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Monday, December 21, 2020

El Pais Strikes again...

 "Como casi todos los madrileños, Trapiello no nació en Madrid, sino en León."

What the sentence is meant to say is that many people who live in Madrid were born elsewhere in Spain. What it says on the literal level is that almost all people living in Madrid were born in León. 

If almost everyone in Madrid was born somewhere else, that must mean that almost all the babies born in Madrid go somewhere else to live, which I seriously doubt.  

2 comments:

Vance Maverick said...

Or that the population of Madrid is growing rapidly, so that each native child is matched by two or more migrants.

Jonathan said...

Even a two-thirds majority doesn't add up to "almost all."