Palabras cultas, divertidas y un poco raras

Become a member of the channel to enjoy exclusive benefits:    / @blogdelengua   Visit the Language Blog website to write better: https://blog.lengua-e.com/ Hi, I'm Professor Alberto Bustos, and I'm here to talk about some cultured, fun, and slightly strange words, just like the select audience of the Language Blog. Join me! When we think of cultured consonant clusters, words like obstruct, constipated, obtain, act, action, adjacent, unknown, cryptic, athlete, etc. come to mind. They all have in common that the cultured consonant cluster is located within the word. These consonant clusters are one of the difficulties of language. Most people don't know what to do with them, and that constantly generates mistakes and doubts. The source of this mess? At the beginning of the 18th century, His Bourbon Majesty King Philip V founded the Royal Spanish Academy. You already know that Philip V was the first monarch of the Bourbon dynasty. He was the grandson of Louis XIV of France and brought French institutions and customs to this incorrigible peninsula. The term "incorrigible peninsula" comes from Juan Goytisolo. I think the expression is brilliant, so I'm borrowing it; but quoting, of course, to each his own! One of the measures adopted by Philip V during his reign was to found the Royal Spanish Academy as a Hispanic version of the French Academy, which he knew well because he had grown up in France. And the learned house, as it is known, attempted to reverse the clockworks of the language in the case of educated consonant clusters. Its success was partial. This explains the panorama of widespread disarray and confusion we can observe today regarding these consonant sequences. Another day I'll go into the details of the maneuver of replacing learned consonant clusters, because it's juicy. Today, what I'm interested in is addressing certain learned clusters that are less ignored, but that also have substance. What these clusters have in common is that they appear at the beginning of a word, not inside it. Of course, this is overdoing it. It's going up a notch in the level of difficulty. I've already mentioned that those that appear inside words, which are the typical ones, drive half of Spanish-speaking humanity crazy. Imagine then what can happen with those that appear at the beginning of words, and, moreover, in learned, very learned words. Enroll now in the course "El punto sobre la i" to level up your writing: https://blog.lengua-e.com/el-punto-so...