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Eh, Spanish has the same issues across the pond and everyone adapts quickly. Móvil/Celular -cell phone- Camarero/Mesero -waiter- Tiroteo/Balacera -shooting-
by anthk 6mo ago
Eh, Spanish has the same issues across the pond and everyone adapts quickly.
Móvil/Celular -cell phone-
Camarero/Mesero -waiter-
Tiroteo/Balacera -shooting-
Nevera/Heladera -freezer-
Cacahuete/Maní -peanut-
Coche/Carro -car- (In Iberian Spanish carro it's a old carriage)
Ordenador/Computadora (Computador was used in Ib. Spa. long ago maybe in 1960's and 1970's). And -computación (computing) it's used on formal, academical contexts, such as papers for the university.
Of course a formally written book will be understood everywhere, and the older, the better.
- pezezin 6mo agoYou forgot the best one: "Coger" in Spain means "to grab", in LATAM it means "to have sex" xD
- Anon84 6mo agoSimilarly, I’ve been told that “te quiero mucho” can mean very different things depending on where you are
- kibwen 6mo agoSure, US vs. UK English has this as well, in things like "fanny", "boot", "chip", etc. But a key difference here is that NK and SK are separated by a fence, not by 2,000 miles of ocean.
- Anon84 6mo agoBritish English is quickly becoming Americanized… (at least according to my results a few years back https://arxiv.org/abs/1707.00781v1 https://arxiv.org/abs/1707.00781v1)
- mixmastamyk 6mo agoMost "Americanized" variations came from Britain itself, including those that come more directly from greek, or skipped French influence. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_and_British_English_spelling_differences https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_and_British_English_s...
- Anon84 6mo agoA few years back I analyzed how (informal, social media) written Spanish differs from place to place and (re-)discovered that the vireynados were a thing a while back :) https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0112074 https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...
- dfxm12 6mo agoThere is lots of exposure to these differences: songs, books, TV, Internet posts, etc. that isn't necessarily there for North Korean.
- pndy 6mo ago> Móvil/Celular -cell phone- Can't tell if something has changed after 20 years when I was last time watching satellite tv, but German used to call phone "handy"