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11-09-2017, 08:11 AM | #63 | |
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11-10-2017, 04:30 AM | #65 |
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Damn, one of the few times I could have appeared intellectual by having read the original untranslated version and I missed it
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That's OK - I did it for you . Fortunately it was only a 40 minute flight, because her English wasn't great, and my Italian is limited to be able to ask for a cup of coffee, which doesn't get you terribly far in a discussion of Jane Austen . I sometimes fall back to asking for things in Latin, which gets you a few funny looks, but works surprisingly often!
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But, it worked! I got by. Now, though I've forgotten good chunks of my French, Italian and Spanish because I haven't been travelling nearly as much and haven't been keeping up my lingual studies as I might've liked, I can still halfway speak a sort of Spanglish to anyone who speaks Spanish, but now with another wrench thrown in- I speak it with a definite Argentine accent. Anyone who speaks Spanish will tell you that their accent is quite unique as I've learned since leaving Argentina, and it's apparently very hard to understand from someone who's trying one's best to communicate in Spanglish (for instance, I tend to highly emphasise certain syllables, and always say 'vos' (bos) instead of 'tu' and pronounce ll as 'zhe' -maravizhoso, amarizho- and sometimes y as sort of a quick dzhj such as in 'yo'). |
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11-10-2017, 09:44 AM | #68 | |
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11-10-2017, 10:10 AM | #69 |
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I've tried speaking it in Texas. It wasn't all that successful. Well, the times I had to I muddled through to eventual comprehension, even if only barely.
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11-10-2017, 10:34 AM | #71 |
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Couldn't the same be said for speaking English in Texas? I have heard that some accents can be hard to understand if you aren't from Texas.
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My high school Spanish teacher pointed out the differences of Spanish spoken in different countries. He was from Arizona and lived in Puerto Rico and Miami. The differences between Cuban (Miami) speakers and Puerto Rican speakers was amazing. Even the speed of their speech was different.
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So...in my never ending search for a good case for my Oasis, I found this on ebay: https://www.ebay.com/itm/Luxury-Leat....c100005.m1851
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