I thought it was Americans that were so chauvinistic, it appears to e an anglo saxon thing, as does genocide (after all the Saxons wiped out the Romano Celts then their descendants did the same to native Americans.
Frankly French and Spanish are also chauvinistic, instead of using English technical terms, they have a committee that sanction French and Spanish equivalents. And try just try to get a Spaniard pronounce a J (Whether it is at the beginning of the a word of the middle, or an H .
Watching a Spanish speaker try to pronounce Jack and Jill is entertaining,
Vietnamese can pronounce the p in say peanuts, it sounds like phenuts, by the same token English speakers can't handle the diuretics in Vietnamese,where the letters m o and i when joined can mean mosquito , salt or many other things including me.
By the same light Gringos try to anglicize everything. Take Nevada, it is Spanish for Nevada it is Spanish for Snowfall or Snow capped mountarin. It is pronouned Neh vah dah, but Gringo's insist on pronouncing it Neh VAY dah. Jorge they pronounce George, Mojave, Mo JAVE, Inchilada instead of onchilada.(the word is enchilada, not inchilada)
por cierto Español es mi segundo idioma
The point is that humans should respect anothers culture and language and at least try to accomodate, it is pure arrogance when one doesn't.
I thought it was Americans that were so chauvinistic, it appears to e an anglo saxon thing, as does genocide (after all the Saxons wiped out the Romano Celts then their descendants did the same to native Americans.
Frankly French and Spanish are also chauvinistic, instead of using English technical terms, they have a committee that sanction French and Spanish equivalents. And try just try to get a Spaniard pronounce a J (Whether it is at the beginning of the a word of the middle, or an H .
Watching a Spanish speaker try to pronounce Jack and Jill is entertaining,
Vietnamese can pronounce the p in say peanuts, it sounds like phenuts, by the same token English speakers can't handle the diuretics in Vietnamese,where the letters m o and i when joined can mean mosquito , salt or many other things including me.
By the same light Gringos try to anglicize everything. Take Nevada, it is Spanish for Nevada it is Spanish for Snowfall or Snow capped mountarin. It is pronouned Neh vah dah, but Gringo's insist on pronouncing it Neh VAY dah. Jorge they pronounce George, Mojave, Mo JAVE, Inchilada instead of onchilada.(the word is enchilada, not inchilada)
por cierto Español es mi segundo idioma
The point is that humans should respect anothers culture and language and at least try to accomodate, it is pure arrogance when one doesn't.