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Hey, dumbfucks. The singular for tamales is just tamal. Stop with this "tamale" bullshit.
Sincerely: A mexican who's bothered with english speakers ignoring how spanish works
"Tamale" is perfectly fine to say in English. Like how it's grammatically correct to say "el jogging" or "los hippys" in Spanish. Loanwords aren't misspelled foreign words, they're legitimate parts of a language's vocabulary regardless of the rules of the language or origin.
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nice outfit LOSER. 1443 called but in a dialect of Early Modern English that hadn't experienced the Great Vowel Shift yet so i don't know what it said
a really really really underrated feeling in learning a different language is when you start to hear words. as in it's no longer a string of sounds, you can parse through where words start and stop as you're hearing them. even words that you don't know what they mean yet but you can distinctly hear it as a whole word
Instead of teaching me Spanish teach me the uh prefixes and suffixes then I could probably figure it out. I want to know the patterns. Is adora or ador like er? Tell me because my depressed Spanish teacher wont
Yes it is... kind of! -dor(a) turns a verb into an agent, or a word that performs the action. This can be an adjective or a noun. For example, "trabajador" can mean "worker" or "hard-working".
my hips don't lie but they will exaggerate details, misrepresent the facts, and on occasion deceive via omission of crucial information
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happy lunar new year. gallops away on a beautiful horse and breaks all our legs
Argot
Today I learned from a book about "español coloquial" that Spanish has also "Argot". I believed it was just a French sociolect similar to the German "Rotwelsch".
In the book it is used as a synonym for "español coloquial", but wikipedia left the impression on me, that it is something else entirely. Like a secret language used by those, who are interested in communicating secretive.
An argot is a specialized vocabulary used within a specific group, with the words typically being representative of the group. Lunfardo and Caló are probably the most well-known Spanish argots.
The Spanish word for puzzle is so fucking badass bro "rompecabezas"
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Fyi if you go to Argentina looking for a jigsaw puzzle and ask for a "rompecabezas", they will look at you strangely and ask if you mean "puzle". And you will be filled with sorrow because "rompecabezas" is so much cooler of a word than "puzle" and you worked really hard to memorize that vocabulary word when you were 12.
(They didn't even have puzles at that shop)
i was fucking around on the spanish keyboard i have downloaded on my laptop and i find out they have ç on it. thats both cool as fuck and confusing. why is that there, what use has it in spanish.
It's used in minority languages spoken in Spain, most notably Catalan and Occitan. It's also been used historically in Old Spanish and Galician.
For the same reason (at least on the Windows Spain keyboard) you can type a grave accent, interpunct, and circumflex, despite them not appearing in Spanish. You can also type a tilde over vowels, used in many languages indigenous to the Americas.
I don't know if I already said this here but I hate spanish speaker characters on the USA TV shows.
Don't get me wrong. I'll explain.
Most of the time it's Mexican representation. I don’t know if all of them have Mexican blood or not, but that's how they're portrayed.
What I hate is the fact that they are supposed to be native Mexican characters and speak spanish as a first language but it's so obvious to me that this actors have english as first language.
The spanish is really good in most cases (some are real bad) but it's easy to tell from the gringo accent in their spanish.
It's annoying because for english speakers it's no different from a native spanish speaker. If they don't know spanish they don't know the difference. They don't understand and it just sound like spanish anyway.
But for ME it's awful because the accent makes it impossible to understand sometimes.
I was born speaking spanish (I'm from Chile) and grew up watching telenovelas mexicanas (they are really popular in Latinoamérica) and it's frustrating when I can't understand spanish cause the pronunciation sucks and I have to read subtitles for my own language.
And they exaggerate the spanish so much it sounds so fake to me sometimes...
I'm just sharing some thoughts.
I'm not heating people just bad spanish.
Don't hate me.
Don't come here to fight.
I'm the only one to notice this?
Oh, this came to mind because I'm watching The X-Files and this episode is about immigrants (4x11) and I notice the annoying spanish again.
I watched Breaking Bad 10 years ago and since then have greatly improved my Spanish, lived abroad, and gotten a degree in Hispanic Studies. I can't watch it anymore because their American accents are so abrasive it completely pulls me out of it.
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Probably hot take: in spanish neopronouns are practically unfunctional, in the sense that they're really hard to use so few people do (I personally don't know anyone). This being for the way the language is shaped.
If anyone has a way of saying these words in spanish (words outside of neopronouns that are consequential of those pronouns) or an alternative for this problem, I'd be glad to hear it.
In spanish almost every adjective and variable word has a gender morpheme. This means that you have "guapo/guapa", for example. There's already a huge, and I mean huge, and humiliated argument about using neutral pronouns ("guape"), this being for non-binary people or, as many people (in my opinion, mistakenly) have used them, for when there's both women and men (in spanish the plural for words referring to people is masculine unless they're all women).
This being said, adapting every word to a neo-morpheme would be impossible to pronounce in most cases. Is not that people would make fun of it (that's not really a problem here), is that in most cases it's consonant-consonant ("guapx") and it isn't only changing pronouns, is changing the whole vocabulary to a type of language that no one uses and is mostly really hard to pronounce, many times uncomprehensible. That's a problem that trans people with more standarized pronouns don't have, for their words are already used in everyday life.
This is a struggle that isn't so common at all in english and therefore it makes so much sense that something like a neo-pronoun has flourished in a language in which the commonly used words don't change with the person's gender.
Now, if y'all make a new type of language in spanish adding a whole new form of pronouncing words that people can understand, you have my respect.
The one non-binary Latin American I know is from northern Argentina, and just uses both pronouns (i.e., you could call him "guapo" or "guapa"). Being that her area isn't very progressive, this was much easier to implement and use daily than a neutral neologism.
So much of the world's "riches" came from Latin America that it really makes the mind dizzy. You see all those palaces in Austria and you would think they are as far from Bolivia as possible and then you remember that the Austrian Habsburgs ruled the Spanish Empire and partook of the loot of the silver and gold from the Americas. You see the cuisine of Europe, Asia and Africa completely changed by American crops to the point that many don't even remember where they came from. Silver from Potosí found its way from China to Sweden. All the world was enriched, directly or not, while the Americas were plundered. When you really realize the scale of it, the entire line of history bends around it.
For comparison, the map of geolocated Wikimedia elements vs map of the Catalan Countries:
Catalan was the 3rd Wikipedia to be created (after English and German) but, even though German Wikipedia website had been created, it didn't have any articles for a while. For this reason, Catalan Wikipedia was the 2nd Wikipedia in the world with articles.
Since its creation in 2001, the Catalan community has been one of the most active Wikipedia communities in the world with the objective of making reliable information in our language freely available to anyone. In 2010, the Catalan Wikipedia became the first version of Wikipedia to rank high quality in all the articles of Wikipedia’s List of Articles All Languages Should Have, reaching this milestone even before English. It has also been awarded many other times for its high quality articles.
Thank you to everyone who contributes!
I've been told by the Spanish speakers on my life that they can't understand Bad Bunny written or spoken lyrics. Any Spanish speakers wanna expand on this?
@t3nso @techimproper
Spoken PR Spanish deletes a lot of sounds, like shortening "todos los" to "to'los" and skipping the syllable final /s/ (e.g. pronouncing "pistolas" as "pistola'"). This makes words flow into each other easier, meaning people can speak very quickly as compared to other accents. It also, like all dialects, has distinct slang and terms that speakers of other dialects will have trouble with, including a lot of anglicisms from contact with the US.
This will, of course, vary by speaker. PR Spanish is similar to Cuban and Dominican Spanish, so those speakers will have an easier time understanding.
Is there anyway you can explain their inability to understand and read the written spanish? They are both Spanish first language. Is it the slang or something else?
Slang could definitely be part of it, along with non-jargon regional variations in vocabulary (like how "vest" has different meanings in the US than the UK and Ireland).
Keep in mind as well that this is music. It may contain figurative language, allusions to pop culture/history, and figures of speech, all which can vary by culture and will make it harder to understand. That is, while your friends might recognize the words written down, they might not understand the meaning when it's all put together.
I've been told by the Spanish speakers on my life that they can't understand Bad Bunny written or spoken lyrics. Any Spanish speakers wanna expand on this?
@t3nso @techimproper
Spoken PR Spanish deletes a lot of sounds, like shortening "todos los" to "to'los" and skipping the syllable final /s/ (e.g. pronouncing "pistolas" as "pistola'"). This makes words flow into each other easier, meaning people can speak very quickly as compared to other accents. It also, like all dialects, has distinct slang and terms that speakers of other dialects will have trouble with, including a lot of anglicisms from contact with the US.
This will, of course, vary by speaker. PR Spanish is similar to Cuban and Dominican Spanish, so those speakers will have an easier time understanding.
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Unpopular opinion, but the videos on languages and how similar or different they are tend to be a bit... superficial? Like when they have the romance languages all together and they choose the most basic words and they are like woooow they sound soooo similar! Like no shit 😒 or the people they pick for these videos are not exactly the brightest and they ignore the existence of synonyms and only pick one word and BAM! Suddenly, bye bye, similarities!
Don't forget the opposite, when they say "Wow, these dialects are so different they should be considered separate languages!" and specifically choose the few words that vary the most. Like yeah, there's tons of ways to say "cool" or "straw" in Spanish, but 99% of the time speakers of different dialects can understand each other.
Piping hot take: I don't give a shit if straight actors play queer characters as long as they do so with empathy and authenticity. When you say shit like "only queer actors should play queer characters" what you're actually saying is only OUT queer actors should play queer characters. If you're assuming an actor (or anyone else, for that matter) who hasn't declared their sexuality is straight, you are participating in heteronormativity.
you're also saying that you, as an audience member, are entitled to private and intimate details of actors' personal lives, fwiw.
if you ever read any interview with Tim Curry, he's always very clear about finding this absurd. we all pretty much assume Tim Curry is queer, but we'll never know, because he has absolutely point-blank refused to discuss his dating life with the public or the media, because it's nobody's business but his (and anyone he's dating ofc).
it's also like--
some of you younger folk really need to go watch the documentary on Paul Reubens. "Peewee as Himself." Like, the context might help a little? for why so many of us who grew up before Obergefell et al really, really, really fucking hate this narrative where the public has a right to every single facet and detail of an actor's life? especially a queer actor?
actors, musicians, comedians, entertainers, etc., don't owe their audiences jack fucking shit about their personal lives. we can all get over that absurd entitlement any time.
Idk if this made it to English-speaking media but this was a topic a few years ago with the Netflix show Smiley. Gay Spanish actor Brays Efe took umbrage with four straight* actors playing gay characters. He retracted the complaint after backlash.
* Notably, one of the actors (Carlos Cuevas) previously played a bisexual man in Merlí, which spurned people to ask about his sexuality. He has not confirmed anything.
