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Originally Posted by Falcao
I can answer that. There is almost no differences of spelling in Spanish, mostly because there is the Royal Spanish Academy (motto "[It] cleans, sets, and casts splendour") who regulates the language. That doesn't mean there are no regional slangs. Sometimes one word can have different meanings and sometimes one concept can have more than one word to name it. One source of amusement is to discover than one innocent word in one country has a gruesome meaning in another country.
But, as I stated above, written Spanish is pretty regular, and one can see that online newspapers from Mexico, Spain, and South America uses (almost) the same spelling. |
Although, my it is my understanding that there is a significant difference in verbal usage. I recall reading a year or two ago, that Hispanic Television performers, world wide, have to learn to adopt a Mexican accent and speech patterns if they want to work regularly in Spanish Language Television. That it is even affecting how people speak on TV in Spain itself, not to mention Puerto Rico, South America, and South Florida.
From the Article, I gathered that the combination of Mexico being the most populous Hispanic country, being next to the USA, whose Mexican population now overwhelms the Puerto Rican and Cuban-American populations and creates a cultural power center that forces Mexican cultural and lingusitic norms on other production centers in order to sell content to the Mexican media conglomerates.
The article seemed to imply a sort of Mexican cultural imperialism, and it felt weird to this good ol' Anglo-American boy not to be pointed out as the bad guy. I had to read the New York Times just to get my bearings back!