OT: Spanish syntax & vocabulary

Wilson Gray hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Tue Apr 8 14:31:40 UTC 2008


Title of an Lp from ca.1957:

"Grandes _exitos de_ la Orquesta Aragón"

Title of a contemporary CD:

"Grandes _hits con_ la Orquesta Aragón"

The reason for the use of "hits" with _con_ instead of with _de_
defeats my meager knowledge of Spanish syntax.


-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die"---a strange complaint to
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