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I don’t need to respond to this.

Okay so how about an example in a phrase (yours and not the dictionary 😉)

I am not questioning the meaning of arrancar. I was inquiring which is more common in Lucifer’s observation. arrancar vs encender el carro….has nothing to do with which one has more force.

Car: El carro = generic word for car in Latin America El coche= used in Spain Any other usage is in between. Arrancar el carro seems more common to me in general in Latin America.

Which would you say is more common?: Encender el carro or arrancar el carro. I say arrancar el carro. For example, el carro no arranca cuando hace mucho frío 🥶

Do you listen to bachata at all and if so are you hearing and/or understanding the lyrics? When I saw your post the first thing I thought of was a song by Raulin Rodríguez- Dame tu querer. ‘Esos ojitos tan verdes, ay, que te iluminan la cara’…. It’s the same meaning as alumbrar in the first...

Alumbrar is a synonym of iluminar it has the same meaning but alumbrar also has other meanings such as to give birth (dar a luz) and it is also used in the sense of to figure out something or shed light on a problem. Both are more formal usage but you will hear it depending on the speaker and...

Actually, I think in English it’s worse although I understand your comparison. Spanish is considered to be a unified language thanks to the RAE. There are so many rules of standardization which has helped to keep the language quite understandable across the broad spectrum. Of course, there are...

@Lucifer I agree with your post and vocabulary differences are expected from to country and region to region but I think what these people in the video clips were trying to point out is the striking difference in the accent in the three Caribbean islands vs other places in the Spanish-speaking...

Being a Customer Service Rep is not an easy job. You encounter all kinds of clientele but what happens when the Rep can’t understand the customer and vice versa? A few videos are going around on Instagram right now based on a true story. I thought the reaction is classic. How often have you...

How is pica just a Dominican word (with the meaning as discussed in the thread) when it’s used all over the Spanish-speaking world with the same meaning?

The word pica is used in the Spanish-speaking world to refer to spice or food that has some type of hot pepper in it. Therefore, it’s not limited to the Dominican Republic. You go anywhere in the Spanish-speaking world and you will hear pica, picante, comida picante etc. Comida picante- spicy...

I just read this article published yesterday and what great timing since we had a good discussion in the Test your Spanish thread about language. In this article, the discussion is about respecting the normas of the language 🤦‍♀️ It’s common in the Spanish-speaking world to hear shortened...

Interesting. Could this be just DR using azúcar prieta? I just looked up brown sugar in Word Reference and azúcar morena is listed as ambiguos meaning the form is not determined as right or wrong. azúcar moreno ✔️ azúcar morena . amb See here...

The anglicisms come from Dominicans who live in the US- the Heights, the Bronx, Jersey, Philadelphia, Connecticut, Miami and when they speak to their relatives and go back to DR they speak a different brand of Spanish. Mind you not all because that’s a generalization but they hear people say...

Spanish verb conjugation is a beast which is the reason why many people stick to learning basic or conversational Spanish because when they see the verb conjugations….adiós…. They don’t stick around. There are about thirteen tenses used in everyday Spanish and with so many irregular verb forms...

Buenos días….estoy de vuelta ☀️ I think you have decided to pick your battles and you adjust your pronunciation as to not standout. If not most likely people will say ‘el tipo no sabe hablar….¿por qué dice intervalo?‘ when in fact that is the correct pronunciation. Even a simple word like...

I will come back to this later on. I have to step out. I‘ll be back.

I think it’s too complicated for most people. Whether it’s understanding syllables or the alternative for many is memorizing the word itself if it has an accent which I think is crazy. It’s better to know the rule than to memorize which words have accents. As well, maybe people don’t think that...

Does Angie Cruz write in Spanish? Edited to add: I just looked at her bio she is Dominican-American from the Heights.