I went to college with a Spanish guy, Milo I watched this exchange.
Girl: "What kind of Spanish are you?"
Milo: ...
Girl: "You know, like Mexican or Colombian or Puerto Rican?"
Milo "No no, I'm from España"
Girl: "But like, which country did you grow up in?"
Milo: " España...uh Spain"
Girl: ...
Me: "There's a country in Europe called Spain, its the place where spanish originated, like England is where english originated."
Girl: "Duh"
Me: "That's where he's from."
Girl: *suddenly realizes how dumb this whole exchange has been and dies of embarrassment.
At least she acknowledged it, that's better than other people in this situation
Yeah, she was a very smart person, IIRC she was studying aeronautical engineering, literally a rocket scientist. Just one of those weird ways that you don't think about your bias until it smacks you in the face.
People in Spain don't speak Spanish, they speak Mexicanish.
Well to be fair: Some regions in Spain really like to prefer to call it "Castellano".
Yes, because there are multiple Romance languages spoken in Spain, and they're all "Spanish" to people who live there. Castellano is the one spoken in Madrid, so it's what the rest of the world thinks of as Spanish, kind of like how Mandarin is often referred to as Chinese even though other dialects are equally Chinese.
I had the opposite argument with one Indian guy when I was living in the UK.
He was saying what people speak in countries like Mexico, Argentina, etc. cannot be called Spanish because they are not from Spain and instead they speak Mexican, Argentinian...
I told him what they speak in those countries is still Spanish the same way that what they speak in the US is English even when they are not in England. He replied that what they speak in America is not English either but American instead.
Then I realized how stubborn he was in his wrongness and just gave up.I was expecting something else when I clicked this post. "En España se habla español" is something you would expect to hear from a Spanish Nationalist as a way of attacking Spain's other languages.
I initially wrote “hablan español en España” but I was corrected in the comments. I’m just a beginner!
Every bit of this is glorious. ♥
Spain is called Špania in my language lol
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En España se habla español.
Sounds better that way.
Thank you for that! I’m a beginner (obviously).
What did it originally say?
This is a troll, it's not possible otherwise
No, can confirm there are far too many people this ignorant. I work with a good number of them. I'm in North Georgia, and some of these people literally can't find themselves on a map of the United States and believe the English folks stole English from the Americans...
My sister-in-law said she couldn't have mayonnaise because she was intolerant to dairy.
People are just dumb these days.
I live in Seattle but I hail from the atl metro, I can confirm this is not uncommon, my mother asked me where Canada “ended” yesterday… she thought it was just above nyc
And it's not like there's a place called Englia where they speak English, either!
i legitimately thought this for 3 years...
...then i turned 4
so no one is going to mention the fake moustaches on the eyebrows
