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Sorry but this is incorrect. I lived in Peru for 4 years and speak to my Peruvian wife in Spanish everyday, they use ahorita the exact same way they do in Mexic
by patrickaljord 9y ago
Sorry but this is incorrect. I lived in Peru for 4 years and speak to my Peruvian wife in Spanish everyday, they use ahorita the exact same way they do in Mexico, Peru even uses more diminutive than Mexico, and I know it's the same in Bolivia, Chile and Colombia that I have visited. Looks like the author of this article doesn't know a lot about Latin America. I also know Puerto Rico is big on diminutive, so I'd say it's pretty much every single country in Latin America that speaks Spanish, they all use ahorita and even ahoritita this way.
- edko 9y agoAhorita is not used in Argentina. I am almost sure it is not used in Uruguay or Chile either.
- patrickaljord 9y agoI've never been to Argentina so you must be right, Uruguay and Argentina being similar in culture and language it's probably not used there either. Ahorita is used in Northern Chile at least where I visited but maybe that's because it used to be Peruvian land, the rest of Chile may be different.
- afc 9y agoI'm from Colombia and can confirm: we use "ahorita" all the time, with the exact meaning described in the article. The article claims Mexicans are not famous for their use of diminutives. They're not where I come from. I actually recall Peruvians and Venezuelans during my travels through South America mocking me (in a friendly way) for the fact that, in their view, Colombians use diminutives all the time.
- Shorel 9y agoIn Colombia we mock people from Santander for using diminutives all the time. Or we don't mock but we notice it a lot.