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To: odawg
If the requirement to win the presidency means the candidate has to speak in a foreign language, then that means we have already lost our country.

If you're going to slam him for speaking a foreign language then at least correctly identify it as "Spanish" and not "Mexican". I doubt Cuban-Americans think they speak "Mexican" at home.

30 posted on 08/25/2015 7:28:45 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: DoodleDawg
If you're going to slam him for speaking a foreign language then at least correctly identify it as "Spanish" and not "Mexican".

I've heard Spanish in Spain and in Mexico. In Mexico, except for the educated classes, you might as well call it Mexican. Put it this way: Start talking to them in Castilian and they will look up at you, puzzled.

I doubt Cuban-Americans think they speak "Mexican" at home.

Darn right they don't. They speak Spanish.

59 posted on 08/25/2015 7:50:30 AM PDT by SamuraiScot
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To: DoodleDawg

“If you’re going to slam him for speaking a foreign language then at least correctly identify it as “Spanish” and not “Mexican”. I doubt Cuban-Americans think they speak “Mexican” at home.”

Actually there is a difference. Mexicans speak many different dialects, some less formal and educated than the original Spanish.


63 posted on 08/25/2015 7:51:34 AM PDT by Hardens Hollow (Couldn't find Galt's Gulch, so created our own Harden's Hollow to quit paying the fascist beast.)
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To: DoodleDawg

The “speaking Mexican” comment wasn’t tweeted by Trump. It was tweeted by one of his supporters.

Bashing Trump because of this comment doesn’t make any sense.


73 posted on 08/25/2015 7:57:51 AM PDT by Helicondelta
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To: DoodleDawg

“If you’re going to slam him for speaking a foreign language then at least correctly identify it as “Spanish” and not “Mexican”. I doubt Cuban-Americans think they speak “Mexican” at home.”

I did not identify any specific foreign language. I was referring to the principle, not the detail.


82 posted on 08/25/2015 8:06:30 AM PDT by odawg
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To: DoodleDawg
If you're going to slam him for speaking a foreign language then at least correctly identify it as "Spanish" and not "Mexican". I doubt Cuban-Americans think they speak "Mexican" at home.

Hate to break it to you, Dawg, but Cuban is a LOT closer to Mexican "Spanish" than to "Spain" Spanish.

In fact, all Latin American countries' "Spanish" have many common and unique words and expressions incomprehensible to other "Latin countries" two countries removed.

I have no idea of the education level of Jeb's imported Mexican wife but, personal experience tells me that what Jeb speaks is most probably Mexican Spanish.

113 posted on 08/25/2015 10:02:57 AM PDT by publius911 (A QUICK BUT)
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