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"Thanks God" from "Gracias a Dios" ^^^ this is kinda weird considering Cuban Spanish omits the S (and often half the rest of the letters in any given sentence,
by bedobi 3y ago
"Thanks God" from "Gracias a Dios"
^^^ this is kinda weird considering Cuban Spanish omits the S (and often half the rest of the letters in any given sentence, lol, at least to my lower intermediate Spanish ears), resulting in "Gracia Dio"
- rvense 3y agoYeah, thought that was a weird claim. I'd wager that the form "thanks" is more frequent than "thank" in most people's English, making it easy for an L2 speaker to hypercorrect.
- asveikau 3y agoOmitting the /s/ is an oversimplification. Classically what happens in accents like that is that /s/ is rendered as [h]. People do this aspiration to varying extents, sometimes omitting totally, sometimes not. Presence of a vowel following nearby can make a full formed [s] appear. The "a" in gracias a dios could easily make that into "gracias a dio". By the way I had a coworker who was a native Arabic speaker say "thanks God" a lot. I think "thank God" is a phrasing that throws off a lot of people learning English, from multiple language backgrounds.
- codeadict 3y agoIndeed, i'm Cuban and we might sound like "Graciah a Diò".