Mon Aug 07, 2017 3:18 pm
Mon Aug 07, 2017 6:31 pm
Captain90s wrote:"Speaks many languages such as Austrian, Mexican, and Arabic"
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"Mexican" is a national origin. "Spanish" is a language.
Mon Aug 07, 2017 6:56 pm
Tue Aug 08, 2017 9:05 am
Guntrader wrote:Mexicans don't speak actual 'Spanish'.
At MS they were referred to as 'the Spanish guys'. I said 'None of those guys have ever been to Spain'.
People that actually came from Spain had a hard time communicating with Mexicans.
In the Navy we had a Filipino that came from some mountain region, and not even the other Filipinos could understand what he was saying. So of course we always gave him a job that involved using the sound powered phones. Drove CIC nuts.
Tue Aug 08, 2017 10:16 am
Tue Aug 08, 2017 1:10 pm
cossijo wrote:Guntrader wrote:Mexicans don't speak actual 'Spanish'.
At MS they were referred to as 'the Spanish guys'. I said 'None of those guys have ever been to Spain'.
People that actually came from Spain had a hard time communicating with Mexicans.
In the Navy we had a Filipino that came from some mountain region, and not even the other Filipinos could understand what he was saying. So of course we always gave him a job that involved using the sound powered phones. Drove CIC nuts.
Thats not quite true, Its like saying Americans dont speak English, And people from England cant communicate with people from America. We might have different words for certain things and our slang and vernacular might be slightly different but we can communicate quite well with each other. I had no problem getting by with my not actual Spanish in Spain.
And to get nerdy on you, in Spain they call it Catellano. Same language different name.
Tue Aug 08, 2017 6:30 pm
hkcavalier wrote:People from Spain think of the Mexican accent/way of speaking much like folks from WA think of barefoot hillbillies in TN or AL. It can be hard to understand. This is coming straight from both Mexicans and native Spaniards.
Wed Aug 09, 2017 1:29 pm
PMB wrote:hkcavalier wrote:People from Spain think of the Mexican accent/way of speaking much like folks from WA think of barefoot hillbillies in TN or AL. It can be hard to understand. This is coming straight from both Mexicans and native Spaniards.
Mostly true. Spaniards seem to look down on all of Latin America's slight changes to the mother tongue...
I had a much harder time understanding speech in Colombia than I did in Spain. Now that is a drawl.
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Selador wrote:I expected this thread to be MUCH shorter...
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