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> And the fact that you are native Spanish speaker makes little difference here. How trustworthy is a native Spanish speaker? You will know it when you navigate

> And the fact that you are native Spanish speaker makes little difference here. How trustworthy is a native Spanish speaker? You will know it when you navigate the Spanish speaking Internet and find most of it are antivaxxers, flat earthers and people that believe "US Navy" is a given name ("Usnavy"). I know this because I have native Spanish proficiency as well. Whoa. Even though I'm a Latino, I've never been offended or felt discriminated against while living in the USA these last 20 years. But your comment is something else. It's obvious that you haven't interacted with any Spanish-speaking scientist, programmer, or really anyone that didn't skip high school. > Does "ethernet" have a formally recognized translation by the RAE? No, it doesn't. You are being dishonest and making stuff up here. It doesn't, but that doesn't mean you're forbidden from using a word. Every Spanish-speaking IT professional pronounces ethernet as "eternet", although it is written as "ethernet", because we don't have a word for it in Spanish. I'm mad. Not at you, but at the fact that your cowardly throwaway username hasn't been banned from HN yet.

29athrowaway 4y ago
> Whoa. Even though I'm a Latino, I've never been offended or felt discriminated against while living in the USA these last 20 years. I am glad that you have not been offended or discriminated on the basis of race, ethnicity or national origin in 20 years. That sounds amazing and I hope that trend extends further into the future. The sad part is that it is irrelevant in this context. You could be an elf immigrant living in Mordor and that would have absolutely no relation to this whatsoever. > But your comment is something else. It's obvious that you haven't interacted with any Spanish-speaking scientist, programmer, or really anyone that didn't skip high school. The amount of incorrect information in your reply is directly proportional to its word length. > Every Spanish-speaking IT professional pronounces ethernet as "eternet". Do not promote your vernacular preferences to authoritative and official information. > Not at you, but at the fact that your cowardly throwaway username hasn't been banned from HN yet. I am sorry to inform you that "copperx" is also a pseudonym and that the coward designation you have so eagerly used to refer to me, would also apply to you as well if we follow your logic.
- ErneX 4y ago
  I’m Venezuelan and I lived half my life there and half in Spain. TH is pronounced as T in Spanish. So “culitho” is “culito” which is small ass in Spanish. What a weird discussion.
  - 29athrowaway 4y ago
    Don't promote opinions to facts.
elefanten 4y ago
Come on, this is a weird overreaction. The other poster's being a bit intense, but you opened the interaction by calling a majority of their comment completely false. Ironically, you made some weak sweeping claims in the process; namely that 'th' is never latinized 'z' and that 'th' is always pronounced 't' in practice. Look up and down the topic, plenty of examples of people sharing contradictory experiences on these questions and referencing the variety of types of Spanish (anywhere from a dozen to dozens, depending how you slice it). And the comment, even if taken literally with no rhetorical effect intended, was that "most" of the Spanish-speaking internet was garbage. I'd say most of ANY language internet is pretty garbage. You inflated that way out of context then clutched your pearls

29athrowaway 4y ago

> Whoa. Even though I'm a Latino, I've never been offended or felt discriminated against while living in the USA these last 20 years. I am glad that you have not been offended or discriminated on the basis of race, ethnicity or national origin in 20 years. That sounds amazing and I hope that trend extends further into the future. The sad part is that it is irrelevant in this context. You could be an elf immigrant living in Mordor and that would have absolutely no relation to this whatsoever. > But your comment is something else. It's obvious that you haven't interacted with any Spanish-speaking scientist, programmer, or really anyone that didn't skip high school. The amount of incorrect information in your reply is directly proportional to its word length. > Every Spanish-speaking IT professional pronounces ethernet as "eternet". Do not promote your vernacular preferences to authoritative and official information. > Not at you, but at the fact that your cowardly throwaway username hasn't been banned from HN yet. I am sorry to inform you that "copperx" is also a pseudonym and that the coward designation you have so eagerly used to refer to me, would also apply to you as well if we follow your logic.

ErneX 4y ago
I’m Venezuelan and I lived half my life there and half in Spain. TH is pronounced as T in Spanish. So “culitho” is “culito” which is small ass in Spanish. What a weird discussion.
- 29athrowaway 4y ago
  Don't promote opinions to facts.

elefanten 4y ago

Come on, this is a weird overreaction. The other poster's being a bit intense, but you opened the interaction by calling a majority of their comment completely false. Ironically, you made some weak sweeping claims in the process; namely that 'th' is never latinized 'z' and that 'th' is always pronounced 't' in practice. Look up and down the topic, plenty of examples of people sharing contradictory experiences on these questions and referencing the variety of types of Spanish (anywhere from a dozen to dozens, depending how you slice it). And the comment, even if taken literally with no rhetorical effect intended, was that "most" of the Spanish-speaking internet was garbage. I'd say most of ANY language internet is pretty garbage. You inflated that way out of context then clutched your pearls