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By Gerald Erichsen, About.com Guide to Spanish Language since 1998

Mexican columnist points to illogic of Spanish

Saturday December 13, 2003
Let's be logical here: A person who drinks is a bebedor, and a place for drinking is a bebedero. So that means that a place where people eat is a comedero, and someone who eats is a comedor, right? Not quite, as columnist Ricardo Espinosa wrote recently in a column in El Milenio of Monterrey, Mexico. Read Espinosa's column about the illogic of the Spanish language...

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