I saw someone using “gloss” the other day and I’m just like *clenches fist* my power grows
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Did they pick it up from me? Did they derive it from the same root? A different root? LANGUAGE IS MAGIC
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So might as well note that the way I say “gloss” is because I got frustrated with there not being an English desglosar.
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And I’m habitually sloppy with my neologisms when it’s just for personal use, because
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Desglosar is translated as “to break down”, “itemize”, but people don’t use “itemize that for me” to mean “explain me this thing”.
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they do say "break down" to mean "explain" though
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also "analyze" is just "break down" in Greek
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there's also "unpack", but that's a bit academic jargon
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ironically closest to the physical gesture I mean when I say it, but that happens to me with jargon a lot
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I'm not sure that means what you mean though - "gloss" more means "interpret" than "explain"
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it's an academic version of what we'd colloquially call giving a "take" on something
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Ahh. Okay. I want… um… “Lay out the information you are working with that you had been referencing”?
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