I just read this article by @rwohan, in which he claims Messi is “the best male athlete of all time -- and no, it's not even close.”
I don’t know how anyone can make that claim with a straight face while completely excluding Jim Thorpe from the analysis.
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@BlackLeger@GeoRebekah Again, no argument. You’re basically repeating what I said. There’s Proto-German at the top of that lineage tree. Proto-German is to English and German as Spanish and French is to Latin.
@BlackLeger@GeoRebekah No hay error en lo que has dicho aquí. Usamos “Latino” como abreviatura de Latinoamericano. Y ese usó originó con californios, y luego fue adoptado por los Estadounidenses en inglés. Es decir que empezó con hispanohablantes y sigue con aquel significado hasta hoy día.
@BlackLeger@GeoRebekah ¿Miraste el video? Estamos de acuerdo. Ningún hispanohablante dice “estoy embarazado” para referirse a vergüenza. Pero los anglohablantes se equivocan así todo el tiempo porque no entienden que “embarrassed” y “embarazado” son cognados falsos.
@BlackLeger@GeoRebekah Estoy totalmente de acuerdo con respeto a los payasos que quieren meter Latinx. Amo la lengua española y Latinx es abominación.
No estoy disputando el significado de latino en español. Sólo quiero decirte que en inglés, Latino quiere decir latinoamericano. Es un cognado falso.
@BlackLeger@GeoRebekah You’re the one who began all this by trying to explain how English works to native English speakers.
Y parece que no entiendes lo que lees. Ya te dije que hablo tanto español como inglés. Estás diciendo que estás equivocada esta mujer hispanohablante?
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@BlackLeger@GeoRebekah If you’re speaking English, use the meaning of the word in English. If you’re speaking Spanish, use the Spanish word. It’s not that hard. What you’re doing is every bit as offensive and linguistically imperialistic as those English speakers trying to force “Latinx” onto Spanish.
@BlackLeger@GeoRebekah So if a woman says “Estoy embarazada” she isn’t saying she’s pregnant? And why did Dominicans laugh in my presence when another American man said he was “embarazado” and tell him no, he wasn’t pregnant, and to instead say “Tengo vergüenza” or “Estoy avergonzado”?
@BlackLeger@GeoRebekah Yes. And? You looked up the English definition of Latin. Let’s do the same for “Latino.”
Please show me where this says that it means something other than what “latinoamericano” means in Spanish.
@BlackLeger@GeoRebekah A Spanish-speaker insisting that “Latino” in English means the same thing as “latino” in Spanish is every bit as arrogant and wrong as a “gringo” insisting that “embarazado” in Spanish means the same as “embarrassed” in English.
@BlackLeger@GeoRebekah It’s a false cognate. Try reading and comprehending an English dictionary before calling those of us who speak both English and Spanish “ignorant,” “idiot,” and “stupid.”
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@DMConstantino@ricardocalvar12@GeoRebekah Respectfully, knowing the actual definitions of the words we use in our native tongue doesn’t make us daft. The Spanish/Portuguese word “latino” correctly translates into English as “Latin”—not “Latino.” It’s a false cognate. “Latino” in English means someone from Latin America.
@DrowsyKeroX@MiguelMadeira11@GeoRebekah If I were from Spain, I could say “Soy latino,” and that would be accurate. Bye if I said “I’m Latino,” that would be false. The correct translation of “Soy latino” is “I’m Latin.”
That makes “latino” and “Latino” false cognates.
@DrowsyKeroX@MiguelMadeira11@GeoRebekah In their native language, sure. But not in English because it’s a false cognate. In the context of English, if someone claims to be “Latino,” that means they claim to be from Latin America. And they’re not.
@DrowsyKeroX@MiguelMadeira11@GeoRebekah Not sure what you’re trying to say here, but in English, those from Portugal are Latin, but not Latino. In Portuguese and Spanish, the correct word is “latino.” But since we’re speaking English here, the correct word is “Latin.”
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