On the subject of accents, I wanted to share what happened at the departmental outing we had today. My colleagues and I went to the best restaurant in town to celebrate the end of the semester. The waitress who served us is Mexican. She heard us speak Spanish and started guessing where everybody is from based on our accents.
“Mexican, Venezuelan, Brazilian, another Venezuelan or maybe Colombian. . .”
“So where am I from?” the colleague from Spain asked.
“Oh, you are a gringa,” the waitress answered immediately.
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What an interesting way to promote a website.
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Why remove such comedy gold from the Internet? Sometimes people have a crap day, and it helps to have something to laugh at.
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So many questions…
Why do you care what a private website runs?
What can change.org do? What legal power do they have to remove private web content? I notice the petition page says “2,343 NEEDED” needed for what?
And why give the site so much free publicity? Hosility doesn’t kill web sites, indifference does.
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“Hosility doesn’t kill web sites, indifference does.”
– Truer words were never spoken.
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Out of pure curiosity, where did she guess you were from? 😉
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“Oh, you are a gringa,” the waitress answered immediately.”
I wonder if it’s because someone using peninsular forms sounds artificial to latin americans (especially everyday people).
IME academic types from LA think peninsular forms are insufferable (and I had to get rid of mine when I spent a bunch of time around them).
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IME it´s the high school teacher types who feel that way … professors are beyond such things –.
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These weren’t language specialists in the main but mostly social scientists (in various fields and countries).
Living in Europe now after a mexican phase I’ve gone back to hardcore peninsular with distincion, vosotros, he dicho instead of dije. I’d like to go for lleismo but that seems to be a lost cause. Of course it’s mostly in my head since I’m hardly ever around spanish speakers at present…
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I’m a specialist in Peninsular literature who speaks with an Argentinean accent and never mastered “vosotros.” 🙂
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The colleague from Spain also looks like me: she is blonde, light-skinned and has blue eyes.
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Did the waiter guess you? 🙂
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This waiter knows me from before because I always hang out at that place, so in my case the experiment didn’t work. :-0
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“I’m a specialist in Peninsular literature who speaks with an Argentinean accent and never mastered “vosotros.” :-)”
What about vos?
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I really like the voseo. And I know many words in lumfardo. This is, of course, thanks to my friend Mafalda.
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