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Did you miss this early in the article? Or did you just not find it convincing? > Chile is so long because of the Andes. Here's a map of elevation in South America. > You can't easily pass these mountains, and the tiny sliver of land to their west is Chile.
Ok but why a single country ? Why hasn't it split?
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The Concepción metro area is 1 million people, Valparaíso/Viña as well. Chileans love to point out that there isn't much outside of Santiago but it's not really true.
There isn’t. Especially in the south. Floods, fires, and killer bears. It’s like The Purge, but every day. Don’t come.
I think this is where you gave it away. Nobody will believe this and we're all moving to south Chile now.
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Mornings and evenings. It is because its path is closer to the Sun. So when looking towards it you are always partly looking towards the Sun.
So you are saying the morning star name is technically wrong? It should be the morning and evening star? Of course star is wrong, too...
It actually just recently (start of June) went behind the sun; it’s still too close to the sun in the sky to really be visible at all at the moment. As it moves further out from behind the sun it will start being visible in the evening sky in late July right after the sun sets, so it will be the ‘evening star’ again for the next eight months or so before it passes in front of the sun, disappearing from view for a bit, then comes back as the morning star next summer.
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I was trying to say that loanwords are generally present in languages. Modern German itself has many weirdly used English words without any immigrants to bring them in the first place. > Still influenced the dialect, didn’t it? A few food names do not qualify as "influenced the dialect" for me. Mapudungun did influence the Chilean dialect, but German did not. I generally find the "German influence in the south" very…
> Modern German itself has many weirdly used English words without any immigrants to bring them in the first place. This is correct. Case in point: Beamer . > A few food names do not qualify as "influenced the dialect" for me. For you . That doesn’t change the fact that the term has widespread use all over the national territory. > Mapudungun did influence the Chilean dialect If you want to stress the point, I’d addi…
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When I was getting my degree, two of my classmates spoke Spanish as a first language. One was a transfer student from Madrid, and the other was an immigrant from northern Mexico. I was in the room the first time they met and tried speaking Spanish to one another. They couldn't understand each other and communicated solely in English after about 10 minutes.
I call bullshit on this. I am from Spain, I have met many people from different Spanish-speaking countries including Equatorial Guinea (people always forget about them), and we rarely have any problem understanding anybody (unless someone is an idiot who doesn't want to be understood, it happens too).
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I travelled to Chile earlier this year and visited Atacama and Torres de Paine. The thing that boggled my mind was that you can't drive between the two without a very long detour through Argentina. Chile has literally no road linking the northern part with the southernmost part without going outside the country. It is also mind boggling that rail is not more popular there. A long, slim country is ideal for high speed…
I tried to cross the border into Argentina north of Puerto Montt. I wanted to check out the Argentinian side for a day or two. But they wouldn't let me across the border with my rental car, and I got turned back. I suppose the rules are a little bit different in the far south?
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> Modern German itself has many weirdly used English words without any immigrants to bring them in the first place. This is correct. Case in point: Beamer . > A few food names do not qualify as "influenced the dialect" for me. For you . That doesn’t change the fact that the term has widespread use all over the national territory. > Mapudungun did influence the Chilean dialect If you want to stress the point, I’d addi…
There are more Quechua words, but yes, a few food names are not "language influence" in any seruous way. French influenced English and Russian, Arabic influenced Spanish, but the only linguistic legacy of Germans in Chile are kuchen , strudel , and some weird last names used as street names.
Your conclusion is then that Chilean Spanish has no Quechua language influence in any serious way?
> the only linguistic legacy of Germans in Chile are kuchen, strudel, and some weird last names used as street names
You forgot bocha, polca, and murra.
One of the most interesting drives in my life was Chile from the island of Chiloe to the Tatio Geysers in the Atacama. Just so many different climate zones, and all in relatively close proximity. Chiloe and Puerto Montt were damp, cold, and fog-shrouded in Summer (Jan-Feb), very similar to parts of the coastal pacific northwest. The area to its north, centered around the German-influenced town of Valdivia, was Califo…
I travelled to Chile earlier this year and visited Atacama and Torres de Paine. The thing that boggled my mind was that you can't drive between the two without a very long detour through Argentina. Chile has literally no road linking the northern part with the southernmost part without going outside the country. It is also mind boggling that rail is not more popular there. A long, slim country is ideal for high speed…
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There are more Quechua words, but yes, a few food names are not "language influence" in any seruous way. French influenced English and Russian, Arabic influenced Spanish, but the only linguistic legacy of Germans in Chile are kuchen , strudel , and some weird last names used as street names.
> a few food names are not "language influence" in any seruous way Your conclusion is then that Chilean Spanish has no Quechua language influence in any serious way? > the only linguistic legacy of Germans in Chile are kuchen , strudel , and some weird last names used as street names You forgot bocha , polca , and murra .
> murra
It's mora down here.
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Yep. It's way easier to take a boat to the middle of the ocean - fewer roads than even in the amazon :) and the best starry sky of my life
This is a dream of mine, to soend the night far away from land that there's nothing around but water. Did you already have sea experience, or did you just rent a boat and gave it a try?