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Skriven 2016-04-12 07:43:03 av Lee Lofaso (2:203/2)
  Kommentar till text 32408 av Björn Felten (2:203/2)
Ärende: Americanos
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Hello Björn,

 JD>> I'm not from the USA, but I have been to both Mexico, and South America

 BF> Good for you. How is your Spanish/Portuguese?

The Olympics in Rio!  Just four months away!  May the world
learn Brazilians speak Portuguese and not the Spanish of their
neighbors.

 BF> Many years ago I worked for a couple of months in Venezuela. First a short
 BF> time in Maracaibo and then in a hell hole called Barinas. Jeezzz man,
there
 BF> was hot and damp even in December. Even worse than Orlando, FL in July.

I would probably feel right at home.  South Louisiana is semi-tropical,
much of the area being swamp.  I've been to Orlando, but the climate
there is much drier.  Didn't care for it much, except for Disneyworld.

 BF> My Spanish is so bad (yes, I can order a beer, but that's about it) I had
to
 BF> have a German (no English ditto available) interpreter with me all the
 BF> time.

A Swede with a sense of humor.  That is truly funny.  Venezuelans
must have loved you for that.  Why didn't you just speak in English,
bypassing the need for a translator?  English is the universal
language, is it not?  Wherever Americans travel, they speak in
English.  So why not Swedes do the same?  Doesn't that make sense?

 BF> I can't recall them ever using the word americano for USAians. But then
 BF> again, this was some 40+ years ago. YMMV

It is "Yankee go home!", not "Americano go home!"

I am Cajun, not American.  I can say that.  :)

--Lee

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