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Why does Spanish have obsolete tenses?

Spanish does not have obsolete tenses except the future subjunctive which is not particularly worthy of note (its almost identical to the past subjunctive with a vowel switch). … In fact, I would go as far as saying that Spanish uses all of its tenses quite profusely - unlike French, Italian where there are quite a number of tenses which are semi-obsolete and native speakers struggle …
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Why is Spanish SVO and not VSO?

Spanish is not fully an SVO language - in fact medieval Spanish has been categorized by some linguists as a VSO language. … This is not how you guys are taught Spanish. But its how we speak. …
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Where did Spanish get its /x/? Arabic influence?

Its ironic that people think the |x| sound in Spanish is Arabic influence when it is precisely this sound which makes it so difficult to recognize the Arabic influence in Spanish lexicon. … are so many arabic words in Spanish which in Arabic are pronounced with a "sh" sound or an English/French "j" sound but were substituted for the Spanish J which sounds like a |x|. …
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