• AlteredEgo@lemmy.ml
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    5 days ago

    All languages and country have all sorts of different historical names for foreign places or things. And that is fine. Except when Americans do it. Well and Germans calling Barcelona “Bazelona”. That’s just not okay.

    • Telemachus93@slrpnk.net
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      2 days ago

      Sorry, haven’t seen your reply earlier.

      Well and Germans calling Barcelona “Bazelona”.

      Huh? You must have heard someone having no idea what they’re talking about. :D

      We write it the same as in Spanish… So we have an r sound in there, but typically we don’t roll the r and instead pronounce it like the French. And we’ll pronounce Spanish “c” like a sharp S, but there’s plenty of Spanish and Latin American people doing the same. I have lived in Bogotá, I’m allowed to do this. :D