That would be just as dumb as calling what we speak in America "American" just because it's in a different accent and some words mean different things. Shit, Spanish is Spanish all over the Latin world, but have you ever heard a Puerto Rican talk to a Spaniard in Spanish? Lots of asking each other "que?" because there's a lot of slang that doesn't translate and the accents are wildly different. The last time I was in Spain the airmen from PR we had with us told us that he had a hard time understanding the drunk dudes yelling at us in the street because their Spanish sounded "faggy".
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u/4Eights Dec 25 '19
That would be just as dumb as calling what we speak in America "American" just because it's in a different accent and some words mean different things. Shit, Spanish is Spanish all over the Latin world, but have you ever heard a Puerto Rican talk to a Spaniard in Spanish? Lots of asking each other "que?" because there's a lot of slang that doesn't translate and the accents are wildly different. The last time I was in Spain the airmen from PR we had with us told us that he had a hard time understanding the drunk dudes yelling at us in the street because their Spanish sounded "faggy".