What makes a person a particular race?

[merithyn]

Unlike English, which lacks a similar body AFAIK, correct Spanish is regulated by the Real Academia (which accepts members and terms from other countries, not just Spain). The French have something similar in the Académie française.
There are no shorthands of that kind in Spanish. I'm sure people over there use it, but just like using "your" when it should be "you're", it is still incorrect.

That may be the case in Spain, but even in my Spanish class at University we learned the Latin American version of the language, which included contractions, etc. (To be fair, we learned them because of the students asking about what they already knew from native Spanish speakers, but it came up, was addressed, and in essence became part of the lesson.)

Your governing body may try to govern the language, but it's failing miserably on this side of the ocean.

[merithyn]

I'm glad you're not getting mad at us for our playful mocking, Meri.

That was what I always hated about Horty: no sense of humor about himself.

It's a silly thing, really. I've long thought that about racial constructs, which I still say is completely made up. And if I'd been that seriously concerned about any of this, the last thing I'd have done was come to Languish. I was more interested in a world-wide idea of what "race" is, so where else but Languish?

As I said, it's confusing for me, has been confusing for others I've tried to explain this to, and isn't going to get any easier no matter how cut and dried some want to try to make it.

That being said, mis amigas and I are going to make some enchiladas and sopa tonight, drink it with Coronas, and end the night singing with the mariachis. Anyone want come? 

[Admiral Yi]

Soup sopa or rice sopa?

[Caliga]

For the record, I think it's great that you are exposing your kids to different cultures like this.  I have a co-worker who is so provincial she won't go out to lunch with us for anything "different", which to her includes Chinese, Mexican, etc. ... all of which are "too spicy". 

[Ed Anger]

For the record, I think it's great that you are exposing your kids to different cultures like this.  I have a co-worker who is so provincial she won't go out to lunch with us for anything "different", which to her includes Chinese, Mexican, etc. ... all of which are "too spicy". 

America hater.

You know what I hate? DORA THE EXPLORER.

[Caliga]

I know nothing about that cartoon. 

[Ed Anger]

I know nothing about that cartoon. 

It teaches kids SPANISH. 

[Caliga]

How else will they learn how to speak with the domestic help? 

[Admiral Yi]

Saturday Night Live did a pretty funny spoof of it, which is how I even know it exists.  Should be on YouTube.

[Ed Anger]

How else will they learn how to speak with the domestic help? 

English, because the nanny is white. 

[Tonitrus]

I know nothing about that cartoon. 

It teaches kids SPANISH. 

It could be worse...they could be watching "Ni Hao, Kai-Lan"

[Ed Anger]

I know nothing about that cartoon. 

It teaches kids SPANISH. 

It could be worse...they could be watching "Ni Hao, Kai-Lan"

Nope. Not allowed in my household mister. Pro-Chinese propaganda? OVER MY DEAD BODY.

[Slargos]

I, too, enjoy Corona beer.

Could I be: Closet hispanic? 

[Caliga]

Well, on a related note, I think anyone who can actually stand to eat lutefisk should be considered a full-blooded Norwegian.

Same goes for that rotten shark shit they eat in Iceland.

[Slargos]

Well, on a related note, I think anyone who can actually stand to eat lutefisk should be considered a full-blooded Norwegian.

Same goes for that rotten shark shit they eat in Iceland.

You are making me racially confused. 

I have tried and enjoyed lutefisk, rakfisk, aswell as the Swedish variant surströmming.

Could it be that I am racially Swewegio-Mexican?