Also offensive: pointing out that English speakers do not use the word “American” to refer to people from Latin America. The term in our language is universally used to refer to people from the country America.

  • Zier@fedia.io
    8·
    1 year ago

    Two corrections:

    1. Canada is legally called 'Canada" since 1867 and again in 1982.
    2. Brazil speaks Portuguese, not Spanish like many of the other Central & South American countries.
      • Zagorath@aussie.zoneOPEnglish
        4·
        1 year ago

        for example a good chunk of my family speaks a Venetian variety

        As in, the Italo-Western Romance language? That’s fascinating! When you said there are about 200 other languages, I was expecting indigenous languages and maybe some Spanish, but certainly not other European languages. What’s the history there? Were there Italian colonies in Brazil, or a notable migration of Italians to Portuguese colonies?

        See, this is exactly the sort of conversation I had hoped the original thread would lead to. Interesting linguistics, history, and geography. Until dessalines came in with the toxicity.

          • Zagorath@aussie.zoneOPEnglish
            1·
            1 year ago

            Other common groups of immigrants in LatAm were … Japanese

            Ah yes, I completely forgot about the Japanese/Brazilian relation. I did have familiarity with it previously, though.

            the straw that broke the camel’s back, for me, being !anime@lemmy.ml

            Interesting. I’ve never had an interest in anime. What happened with that community?

            the Late PIE homeland is right where the war is happening now

            I know that’s one reasonably well-supported hypothesis, but I thought there were others with some reasonable support that place it further southeast, around Armenia and Georgia? But yeah, I’m a strong supporter of communities leaving ML. And LW, though that’s for different reasons. Thanks for the community rec though!

    • Zagorath@aussie.zoneOPEnglish
      34·
      1 year ago

      What I have seen suggests that Canada has not changed its legal name since confederation in 1867, and at that time they chose the Dominion of Canada. The name has been allowed to fade out of use and has not been used in a long time, but neither was the name ever officially changed. Its obscurity is precisely why I chose to bring it up.

      Not sure what you put up point 2 for. I explicitly included one reference in my comment to acknowledge that, and at no time did I call out Brazil as speaking Spanish.