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  • ArtemisimetrA@lemmy.duck.cafetoAnime@ani.social•What are your Top 10 anime?English
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    15 hours ago

    Am autistic, can’t rate favorites in order or other favorites will get jealous, so. In no particular order:

    • Ergo Proxy

    Knight’s & Magic * Made In Abyss * Eighty Six * Samurai Champloo * To The Abandoned Sacred Beasts * The Ancient Magus’ Bride * Gurren Lagann * Darling in the FRANXX * Rising of the Shield Hero (season 1) * Eureka 7 * Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress * Fire Force * FLCL * Mob Psycho 100 * KonoSuba * Kill La Kill * Overlord * That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime

    • Ghost in the Shell (literally all of it. Usually I hate 3-D model CGI but)
  • ArtemisimetrA@lemmy.duck.cafetoNo Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•How come in most school in the USA (at least mine) they teach Spain Spanish instead of Mexico Spanish? Would not Mexico Spanish be an obvious choice to teach?English
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    14 days ago

    And then when you actually spend any time in a place where Spanish is the first language, you start to understand that, like any language, there’s the academic form (commonly taught to non-native speakers as a second or third etc. language), and then there’s the local version, complete with all the colloquialisms and slang and unique pronunciations. In Argentina, the double-L (which school taught me makes a “y” sound, “ella” being pronounced basically “ey-ya”) is commonly pronounced as more of a soft “J” sound (“ella” becomes “ey-jha”). As far as my (admittedly limited) knowledge goes, that’s really not common outside of Argentina. And then in Bolivia, especially among native descendants (Quechua and Aymara predominantly), the double-r (which school taught me is one of two conditions when you roll the R with a tongue trill) is more commonly pronounced almost like a “zh” (“herramienta” becomes “hezhamienta”). Again, not common outside of Bolivia. Spain has that classic “Barthelona” lisp, and uses the “vosotros” pronoun where most South American Spanish speakers would probably use “ustedes” (basically “y’all” vs. “esteemed plural second persons”). And that’s not even getting into which verb tenses are used most widely in different regions. There’s like 14 or 15 specific verb tenses in Spanish to English’s 7, and in school I was taught to use specific ones to communicate effectively; then I went and spent two months in Bolivia pretty much never using past perfect or predicate, instead using past imperfect for 95% of interactions, only using past perfect with other folks que hablan español como segunda lengua, or in a few very specific interactions where more detail or specificity was required than would be so in common, everyday interactions. [Edit for spelling]