• @dreadedsemi
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    231 year ago

    People in Spain don’t speak Spanish, they speak Mexicanish.

    • @Downcount
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      101 year ago

      Well to be fair: Some regions in Spain really like to prefer to call it “Castellano”.

      • Blaze (he/him)
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        81 year ago

        That’s the name used in the language itself, in English they would mostly use “Spanish”

        • teft's transporter clone
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          11 year ago

          They call it español here in Colombia. I have heard spanish referred to as castellano but not generally from the locals here.

          • Blaze (he/him)
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            41 year ago

            Indeed, it’s more used in Spain to differentiate it from Galician, Catalan, Basque, etc. In South America there is no need for that

            • @wieson
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              21 year ago

              In Paraguay they call it Castellano

      • @[email protected]
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        31 year ago

        Yes, because there are multiple Romance languages spoken in Spain, and they’re all “Spanish” to people who live there. Castellano is the one spoken in Madrid, so it’s what the rest of the world thinks of as Spanish, kind of like how Mandarin is often referred to as Chinese even though other dialects are equally Chinese.