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How do you say DOBLE PERSONALIDAD in English?

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Jim Carrey's expressions say it all. Double Personality? It's a possibility but not the most common term to describe this problem. It is defined as a condition that causes a person to behave in different ways at different times as though there were two or three people (in some cases even more) inhabiting the same body.  In Spanish we call it "complejo de doble personalidad" which is not accurate since a person with this disease may have more than two personalities. In fact, there are cases of people having up to one hundred different personalities.   The most common way to refer to this problem in English is SPLIT PERSONALITY. It is also called Multiple Personality disorder but apparently the right way to refer to it is Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID). The cause of this disorder: child abuse, sadly a fact common to all those who suffer DID. 

What's a LEGHORN in Spanish?

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This one is not so easy to translate because a LEGHORN is chicken but not any kind of chicken. This specific breed comes originally from Italy and was imported in the XIX century to The United States. Soon, farmers there began breeding them because LEGHORNS were and are good layers. The chicken commonly found in Ecuador is not the same as in the U.S.. To start with LEGHORNS mostly lay white eggs whereas our chicken lay light brown eggs. In spite of their  shell color eggs taste the same. LEGHORN eggs can only be found in certain markets because their introduction in this part of the world happened only recently and so they are not as widespread.