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Re:Ancient Maya city discovered in Mexican jungle by veave on Thursday June 22, 2023 @07:33PM (#36440720)
It is verbatim, Spanish from the 16th century. It doesn't sound right to a modern Spanish speaker.
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Re:Ancient Maya city discovered in Mexican jungle by sosodev on Thursday June 22, 2023 @08:11PM (#36441020)
It seems fairly close to modern Spanish at least. Totally intelligible.
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Re:Ancient Maya city discovered in Mexican jungle by lisasays on Thursday June 22, 2023 @11:44PM (#36442529)
"Intelligible" and "sounds right" are very different things.
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Re:Ancient Maya city discovered in Mexican jungle by empyrrhicist on Friday June 23, 2023 @10:16AM (#36447121)
Can you expand about why it doesn't sound right? Are you a native speaker?
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Re:Ancient Maya city discovered in Mexican jungle by lisasays on Friday June 23, 2023 @12:31PM (#36449155)
No - you'll have to ask the commenter a few notches above about that. I was referring the general distinction between the terms. In general - just because a phrase is easily understood doesn't mean it is idiomatically correct or natural-sounding to a native speaker.

As to the phrase itself: from my limited knowledge of the language, it does sound to be very close to correct -- so I'd be curious also as to what the sticking point is.

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Re:Ancient Maya city discovered in Mexican jungle by elpakal on Thursday June 22, 2023 @10:20PM (#36442043)
Sounds fine to me. Maybe depends on your kind of Spanish
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