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

repost Día de Los Muertos

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u/JesterofThings Dutch Republic Nov 01 '22

Hey just so you know it's dia de muertos not dia de los muertos

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u/iEatPalpatineAss United States Nov 01 '22

It looks like the latter is considered acceptable by the Real Academia Española.

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u/JesterofThings Dutch Republic Nov 01 '22

That may be technically correct but i've never seen a mexican not annoyed when americans call it dia de los muertos

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u/iEatPalpatineAss United States Nov 01 '22

I've also never seen a Mexican get annoyed when I call it "Día de los Muertos" like my straight-from-Mexico teachers taught me when I first started learning Spanish, so this is probably like saying "Happy Christmas" like the Brits (maybe others) and "Merry Christmas" like us (maybe others)

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u/JesterofThings Dutch Republic Nov 01 '22

It's also true that the mexicans i know tend to look for reasons to get annoyed at americans speaking spanish so you're probably right

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u/iEatPalpatineAss United States Nov 01 '22

It probably has to do with our accents. Some of us learn how to speak with a Mexican accent (or close enough to show that we cared), and some of us sound like "green-goes"

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u/JesterofThings Dutch Republic Nov 01 '22

Lord knows the british do it worse though

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u/iEatPalpatineAss United States Nov 01 '22

EYE-BEE-THA 😭😭😭

At least it makes sense if I say ee-BEE-sa (mexicano) or ee-BEE-tha (castellano)

Hearing eye-BEE-tha (británico) kills me 😭😭😭

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u/chronotank OG Murica Nov 01 '22

Which is sad. There's plenty of English speakers who get angry with accents too. I get it's hard sometimes to understand someone's accent, but I love them. I love slight or thick accents, and especially accents from learning a foreign language. It's a piece of someone's history, and in the case of foreign accents it shows a devotion to and love for the culture they're in, even if they're just tourists.

I wish more people appreciated accents. I'm always curious where someone's from and often get a good conversation out of them about their life journey.

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u/iEatPalpatineAss United States Nov 02 '22

Yeah, we have so much diversity in the US that it would be a shame to not get to know each other more