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Felipe
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09 July 2008 at 10:11am | IP Logged

Alfonso wrote:

Lucia wrote:

   un christmas = a Christmas card
   un cross     = a cross-country event
   un open      = an open championship or tournament
   el spin      = the spinnaker (the colourful sail
                              ?? ???? de si gn ed for sailing with the wind
                              ?? ???? be hi nd the boat )
   un panty     = a pantyhose

I'm surprised to know that here in Latin-America we don't use any of these "imported words". It looks like there is more English influence in European Spanish than in Latin-American Spanish.

You cannot really say that European Spanish has more English influence than Latin American Spanish based on a list of 5 words. Latin America has a lot of loan words from English as well, they're just different. For example:

troca - truck (Mex.)
aplicar por - to apply for (a job, etc.) should be solicitar
guachar - to watch (Mex.)
ful - full (mostly used in the Caribbean)
checar - to check (Mex.) chequear in most of Latin America
zíper
clóset
cachar - to catch (although in some countries in South America this means to understand)
líving - living room (already mentioned in this thread) is used mostly by people in the Southern Cone.

There are many more on both sides of the Atlantic.

Edited by Felipe on 10 July 2008 at 3:48pm
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