After examining the different ways that Spanish people greet each other, I was greatly surprised at the differences between Spanish and English ways of greeting. While English has formal and informal ways of greeting people, Spanish has very defined rules as to how you will greet people. This makes it much easier to distinguish the age, importance, title or position of the person who the greeting is being directed. English can at times be somewhat ambiguous as to what the position, title or age of the person is because we do not have defined rules.
I also find it very interesting that Spanish is so genderized. Where English uses the same words to speak of both men and women, Spanish uses special derivatives of words to make them gender specific.
Also, I found it very interesting that Americans say there are seven continents, and Spanish speaking countries believe there are only five continents. This seems very odd to me after having been accustomed to saying there are seven continents. The fact that the same words can mean very different things in each language is also very unique. Like the Spanish word for neighborhood, it means ghetto in English. I find these things to be muy interesante!
miércoles, 30 de enero de 2008
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