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Saying "Residentialization" in Maspalomas is incorrect

Saying "Residentialization" in Maspalomas is incorrect

Dácil Santana Sunday, October 30, 2022

The thing is, what they bring are misfortunes for the residents of the south of Gran Canaria. even to speak. The abuseability of words to define a tourist market in Tirajana already uses formulas with archisyllables with the transversalization of communicativeness, in which case verbalization should be internalized as inoperative. That is to say: it is incorrect to say residentialize. You have to use a residential area and that's it. Any day someone will say "we have to reset the residential nature of tourism" and there will be a big fight in Tunte. If you add to residentialization that there are foreigners using this word, the cocktail leaves Spanish defenseless as a major language in the south of the island when it comes to speaking so that people understand what is being said. An idea already starting to invent words: apartmentize or apartmentize, councilize or gerintificalize.


The battle between the residents of Tirajana to avoid having to bear the costs of putting up with people living in tourist areas, with owners from Las Palmas, has brought about an unspeakable word: residentialization. The first to implement it in the debate were the architects when talking about obsolete shopping centers. What is residentialization? First of all, a kick to the dictionary. A way of appearing to have knowledge of something. According to Professor Aurelio Arteta, the word is what is called an archisyllabic adverb (there are around 150) and is not included in the dictionary. The verbs from which some terms are derived have their presence in the RAE dictionary, others do not.

This is where, for example, 'summarize' and 'summarized' come in: a computer anglicism that in Spanish is 'summarize' and 'summarized'. The RAE dictionary does not include archisyllables because it is a prefixed word (archi-), and in the dictionary it is impossible for all the terms formed by affixation to be included; and in the second, perhaps, because it corresponds to technical linguistic jargon. Then, that's when you hear things like internationalized tourist offer, hindering bureaucracy, professionalized tourist promotion or offer of conduit apartments. There is a past participle based on an adjective (I do not indicate its infinitive) globalized, individualized, hierarchical, personalized or summarized. But invent verbs like opening instead of opening, compartmentalizing instead of compartmentalizing, connecting instead of connecting, marginalizing instead of marginalizing or residentializing instead of residing. Just like revisiting subjectivizing instead of subjectivizing or substantializing instead of substantiating.

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