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Re:WordSafety – Check a name for unwanted meanings in foreig... by foldr on Tuesday August 25, 2015 @04:36PM (#10119261)
>Spain has an entire verb tense that is not in Mexican Spanish.

Are you sure you mean tense? The verb has an additional form in each tense because of vosotros, but there are no additional tenses so far as I know.

Re:WordSafety – Check a name for unwanted meanings in foreig... by schoen on Tuesday August 25, 2015 @04:59PM (#10119413)
It would probably be most accurate to say that it's an extra person.

Verbs can be inflected in various languages for gender, number, person [which can include degrees of formality, respect, or social distance], voice, mood, tense, aspect, ergativity [an alternative to voice], evidentiality [how the speaker knows that the thing happened], and other things I'm probably forgetting.

Re:WordSafety – Check a name for unwanted meanings in foreig... by foldr on Tuesday August 25, 2015 @06:01PM (#10119737)
Yes, I know. As far as I know, Mexican Spanish has all the same tenses as European Spanish but lacks a second person familiar plural, and hence the associated form of the verb in each tense.
Re:WordSafety – Check a name for unwanted meanings in foreig... by stephengillie on Tuesday August 25, 2015 @08:36PM (#10120336)
The first person informal plural (vos, vosotros) form of verbs isn't used outside Spain. Or maybe it's just not used in Latin America. Source: high school Spanish.
Re:WordSafety – Check a name for unwanted meanings in foreig... by afy on Tuesday August 25, 2015 @09:29PM (#10120490)
There are parts of south america where vosotros is used, but I think what the parent was getting at is that it is not technically considered a 'tense', but rather a 'person' as in e.g. 'third person'
Re:WordSafety – Check a name for unwanted meanings in foreig... by Shorel on Tuesday August 25, 2015 @09:57PM (#10120578)
In Colombia, the use of 'vos' means the person is from the region where sugarcane is cultivated, or the cities around.

That means Cali, Buenaventura and some others.

Re:WordSafety – Check a name for unwanted meanings in foreig... by foldr on Wednesday August 26, 2015 @09:08AM (#10122603)
Yes, that's why I said "because of vosotros" in my post.
Re:WordSafety – Check a name for unwanted meanings in foreig... by selimthegrim on Tuesday September 08, 2015 @09:26AM (#10185499)
I thought it was used in Argentina at least?