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When foreigners think you're from their country (pg. 4)
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| jonSun |
| quote: | Originally posted by Halcyon+On+On
Do people walk up to you and just start speaking in Swahili often though? |
Yes indeed. Swahili & Zulu all the time. I dont think they undertsand that most west side niggaz like myself only speak jive. |
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| Halcyon+On+On |
| Yeah but if they don't know, then now they know. |
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| Zild |
| quote: | Originally posted by floyd741
The only thing that really makes me mexican is the way I look, other than that I might as well be white lol. Basically, when I say I don't like mexicans I never really feel like I'm hating "my people" even though I guess technically I am.
What I really hate are mexican kids born and raised in the US (like myself) that mix spanish and english. That 's just annoying. |
That's just how we communicate with each other. Don't hate. |
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| floyd741 |
| quote: | Originally posted by Zild
That's just how we communicate with each other. Don't hate. |
si, I know. We all tenemos que talk like this, compadre. viva la raza and all that jazz. |
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| Zild |
| The more alcohol you get into me and the closer to the border I get I find that more Spanish starts to slip out. |
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| Lira |
| quote: | Originally posted by floyd741
si, I know. We all tenemos que talk like this, compadre. viva la raza and all that jazz. |
Actually, if you talk like this, it shows you're a pretty damn competent in both languages (if you weren't I bet you wouldn't have bothered to say "tenemos" instead of "tener"). There's this farmer I know that mixes Japanese and Portuguese frenetically as she speaks - it's unbelievably amazing (and rather hard to follow :p). |
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| Halcyon+On+On |
| quote: | Originally posted by Lira
Actually, if you talk like this, it shows you're a pretty damn competent in both languages (if you weren't I bet you wouldn't have bothered to say "tenemos" instead of "tener"). |
ORRRrrr you are just constantly, culturally surrounded by others who exhibit the exact same linguistic idiosyncrasies, and have been raised that way all of their lives.
//we don't need no tenses! |
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| Silky Johnson |
| quote: | Originally posted by Halcyon+On+On
Yeah but if they don't know, then now they know. |
Nigguuhhhhhhh. |
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| Zild |
| spanglish is just word swapping by people who were educated in english speaking schools and raised by spanish speaking adults |
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| Lira |
| quote: | Originally posted by Halcyon+On+On
ORRRrrr you are just constantly, culturally surrounded by others who exhibit the exact same linguistic idiosyncrasies, and have been raised that way all of your life. |
The environment does play a role - but, if he didn't speak Spanish at all, he wouldn't conjugate his verbs properly when he switched codes. And, if he didn't speak English properly... well, you get the picture. |
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| Renzo |
| quote: | Originally posted by Slylee
i have blonde hair and i'm fair skinned with some light freckles and i've had MANY cubans speak to me in spanish and assumed i was cuban when i was living in miami.
i thought they were nuts assuming i was spanish, but they would explain that there are a lot of light skinned/freckled cubans or argentinians too, which i didn't know. |
There are also hispanic people from Chile, Mexico, Peru, Colombia, Uruguay, Paraguay, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, etc, who look just like you.
Pretty much every latino country. |
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