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In Spain a computer is an ordenador. Spaniards hate anglicisms. Car is coche, not carro, email is correo electronico, zipper is cremallera. Lots of others.

xxs 4y ago
>ordenador you mean unlike French?
ekianjo 4y ago
Is carro used more in Mexico then ?
- qtzfz 4y ago
  Carro is not used in Spain at all.
  - anthk 4y ago
    It's used, but for the old ones with horses.
    - qtzfz 4y ago
      Exactly, but don't ask Manolo Escobar about it, since it's somewhat of a sensitive issue for him.
    - el-salvador 4y ago
      > It's used, but for the old ones with horses. This was new for me. The Spanish words carro, carreta, coche, carretilla, carrito all mean "something that has wheels on it", but the meaning keeps changing between car, horse drawn carriage, baby stroller, shopping cart, horse drawn cart or toy car between countries. Fortunately it's easy to figure out from context and doesn't have possible misunderstandings as the Spanish word for straw.
      - jjav 4y ago
        > Fortunately it's easy to figure out from context and doesn't have possible misunderstandings as the Spanish word for straw. What/where are the misunderstandings for sorbeto?
        qtzfz 4y ago
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        anthk 4y ago
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        el-salvador 4y ago
        https://www.speakinglatino.com/spanish-language-words-for-drinking-straw/ https://www.speakinglatino.com/spanish-language-words-for-dr...
- SilasX 4y ago
  Similar for computadora (rather than ordenador) in Latin America: https://www.woodwardspanish.com/how-to-say-computer-spanish-computador-computadora-ordenador/ https://www.woodwardspanish.com/how-to-say-computer-spanish-...
loloquwowndueo 4y ago
Lots more Galicisms in Spain for sure :) probably easier to share words when you also share a land border.
- TRiG_Ireland 4y ago
  Do Spanish-speaking and French-speaking areas actually share a border? I thought there was a buffer zone of Catalan and Basque. I'll need to check a map. On checking, it looks like there is a short (but very mountainous) border: https://maps-spain.com/maps-spain-geography/spain-language-map https://maps-spain.com/maps-spain-geography/spain-language-m...
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  - qtzfz 4y ago
    Don't be mislead by that map, everybody in those regions that say "Basque" or "Catalan" know Spanish perfectly well.
TRiG_Ireland 4y ago
English car comes from Latin, actually, but Latin picked it up from Celtic (cf. Breton karr). https://www.etymonline.com/word/car https://www.etymonline.com/word/car
anthk 4y ago
We use email too in Spain. It's shorter. And parking instead of "estacionamiento". Also, we used to use computador/computadora in the old times (60's/70's).

xxs 4y ago

>ordenador you mean unlike French?

ekianjo 4y ago

Is carro used more in Mexico then ?

qtzfz 4y ago
Carro is not used in Spain at all.
- anthk 4y ago
  It's used, but for the old ones with horses.
  - qtzfz 4y ago
    Exactly, but don't ask Manolo Escobar about it, since it's somewhat of a sensitive issue for him.
  - el-salvador 4y ago
    > It's used, but for the old ones with horses. This was new for me. The Spanish words carro, carreta, coche, carretilla, carrito all mean "something that has wheels on it", but the meaning keeps changing between car, horse drawn carriage, baby stroller, shopping cart, horse drawn cart or toy car between countries. Fortunately it's easy to figure out from context and doesn't have possible misunderstandings as the Spanish word for straw.
    - jjav 4y ago
      > Fortunately it's easy to figure out from context and doesn't have possible misunderstandings as the Spanish word for straw. What/where are the misunderstandings for sorbeto?
      - qtzfz 4y ago
        [dead]
      - anthk 4y ago
        [dead]
      - el-salvador 4y ago
        https://www.speakinglatino.com/spanish-language-words-for-drinking-straw/ https://www.speakinglatino.com/spanish-language-words-for-dr...
SilasX 4y ago
Similar for computadora (rather than ordenador) in Latin America: https://www.woodwardspanish.com/how-to-say-computer-spanish-computador-computadora-ordenador/ https://www.woodwardspanish.com/how-to-say-computer-spanish-...

loloquwowndueo 4y ago

Lots more Galicisms in Spain for sure :) probably easier to share words when you also share a land border.

TRiG_Ireland 4y ago
Do Spanish-speaking and French-speaking areas actually share a border? I thought there was a buffer zone of Catalan and Basque. I'll need to check a map. On checking, it looks like there is a short (but very mountainous) border: https://maps-spain.com/maps-spain-geography/spain-language-map https://maps-spain.com/maps-spain-geography/spain-language-m...
- deleted 4y ago
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- qtzfz 4y ago
  Don't be mislead by that map, everybody in those regions that say "Basque" or "Catalan" know Spanish perfectly well.

TRiG_Ireland 4y ago

English car comes from Latin, actually, but Latin picked it up from Celtic (cf. Breton karr). https://www.etymonline.com/word/car https://www.etymonline.com/word/car

anthk 4y ago

We use email too in Spain. It's shorter. And parking instead of "estacionamiento". Also, we used to use computador/computadora in the old times (60's/70's).