darkmorgado wrote:Interesting fact for you. In Spain and Portugal. "America" is Central and South America, and "Americans" are people from those countries. They refer to the USA and Canada as "Norte Americano" (iirc), i.e. North AmericaLeoliansBro wrote:Hello captain pedantry! Merry, erm, day after boxing day.
'Americans don't speak Spanish' squeaks in at the death for the 2012 Culturally Insensitive Award for Ignorance.
I was talking in general as the official language of the country, I'm not so stupid that I am unaware of the huge latino population.
But by the same yardstick, a similar "things that piss me off about UK slang" would ignore the fact we have a massive muslim population.
I'm talking, basically, about dominant lingual culture (or at least what is dominant in terms of overseas exposure to it)
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