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Mexican moss?
Posted: Mon Jun 21, 2010 5:00 pm
by NuclearDad
The wife and I are waiting for the bus outside EPCOT. Just heard a teenage girl ask her mom "Why is there Mexican moss every where?" Took me a moment to realize she was talking about the Spanish moss.
Re: Mexican moss?
Posted: Mon Jun 21, 2010 5:05 pm
by Malpass93
Fail. The two nations are different bloody continents.
Doing that is like confusing England with Borneo....
Re: Mexican moss?
Posted: Mon Jun 21, 2010 5:20 pm
by Lasolimu
Malpass93 wrote:Fail. The two nations are different bloody continents.
Doing that is like confusing England with Borneo....
You mean England and Borneo are different!? Why has no one told me this before? :p:
Re: Mexican moss?
Posted: Mon Jun 21, 2010 5:26 pm
by Malpass93
Lasolimu wrote:You mean England and Borneo are different!? Why has no one told me this before? :p:
Don't confuse Borneo's orangutans with some of Britain's hairier residents...
Re: Mexican moss?
Posted: Mon Jun 21, 2010 5:33 pm
by Mr. M
NuclearDad wrote:The wife and I are waiting for the bus outside EPCOT. Just heard a teenage girl ask her mom "Why is there Mexican moss every where?" Took me a moment to realize she was talking about the Spanish moss.
HA HA HA
Well, Mexican's speak Spanish... :D:
God I hate that stuff though, full of those little red bugs. Made for great outside Halloween decor though :)
Re: Mexican moss?
Posted: Mon Jun 21, 2010 6:56 pm
by darph nader
Mr. M wrote:HA HA HA
Well, Mexican's speak Spanish... :D:
Kinda. Years ago,a guy I worked with was from Spain and would have a rough time with our 'Hispanic' customers. Mexicans have a little Mayan and Aztec thown in for good measure. Pretty much the 'same' language,different dialects.
Re: Mexican moss?
Posted: Tue Jun 22, 2010 4:15 am
by Main Streeter
Mr. M wrote:Well, Mexican's speak Spanish... :D
Not even close! Vast difference.
Re: Mexican moss?
Posted: Tue Jun 22, 2010 6:03 am
by Mr. M
Main Streeter wrote:Not even close! Vast difference.
They don't speak
Spain Spanish, but they speak Spanish. Or were all the language arts teachers in school wrong when they were teaching "Spanish".
Re: Mexican moss?
Posted: Tue Jun 22, 2010 7:18 am
by Mayonnaise
The Casthhhhilian's sound funny and the Mexicans pronounce the LL wrong...
They only speak proper Spanish in Colombia.
8^P
Re: Mexican moss?
Posted: Tue Jun 22, 2010 6:57 pm
by delsdad
Mr. M wrote:They don't speak Spain Spanish, but they speak Spanish. Or were all the language arts teachers in school wrong when they were teaching "Spanish".
I expect it's kind of like a French Canadian trying to be understood in France or Haiti... difficult.
We had a Haitian french teacher for a year in grade 7. The school board realized they had made a huge mistake in hiring him, as the only way he could communicate with the French Canadians in our school was by speaking English. They simply could not understand each other. It turned out that his patois was not even close to French, Canadian or European. The rocket scientists who hired him spoke no French, so they just thought "It sounds like French" and hired him. He did have a teaching cert, from Haiti, and that was good enough
