tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-416803281117127007.post1194764783409183525..comments2024-03-22T04:18:05.693-05:00Comments on notes on linguistic curiosities and oddities.: How Do You Pray In Spanish?Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-416803281117127007.post-70313661830971790352023-06-30T21:34:20.323-05:002023-06-30T21:34:20.323-05:00Oh I love this. Am learning Spanish and some words...Oh I love this. Am learning Spanish and some words are kind of confusing to beginners. Haha. Thanks for sharing your thoughts on this. I also would like to include rogar in there somewhere. But yeah your explanation is informative enough. Thanks again!Lucy Stephaniehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07151472337018494272noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-416803281117127007.post-74026723330427225172017-06-02T13:53:59.185-05:002017-06-02T13:53:59.185-05:00Thank you for your article... it offers some clari...Thank you for your article... it offers some clarification for me, yet also a point of confusion in regards to your main conclusion about the difference between the verbs. You say that orar denotes the free-style prayer of Protestants... but also that orar is the more formal of the two.<br /><br />I do not see how this fits, because 'free-style prayer' is informal compared to FORMALIZED prayers that are recited from memory. Recitations have a set form... they are formal, and the feeling they provoke reflects this difference, compared to free-form (un-formed) prayer.<br />Joshuanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-416803281117127007.post-44610161350852153932014-03-11T08:18:30.894-05:002014-03-11T08:18:30.894-05:00"Except the noun prayer is oración. No two w..."Except the noun prayer is oración. No two ways about it. I never thought about the verb orar and the noun oración as being linked. That is, I never wondered why the verb was rezar and the noun wasn´t something similiar, like reza-cion or something. That should have turned on the lightbulb in my mind. Becuase reza-cion sounds a lot like recitation..."<br /><br />It's because the correspondent noun for rezar is <a href="http://lema.rae.es/drae/srv/search?id=zQj0HW2juDXX2YTQMOAN" rel="nofollow">rezo</a>.sreservoirhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12904235946556226087noreply@blogger.com