Clarissa's Blog

My students are the best. When they read a short story where Juanita marries Pedro Martinez Gomez, it’s easier for them to conclude that Juanita married two men at the same time than that Pedro, like most Spanish speakers, calls himself by both his mother’s and his father’s last names.

As you might remember, I already had a similar problem with the Spanish philosopher who’d had the brilliant idea to go by the name “Ortega y Gasset.”