• Your Huckleberry@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    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.

      • lolcatnip@reddthat.com
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        1 year ago

        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.