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Re:Why Is Chile So Long? by santiagobasulto on Tuesday July 02, 2024 @05:34PM (#40860641)
No, it has nothing to do with accent (phonetic). It's entirely language. They have a long history of "forbidding" words that are "real or not real spanish".

And by the way, counterintuitively, languages have NOT evolved to be better understood, but on the contrary, to "separate" or create cohesion in smaller groups.

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Re:Why Is Chile So Long? by alephnerd on Tuesday July 02, 2024 @06:10PM (#40860905)
Eg. "La red" vs "Internet" back in the late 90s/early 2000s.

Guess which word took precedence?

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Re:Why Is Chile So Long? by wageslave99 on Friday July 05, 2024 @12:21PM (#40884021)
"Spain" is not forbidding anything, the RAE [1] and the ASALE [2] are working together in keeping a common tongue. Don't allow some chauvinistic view to cloud your judgement.

[1] https://www.rae.es/

[2] https://www.asale.org/

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