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The Real Academia Española (Spanish for Royal Spanish Academy; often RAE) is the institution responsible for regulating the Spanish language. It is based in Madrid, Spain, but is affiliated with national language academies in 21 Spanish-speaking nations. This article is about the international language known as Spanish. ...
Coat of arms Plaza de España (Spain square) Madrid, the capital of Spain, is located in the center of the country at 40°25′ N 3°45′ W. Population of the city of Madrid proper was 3,093,000 (Madrilenes, madrileños) as of 2003 estimates. ...
This article is about the international language known as Spanish. ...
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The RAE has as its goal the preservation and continuity of the Spanish language, and as such is considered conservative. One description of its aim is "to assure that Spanish speakers will always be able to read Cervantes", but it also exercises a progressive influence in keeping the formal language up-to-date: one such step was its 1994 ruling that the Spanish consonants ch and ll would be alphabetized with c and l, respectively, and not as separate letters as in the past. Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (September 29, 1547 - April 23, 1616), was a Spanish author, best known for his novel Don Quixote de la Mancha. ...
1994 was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International year of the Family. ...
The Academy also watches small details, such as adding an accent in 1959 to the orthography of conjugations of reunir (to reunite) to ensure that the eu was not taken as a diphthong. 1959 was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
The RAE has a formal procedure for "admitting" words to the Spanish language and is a major publisher of dictionaries and grammars. Its website includes an online dictionary and many other resources, all in Spanish. ...
Grammar is the study of the rules governing the use of a language. ...
Criticisms of the Academy The Academy frequently receives criticism, particularly in the Americas, for being excessively conservative, elitist, and slow to change; excessively focused on usages found in the Madrid region and dismissive of variants found in other parts of Spain, let alone other countries; and excessively slow in revising its authoritative Dictionary of the Spanish Language. The dictionary is also the target of frequent criticisms for its imprecise, incomplete, archaic, and ideologically partial definitions and limited coverage. Supporters respond saying that RAE's purpose is not to register local or ephemeral uses of Spanish but to try and protect a united Spanish language and to prevent national variants from becoming incomprehensible to other Hispanics – a task in which RAE seems to be enjoying a degree of success. The Americas (sometimes referred to as America) is the area including the land mass located between the Pacific Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean, generally divided into North America and South America. ...
Conservatism or political conservatism is any of several historically related political philosophies or political ideologies. ...
Even most of the Academy's fiercest critics acknowledge that recent versions of the dictionary (the 20th and subsequent editions) have shown distinct improvements in this regard. One innovation that was particularly welcomed was its release in a paperback format in 1992. After partnerships with companies like Telefónica, IBM and Microsoft, the RAE is in the process of updating and adapting to the new information-technology era and now offers a free online version of its dictionary, which can be consulted at buscon.rae.es/diccionario/drae.htm. Paperback may refer to a kind of book binding by which papers are simply folded without cloth or leather and bound - usually with glue rather than stitches or staples - into a thick paper cover; or to a book with this type of binding. ...
1992 is a leap year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Telefónica S.A. (NYSE: TEF) (TYO: 9481) is the former national telephone network operator (telco) in Spain. ...
International Business Machines Corporation (IBM, or colloquially, Big Blue) (NYSE: IBM) (incorporated June 15, 1911, in operation since 1888) is headquartered in Armonk, New York, USA. The company manufactures and sells computer hardware, software, and services. ...
Microsoft Corporation, (NASDAQ: MSFT) headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA, was founded in 1975 by Bill Gates and Paul Allen. ...
Another criticism is the heavy statistical imbalance among male and female academicians. But this too has been improving since the fall of Franco. Francisco Franco Francisco Paulino Hermenegildo Teódulo Franco y Bahamonde Salgado Pardo de Andrade (December 4, 1892 – November 20, 1975), abbreviated Francisco Franco Bahamonde and sometimes known as GeneralÃsimo Francisco Franco, was dictator of Spain from 1939 until his death in 1975. ...
List of past and present academicians The Academy has académicos de número elected for life by the rest of the academicians from among prestigious Spanish authors. Each academician has a seat assigned, labelled with a letter of the Spanish alphabet (distinguishing upper case and lower case).
Past Camilo José Cela Trulock (May 11, 1916–January 17, 2002) was a Spanish writer. ...
Leandro Fernández de MoratÃn, born March 10, 1760 – died June 21, 1828, was a Spanish dramatist and neoclassical poet. ...
Present Spanish stamp (2002) tribute to Captain Alatriste Arturo Pérez-Reverte (b. ...
See also This is a list of bodies that regulate languages. ...
External link - RAE web site (in Spanish)
- A complaint on the coverage of zoology in the Diccionario de la Real Academia Española (in English)
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