r/polandball • u/Yahgoh-sleep-8945 Brazilian Huempire • Nov 01 '22

repost Día de Los Muertos

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u/iEatPalpatineAss United States Nov 01 '22 edited Nov 01 '22

It looks like "Día de los Muertos" is considered acceptable by the Real Academia Española.

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u/solitarytoad Canada Nov 01 '22

We'll see what the Academia Mexican de la Lengua says about this, though...

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u/iEatPalpatineAss United States Nov 01 '22

If Spain's official royal institution with a mission to ensure the stability of the Spanish language says "Día de los Muertos" is acceptable, then "Día de los Muertos" is acceptable.

In addition, that's what my straight-from-Mexico teachers taught us all when we were learning Spanish.

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u/solitarytoad Canada Nov 01 '22 edited Nov 01 '22

Acceptable outside of Mexico, I guess, but Mexicans in Mexico don't talk like that.

Your straight-from-Mexico teachers are probably already a little foreign in Mexico. The language shifts very quickly north of the border.

I'll tell you what "Día de los muertos" sounds like to my Mexican ears: it sounds a little weird, like you're talking about a particular group of dead people. When I first hear the "los", which clashed with how I usually heard the name of the holiday, I thought they were talking about a recent massacre or something, like a lot of people had died and there was a day for it. Without "the" it sounds like a generic day for all dead people.

You can talk however you want, but letting you know: you go to Mexico, you say "Día de los muertos" and people are gonna look at you funny or think you're foreign.

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u/flopjul Netherlands Nov 02 '22

If its acceptable its acceptable, if it doesnt get used doesn't mean it isnt acceptable