First though, here's what I wrote back in the heat of last August ...
Here's what I hope might be a brilliant way of helping you all to remember the gender of those awkward nouns that don't end in -a or -o. I've given you a few pretty good ideas before, but this one is both do-able and, I hope, could be effective.
What we need is for some gullible sap sorry, author, to write a interesting, funny and clever story in which all the nouns are "masculine" ! And then write some more. And then get them published.
THEN he/she/it could do the same with some "feminine" stories.
And we would read them. And then , for example, when we wanted to use the word "muerte" we would remember that Eva ( fem) had beaten Hermalinda (fem) to "muerte"(fem) with a "sartén" ( fem) after catching her in a "red" (fem) at "medianoche" (fem) in that story in that book that only used feminine nouns. Simple.
Or, on the masculine side, if you wanted to remember the gender of "desván" you would recall that story where Mañuel ( masc) stole un bozón ( masc) , filled it full of turrón (masc) , tied a "reloj (masc) to it and hid it in his "desvan" (masc). Later he rubbed some "pastel" (masc) against un "árbol" (masc) and set fire to the bloody pajar ( masc).
The stories need to be strange, memorable, exciting and cheap!
So, somebody get doing it. In the interests of all us learners of Spanish, I hereby waive all rights to the idea, just as long as somebody gets on with it.
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OK .. that's was my ace idea .... but the other day I thought of a better way..... here we go ...
.. Well, I thought, maybe people weren't doing this because it was just too much work.Plus, doing a story like this as a novel would probably take up too much time.... so....why not do it as a collection of short stories by different authors ?
That way, the workload for each writer would be far less, there would be an interesting variety of styles and themes, and it could get done much more quickly too.
Plus, publicists could get a bit of mileage out of the idea of having a competition for people to try to work out which author wrote which story ....they could probably get a bit of mileage out of that.
There we go then .. this idea is fee for anyone interested in doing it .
And now, music with Rusos blancos ... no problems with gender there .... " Camas y trincheras" ...
las veces que te he mentido
sabes que no te han dolido
ni la mitad de lo que me dolieron a mí
El tiempo
que pasé contigo
pudo ser divertido
pero ya ves todo tiene su fin
todo tiene su fin
Tú siempre solías decir
el amor es la guerra
y nunca viste venir que pudieras
llegar a perderla
Tú siempre solías decir
mi cama es una trinchera
donde no hay sitio par ti
y ahora tu te mueres por que vuelva.
Habla mal de mi a tus amigos, soy el enemigo
al que siempre te quisiste rendir
El tiempo, que pase contigo
debió de ser divertido
por eso siempre vuelves a mí
Tú siempre solías decir
el amor es la guerra
y nunca viste venir que pudieras
llegar a perderla
Tú siempre solías decir
mi cama es una trinchera
donde no hay sitio par ti
y ahora tu te mueres por que vuelva.
(El amor es la guerra)
(Mi cama es una trinchera)
Tú siempre solías decir
el amor es la guerra
y nunca viste venir que pudieras
llegar a perderla
Tú siempre solías decir
mi cama es una trinchera
donde no hay sitio par ti
y ahora tu te mueres por que vuelva.