La palabra del día:
la babel, el babel
Pronunciación aproximada:
bah-VEHL (The second b in this word is pronounced somewhat like the English "v" but with the top teeth touching the lower lip instead of the two lips touching. Note that the L of Spanish is pronounced like the first "l" in "little," not the second one.)Listen
Significado:
bedlam, chaos, a place marked by chaos, a place where there's much talkiung but little understanding, mixture of languages
Ejemplo:
¿Entiende ahora el lector las proporciones cabalísticas de mi confusión, la babel comunicativa en que vivo?
Traducción:
Does the reader now understand the mysterious proportions of my confusion, the infectious bedlam in which I live?
Aviso:
This is a noun of ambiguous gender. Either gender usage is acceptable, although the feminine is more common.
