u/Cock--Robin

In the US the terms "Latino" and "Hispanic" are used interchangeably to refer to people who live in or are from south of the US border. In a recent post in another sub I used the word "Hispanic" to refer to Argentinians, which engendered something of a flame war in the comments. Apparently there is a segment of the world's population who insist that "Hispanic" strictly refers to the Spanish.

A lot of unpleasant things were directed at me personally (arrogant anglo was about the nicest thing said) as if I was personally responsible for US English. (There was also a extensive discussion from Argentinians who insisted that they were in fact Hispanic.)

So here's my question: knowing that not pissing people off on the internet in a fool's errand, I still would like to use the terminology that the people who I'm referring to prefers. So how do people who live south of the US border refer to themselves collectively?

I was just told that the Wall of Beer on Pendleton Road is closing.

I just spent over 20 minutes struggling to get through a “review” section in my Spanish course that presented me entirely new nouns, entirely new verbs, entirely new, conjugations, and completely new concepts. I finally had to nope out and skip it, it was impossible to complete at my current level of understanding.

Hopefully not TMI … my RALP was just over a year ago and today was the first day since then that I didn’t need TriMix to “perform”. Woo!

When Duolingo gives you a word with multiple meanings to translate, is there a way to determine which meaning they’re looking for? I’ve been getting the English word “square” to translate, and it seems that no matter how I translate it I’ve guessed the wrong meaning. If I say “cuadrado” it’s looking for “plaza”, and vice versa.