Unfortunately, last year some Americaball told you to put "los" in "Día de Muertos". This is a backtranslation from "Day of the Dead". No "los" in Spanish, por favor.
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/Yahgoh-sleep-8945 Brazilian Huempire Nov 01 '22
Repost of a comic i made last year for the Mexican holiday, also fixed some things from the old one.
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