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Thread: Why Latinos love Spanish?

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    Latin Americans (Latinos for those who doesn't know) are proud of Spanish (well, our Brazilian bros are proud of Portuguese; which is a very close language).

    And we are proud of Spanish for several reasons.

    (1) It is the medium through all our ideas flow, and it has been that way since 5 centuries ago. In preColumbian Americas almost each band spoke its own language. There was a literal tower of Babel in the Americas. Spanish allowed us to communicate each other, no matter our peoples spread through 20% of the earth surface.

    (Even today, a Caribbean maybe proud of Taino, a Mexican of Nahuatl, a Peruvian of Quechua, a Bolivian of Aymara, a Brazilian of Tupi, a Paraguayan of Guarani, etc. But none will be proud of the native language of other country!)


    (2) Spanish carries a continious tradition that goes back to Middle Ages Spain, and even further, to the times the Roman soldier spread Vulgar Latin in the Iberian peninsulae. Spanish was the source of pride and identity of the Spanish people against the Islam (who spoke Arab), and is today the source of pride of Hispanics in the U.S. and elsewhere.

    (3) Spanish is a rational language, very easy to understand and follow.

    (4) Spanish has one of the most brilliant literary traditions worldwide, with superstars like Don Quixote.

    (5) Well, Spanish is our language. If some Spaniards doubt it; too bad. In the same way Romans lend them Vulgar Latin after a conquest, we also inherit Spanish after a violent and injust conquest. So, we are even.


    Listen what Celia has to say about it...

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0HUcSBiI-I

    ---------- Post added 2010-05-27 at 21:29 ----------

    "The Words" by chilean poet and Nobel Prize winner, Pablo Neruda, explain very well our relation with Spanish. If you can read Spanish, read it. It is a science fiction movie made poetry. And it is also an explanation of the Hispanic identity.

    LA PALABRA:

    Todo lo que usted quiera, sí señor, pero son las palabras las que cantan, las que suben y bajan… Me prosterno ante ellas… Las amo, las adhiero, las persigo, las muerdo, las derrito … Amo tanto las palabras… Las inesperadas… Las que glotonamente se esperan, se acechan, hasta que de pronto caen… Vocablos amados… Brillan como piedras de colores, saltan como platinados peces, son espuma, hilo, metal, rocío… Persigo algunas palabras… Son tan hermosas que las quiero poner todas en mi poema… Las agarro al vuelo, cuando van zumbando, y las atrapo, las limpio, las pelo, me preparo frente al plato, las siento cristalinas, vibrantes, ebúrneas, vegetales, aceitosas, como frutas, como algas, como ágatas, como aceitunas… Y entonces las revuelvo, las agito, me las bebo, me las zampo, las trituro, las emperejilo, las liberto… Las dejo como estalactitas en mi poema, como pedacitos de madera bruñida, como carbón, como restos de naufragio, regalos de la ola… Todo está en la palabra… Una idea entera se cambia porque una palabra se trasladó de sitio, o porque otra se sentó como una reinita adentro de una frase que no la esperaba y que le obedeció.
    Tienen sombra, transparencia, peso, plumas, pelos, tienen de todo lo que se les fue agregando de tanto rodar por el río, de tanto trasmigrar de patria, de tanto ser raíces… Son antiquísimas y recientísimas… Viven en el féretro escondido y en la flor apenas comenzada… Qué buen idioma el mío, qué buena lengua heredamos de los conquistadores torvos... andaban a zancadas por las tremendas cordilleras, por las Américas encrespadas, buscando patatas, butifarras, frijolitos, tabaco negro, oro, maíz, huevos fritos, con aquel apetito voraz que nunca más se ha visto en el mundo…
    Todo se lo tragaban, con religiones, pirámides, tribus, idolatrías iguales a las que ellos traían en sus grandes bolsas… Por donde pasaban quedaba arrasada la tierra… Pero a los bárbaros se les caían de las botas, de las barbas, de los yelmos, de las herraduras, como piedrecitas, las palabras luminosas que se quedaron aquí resplandecientes… el idioma. Salimos perdiendo… Salimos ganando… Se llevaron el oro y nos dejaron el oro…
    Se lo llevaron todo y nos dejaron todo… Nos dejaron las palabras.
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    Lol... is this a serious thread?

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    Quote Originally Posted by hero View Post
    Lol... is this a serious thread?
    No.... it's a PINGUIN thread


    But anyway, most people don't see Spanish here more than it is. Though personally I like it a lot. I would be fucked up if I spoke French, or Portuguese.

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    lol.... running out of ideas, viejo?

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    Same nonsense I hear every day. Unfortunately I'm used to Latinos' hatred of my language. One thing's for sure: the more speakers a language has, the more idiots you can communicate with.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lalo View Post
    lol.... running out of ideas, viejo?
    Callate bozal Mira que sacarme en cara mi edad. Es que acaso no te educan en Cuba o pierdes todo el día tocando tamnbores en el quilombo!!

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    Quote Originally Posted by CoolSpecs View Post
    Same nonsense I hear every day. Unfortunately I'm used to Latinos' hatred of my language. One thing's for sure: the more speakers a language has, the more idiots you can communicate with.
    Certainly. We can communicate now with Galicians

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    Stockholm syndrome?

    In psychology, Stockholm syndrome is a term used to describe a paradoxical psychological phenomenon wherein hostages express adulation and have positive feelings towards their captors that appear irrational in light of the danger or risk endured by the victims.The FBI’s Hostage Barricade Database System shows that roughly 27% of victims show evidence of Stockholm syndrome.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockholm_syndrome

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    Nah. You will never understand the psycology of the mixed peoples, who are AT THE SAME TIME, descendents of the conquered and the conquerors.

    Ask a Brit is he/she is in the side of the Anglos or the Saxons. Ask a French if he is one the side of the Gauls or Romans. The problem is the same. Those are multiple roots that must be respected as such. And Spanish is OUR language, because we descend of people who has spoken it for a thousand year.

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    Quote Originally Posted by pinguin View Post
    Certainly. We can communicate now with Galicians
    Galician language is endangered because of your fucking ugly language.

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    If you wanted to protect Basque I would agree with you, because that language is pre-Roman. However, protecting Galician makes no sense at all. Galician is not a Celt or Iberian language. It is just a variety of Castilian Spanish. An argot. So, what's so special with it?
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