We all have demons with which we must deal. And
when you talk about the demons behind our language, one of those who crawl more
often than we think is the way to correctly write or tell demoniac or name in
a translation project or an interpretation session. In Spanish, there are
many ways to write a generalities. We rely on a series of suffixes to
refer properly to the nationality of a person, place of origin, or to refer to
the inhabitants of a place.
As with most of the grammatical rules,
there are always exceptions when it comes to the creation of a gentile. Some
of these suffixes are: Anon / to (as in Bolivian/a, Romano/a),-ion / to (as in
Parisian/a, Argentine/a), eon/a (as in Brazilian/a, Caracas/a)-ens (as in
Coats Rice, Canadian), is / that (French / sea, Danish / that),-eon / to
(Slovenian, Chilean / )-i (as in Saudi, Bengali) e - its (Vietnamese,
Muscovite). Then come the irregular or exceptions to the rule: Monaco /
(from Monaco), Paraguayan/a, Belgian, Russian, Swedish/a, for example.
Now, the real demons appear when we look
for the demon ism or adjective for people from a specific city. This is
difficult for the majority of the citizens of countries where the same language
is spoken so imagine reach them when a translation is made, or provide with the
name at the time during a session of interpretation. A although that might
not be so common saying "I'm a Birmingham" (from Birmingham,
Alabama), are terms that we have to be aware under certain circumstances. These
are just some of them: in Latin America, you memos to the Asuncion (Asuncion,
Paraguay), from (from San Juan, Puerto Rico), San Juan (of San Juan,
Argentina), Josefina (San Jose ed Coats Rita) and the Managua (neutral use for
the inhabitants of the) namesake city).
In Europe they have it so easy either. We
have the Lisbon (from Lisbon), Liverpudlians/as (to give you a clue, the
Beatles are Liverpudlian), holiness (from Stockholm), so iota (of... Yes,
Sofia, Bulgaria).
It seems as if the demon isms were a
minefield, but are necessary demons that we have to know and be on our side if
the final battle happens.
