stress rule for Spanish palindromes.

I cant count the hundreds of times people ask me, de donde son, and I would answer, "billinghurst". a joke, because we would be in a store on billinghurst.
believe me, they would have corrected me if I was pronouncing it wrong.

they did for many other words, I learned a lot.
Plus, a hundred taxi drivers asked me where to.
and I said, Billinghurst.
And they knew exactly where it was.

I have even said "Ayacucho" to cab drivers, and they found that, too.

 

[Alby]

As a former Peruvian resident who has been to Ayacucho where a decisive independence battle was fought, I proudly pronounce it the Peruvian way to taxi drivers and they don't correct me. They just grunt and take me there.

 

[carride]

We watched the first season of "Menem" on HBO over 2-3 nights, his larger-than-life personality certainly comes through, and the first season deals with his first term as president, where generally everything is positive, and he eternally beams from the screen.

I could not find that on my HBO in Argentina. Do you know if it still available on HBO? Google only says Prime Video streaming.

Amazon.com

 

[Rich One]

There is a little-known stress rule for Spanish: when the word is a palindrome, the stress falls on the penultimate syllable.

For those of us not familiar with the word Palindrome
A palindrome is a word, phrase, name, or number that reads the same forward or backward (e.g., noon, 1001)

 

[Rich One]

I've lived on Ayacucho for 7 years. In all that time I doubt I've ever heard a neighbour, encargado, shopkeeper, taxi driver or bus driver, or anyone else say the street name. In these micro neighborhoods, most people know where they are. It's part of the charm. I think we are all imagining alot of things in this thread now. But I suppose I started it by inventing a fake stress rule for Spanish palindromes.

Correct way to pronounce Ayacucho ?? Go to Youtube

 

[FrankPintor]

I lived on Billinghurst for 16 years or so. Not a single neighbor, shopkeeper, taxista, or bus driver ever pronounced it that way. Sometimes they would call the band "Los Ramoanez", though.

Yes, we already had this conversation. You have your experience, I had mine.

 

[FrankPintor]

This rule is, in fact, so little-known that only readers of this thread have access to it. I just asked ChatGPT for a list of palindromes in Spanish and the rule holds up in most cases of word of two syllables or more. It is my unique contribution to Spanish linguistics and I can die happy having discovered it.

No serious linguists around here then, I shall have to bug the real ones over at WordReference.