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If you mean something has become timeless and is therefore never out of fashion then that is a CLASSIC  in English or Spanish (CLÁSICO).  e.g. Imagine  (the famous song by John Lennon)  When something or someone serves as a standard for others then it is called CLASSIC as well. e.g. Oliver Twist is a classic example of a social-oriented novel in the Victorian age. But if you mean a match between two rival teams that belong to the same city, a genuine cross-city rivalry, then CLASSIC is not the word to be used. DERBY game is more appropriate. e.g. Barcelona (Ecuador) - Emelec In Ecuador it is called The Shipyard Derby because both teams are based in a port-city, in a section of that city close to a shipyard. The shipyard has seen better days but the intensity of every edition of The Shipyard Derby has never decreased. There have been attempts to create other derby games in Ecuador but they have been fruitless and perhaps will continue so for a long time.  There is simp

¡Por fin! Let's face it: George Lucas is already too old and too tired for making more Star Wars movies or any movie for that matter. His last effort Red Devils did not receive the appreciation he felt it deserved. And he had confessed it once and again that making any of the Star Wars was every time, a titanic effort. We know that producing a movie, even a cheap one, is not easy. But still...how can you please a geek? How can you ask him not to dream or keep pushing for his dream movies to be made? That can't be. Lucas started a snowball in the seventies and then he wanted to walk away from it leaving us with the desire for more. That was a no-no. Of course his position is understandable. He is no longer the young visionary director that filmed Star Wars.  He probably wants and needs to rest and enjoy the rewards of his work. We could not really ask for more, could we? Luckily, Lucas decided to take steps to make sure that his legacy would endure. First, he named a new

Usually after we read in class a short article I ask my students what they think about it. After the customary embarrasing silence F, a boy, is the one who normally answers. After him S, another boy, has something to say as well. Their class is mostly made up by girls who surprisingly prefer to leave the boys the chances to show off. A and M are two of those girls. They all have a good command of English and can easily engage in a conversation if this one doesn't get too technical at some point. I´m aware of that and that is why we talk about topics more connected with every day life than anything else. However, if I am not careful enough the results can be as unexpected as in the dialog below. T: So class, what do you think about the article we just read? F: It says Love can be a problem if it interferes with your studies! T: Well, yes and no. What the author really means is... F: But it can be a problem if your girlfriend wants to be with you all the time. T: That'

There are so many diseases. Some of them have been with us for millenia, literally, and others are relatively recent like AIDS for example. Their names sometimes are similar in both languages and sometimes different. Especially when diseases are very old their names tend to be different, but if they are somewhat modern then their names in English and Spanish are similar. For purposes of this article I will refer to the most commonly known  diseases, that is diseases that we all know and can easily identify and whose presence is sadly wides´read. They are the following: Spanish                               English Cáncer                               Cancer Gripe                                 The Flu Leucemia                            Leukemia Lepra                                 Leprosy Malaria                               Malaria Sarampión                          Measles Tifoidea                             Typhoid Viruela                            

We know the word Less as the opposite to the comparative More, but there is one other usefor that term. The word Less can be used as a suffix, e.g. HOMELESS. When used as a suffix the word Less means WITHOUT (SIN in Spanish). In other words when you say someone is HOMELESS what you are doing is to indicate that someone is WITHOUT HOME (SIN HOGAR in Spanish). We don't have any suffix in Spanish that works the same way as Less does, so when translated. words using the suffix Less find their counterparts use prefixes with a similar meaning as Less or there is not one word to act as equivalent so more than one word is needed.    Here is a list to illustrate my point: English                                 Spanish Fruitless                               Sin resultados Merciless                              Inmisericorde Penniless                              Sin un centavo Restless                                Incansable Speechless                            S

Halloween time.  Is there a best time to talk about the writer that made perhaps the most to give the literature of horror some of its greatest pieces ever? And that for sure is Edgar Allan Poe, the Bostonian born on January 19, 1809. He did not write Frankestein or  Dracula and still that was not necessary to make him the indisputable recipient of the "Master of Horror" title. The author of short stories such as MS. Found in a Bottle, The Black Cat, The Facts in The Case of Mister Valdemar, The Fall of The House of Usher, The Premature Burial, The Masque of the Red Death ventured   also into poetry with The Raven and  Annabel Lee. He is considered the creator of detective stories with The Murders in the Rue Morgue and  The Purloined Letter and even Science Fiction The Unparalleled Adventures of Some Hans Pfall.  His only novel is one of sea adventures, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket, which describes one of the most disturbing passages I have ever r

Yes, she is and so is Barack Obama or Rafael Correa. The word ruler in this case stems from the verb Rule which means to exercise dominating power or influence; to govern in other words. The translation into Spanish would be REGIR so the noun Ruler is Regidor, aquel que gobierna generalmente algún tipo de territorio con autonomía jurídica . The extent of that power and authority is limited by the source of that power. In the case of constitutional presidents that power comes from the people and is limited by what they may decide (or at least that is the idea).  That explains why the words Rule and Ruler are not usually associated to that term.  That is not the case with Kings or Emperors whose power and authority supposedly  is conferred  by God himself so the word Ruler is more appropriate in this case.  So here a Ruler, if not used as the instrument to measure lenght, then is the one who governs a country. Queen Elizabeth II is a Ruler and so were his predecessors and perhaps