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leafar · 10th July 2009, 03:23

Lazy? How dare you. Yeah, its lazy.

And there are different levels. Sometimes i can totally understand what someone is saying, but other times its all a blur. When im talking normally, i would say that a spanish person could understand most of what i say, but when i get ****ed off or whatever, my accent gets stronger and i blur my speech. And i use my hands a lot, even on the phone to my mum.

And recently ive realised that a lot of words that i use (much more than i thought) arent standard spanish. For example : engurruNado (i dont have the n with a line on top on my kbd, hence N). It means scrunched up. I dont even know what the spanish word for that is. There are thousands of words that arent standard spanish, and someone compiled a dictionary, its massive.

Its almost like a different language. The difference between spanish and C.I. spanish (or south american spanish) is about the same as the difference between standard english and jamaican patois, i think.

I love it. I love the way i talk. Its so casual and rustic. Can you tell that im obsessed?

10th July 2009, 03:23	#4 (permalink)
leafar Super Tenerifian Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: In my skin Gender: Posts: 440	Re: The difference between spanish and canary islands spanish Lazy? How dare you. Yeah, its lazy. And there are different levels. Sometimes i can totally understand what someone is saying, but other times its all a blur. When im talking normally, i would say that a spanish person could understand most of what i say, but when i get ****ed off or whatever, my accent gets stronger and i blur my speech. And i use my hands a lot, even on the phone to my mum. And recently ive realised that a lot of words that i use (much more than i thought) arent standard spanish. For example : engurruNado (i dont have the n with a line on top on my kbd, hence N). It means scrunched up. I dont even know what the spanish word for that is. There are thousands of words that arent standard spanish, and someone compiled a dictionary, its massive. Its almost like a different language. The difference between spanish and C.I. spanish (or south american spanish) is about the same as the difference between standard english and jamaican patois, i think. I love it. I love the way i talk. Its so casual and rustic. Can you tell that im obsessed?