Spanish C2 · Day 7
Day 7: Testimonios y credibilidad judicial — The expletive no in Spanish
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- Grammar: The expletive no in Spanish
- Reading: La persistencia en el estrado
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Grammar point: The expletive no in Spanish
Expressions such as «hasta que no», «por poco no» and «más de lo que no» let a «no» appear without denying the subordinate event. Its understood role is structural, not a further denial by the witness or the court. In «La testigo no firmó hasta que no leyó el acta» the reading itself is not negated.
Key vocabulary (8 of 32 words)
- la injusticia epistémica – epistemic injustice; unfair treatment of someone as a knower
- el déficit de credibilidad – credibility deficit
- el exceso de credibilidad – credibility excess
- la brecha hermenéutica – gap in shared concepts for understanding an experience
- la condición de testigo – bearing witness; the position of a witness
- la apreciación del testimonio – assessment of testimony (legal)
- la idea preconcebida – prior assumption
- el sofisma – fallacy; invalid inference
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