Post by: Nicolas Vercesi in Spanish
Etymology PlungeDabble Unlike in English, where SCUBA diver takes its name from a relatively modern acronym and a simple agent noun, its Spanish counterpart has a whole different story behind it. Let's take a brief look at it. Men have been diving underwater for ages, maybe as long as they have been using oxen for plowing the fields. But why…
Post by: Nicolas Vercesi in All Languages
Shortly after starting Scuba Translations and starting to delve (I will try to refrain from obvious puns as much as possible, at least in the first couple of sentences) in diving websites and literature, I ran into the first general English term that seems to bring a reluctancy to translation: The rebreather. This piece of equipment, most commonly used in…