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I wouldn't call the German grammar "crappy" - in fact it has a kind of internal logic that makes sense. It's, erm, organised. It's also rather hard to learn, and complicated. I'm very glad I learned German at school, because I would probably never have attempted it later in life, voluntarily. That said, there must be even more complicated grammars out there - a Lithuanian friend told me they have no less than seven cases, nominative, genitive, dative, accusative, instrumental, locative, and vocative. It does sound discouraging for a potential student of the language...
About embarazada... I wonder about the history of this peculiar meaning in Spanish. Maybe pregnancy is (or was) in some cases considered embarrassing? (Like out of wedlock?) It is interesting that it's not used for (other) animals.
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