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Wow. This changed from a Mexican language forum to bashing Mexican immigrants in the US. While I am all down for picking on Mexico's version of Castellano, there is no need to pick on poor immigrants who are trying to make a living. A lot of the people who work at the McDonald's here in Houston don't speak much English, but still do a much better job at getting your order right than people born here whose first language is English. So they speak poorly. Big deal. The US is and always will be a nation of immigrants.
Wow. This changed from a Mexican language forum to bashing Mexican immigrants in the US. While I am all down for picking on Mexico's version of Castellano, there is no need to pick on poor immigrants who are trying to make a living. A lot of the people who work at the McDonald's here in Houston don't speak much English, but still do a much better job at getting your order right than people born here whose first language is English. So they speak poorly. Big deal. The US is and always will be a nation of immigrants.
Those "poor immigrants trying to make a living" are behind those "poor Americans trying to make a living" or haven't you noticed its a major recession here
Wow. This changed from a Mexican language forum to bashing Mexican immigrants in the US. While I am all down for picking on Mexico's version of Castellano, there is no need to pick on poor immigrants who are trying to make a living. A lot of the people who work at the McDonald's here in Houston don't speak much English, but still do a much better job at getting your order right than people born here whose first language is English. So they speak poorly. Big deal. The US is and always will be a nation of immigrants.
Those "poor immigrants trying to make a living" are behind those "poor Americans trying to make a living" or haven't you noticed its a major recession here
I don't like or dislike someone more or less depending on their nation of origin. Sorry.
I think Mexico speaks Castilian Spanish, but the "que pasa mamacita" crowd does not do the language justice.
I think that the Spanish taught in American universities is the kind that works for Latin America. I found that what I learned was more applicable in South America, where I had a fantastic time because of having learned Spanish in advance. It sounds like a cleaner brand of Spanish. Sorry, my opinion. Then, when one visits Spain, they learn it's "Tharagotha," and not Zaragosa.
Another interesting way to explain that the "th" sound of "z" and soft "c" in the Spanish of most of Spain is that a very similar situation exists in English.
In many older dialects of English, the "s" in words like "gives" or "shares" would be replaced by "th", with the accompanying dental fricative.
"The lord giveth and the lord taketh away"
No one would seriously try to argue that this was a "lisp".
"z" in Spanish is not realized the same as "z" in English. Same letter, different sound.
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