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Once Upon a Time in Mexico
http://www.thewanderermagazine.co.uk/2014/01/04/a-travellers...
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Very interesting blog!
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Udo
Very interesting blog! |
Yea, I'm curious to see if Blanca has seen any of that Oaxaca stuff, know they were down in that area touring awhile back.
Glad hearing from you Udo, hope all going mejor para Ud.
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I think so was DTBushpilot.
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Wow!
Insurance to pay off the narcos
Frikken insane
Turd world country for sure
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I loved the blog! We have indeed been to every single place mentioned which made it all the more interesting!
Interesting how the Spanish differs, I had not considered that issue ever before - Spain and Mexico: separated by a common language is a good way to
put it.
San Cristobal de las Casas (most incredible church with Indians sitting on the floor), Puebla (pottery everywhere), Catzacoalco (truly decadent
chocolate), Oaxaca (black ceramic), Mexico City (yes to those canals!)......memories I will treasure forever.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by BajaBlanca
I loved the blog! We have indeed been to every single place mentioned which made it all the more interesting!
Interesting how the Spanish differs, I had not considered that issue ever before - Spain and Mexico: separated by a common language is a good way to
put it.
San Cristobal de las Casas (most incredible church with Indians sitting on the floor), Puebla (pottery everywhere), Catzacoalco (truly decadent
chocolate), Oaxaca (black ceramic), Mexico City (yes to those canals!)......memories I will treasure forever. |
Oh, I'm so pleased you saw and then were able to read of another's experience there Blanca.
Descriptions of your trip here on forum were wanderful, I followed you everywhere.
My wife spoke a pure castilian and was often asked "You're not from around here are you" when we were living in Guadalajara.
She soon picked up the local dialect and then was asked "You're not from around here are you" when we traveled in Central America.
Sort of like an American speaking with a Brit. Same language but so many differences that it takes some thought.
Just occurred to me. I was motorcycle touring the Eastern Seaboard and was in Virginia or the Carolina's somewhere. Pulled into a gas stop/convenience
store and was having a cold drink out front when two pick-up's pulled in next to each other so the driver's could speak with the other.
Dog's,, gun-racks, the whole deal. I could hear their conversation plainly and they spoke for five or more minutes and I didn't understand a word they
said.
I'm a West Coast product. Linguistics are amazing.
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Linguistics really is amazing and on the same line -Portuguese from Brazil and Portuguese from Portugal are very different and like you say:
sometimes you cannot understand a word.
Here is La Bocana, the locals who have never lived anywhere else but here have a dialect that I can hardly understand as well.
Linguistics Linguistics
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| Quote: | Originally posted by BajaBlanca
Linguistics really is amazing and on the same line -Portuguese from Brazil and Portuguese from Portugal are very different and like you say:
sometimes you cannot understand a word.
Here is La Bocana, the locals who have never lived anywhere else but here have a dialect that I can hardly understand as well.
Linguistics Linguistics |
My Dad spoke perfect Castilian and always got funny looks in Mexico.
Sitting in a bar in London I could not understand a word the guys sitting next to me saying in heavy c-ckney.
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I was in a bar in Waikiki and tried to converse with a couple of New Zealanders.
Most of their language didn't even sound like English.
But it was fun.
And, being Dutch, I remember that even in such a small country there are several dialects in the southern and eastern part of the country that folks
from the coastal area have difficulty understanding.
Hard to believe.
[Edited on 10-12-2014 by vandenberg]
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