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As a bilingual speaker who grew up speaking Spanish, I would perfectly well understand “puedo buscar el auto” in that context, and myself would be extremely unl
by dontreact 8y ago
As a bilingual speaker who grew up speaking Spanish, I would perfectly well understand “puedo buscar el auto” in that context, and myself would be extremely unlikely to interpret it as anything else. Im not sure I would myself translate t any differently.
- tantalor 8y agoBut you are bilingual; the person in the article was not.
- flattone 8y ago2nd are you bilingual native Spanish speaker
- dontreact 8y agoMy point is that even a bilingual police officer (if I was in their place) could have said the same thing thing.
- dragonwriter 8y agoNo, a bilingual police officer (or other bilingual listener) would likely understand the intended meaning if someone else made this error (because they would know English and Spanish both well enough to see the likely translation-from-English error), but they would not be likely to make the error.
- TheSpiceIsLife 8y agoBut if you were transporting quite a stash of meth and cocaine I'm sure you'd want to find a lawyer who could convincingly argue confusion.
- daveFNbuck 8y agoIf you were transporting quite a stash of meth and weren't confused about what the police were asking or about your right to refuse, wouldn't you just say no?