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So much going on in the world and yet so many rubbish news sources find non-news stories like this.

Just for the record, I pronounce it 'Spanish Risotto' and if I want to sound really Spanish, I will call it 'España Risotto'

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[–] guy@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Only in European Spanish, where they like to lisp every word

[–] space_gecko@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Would you consider the words: thinking, thoughtful, three, thin, thread, or thieves to be a lisp?

Spanish has specific letters that call for the "th" sound /θ/. In a Madrileño accent, The graphemes "ce", "ci", and "z" all make the sound /θ/.

Regional dialects may have some variation on those rules, but this is the standard pronunciation.

[–] guy@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

I was just making a joke about the predominant Spanish pronunciation in Europe, with the "th", as you say, vs the predominant pronunciation in South America, where those those graphemes have distinct non-"th" phonemes. So it sounds like here in Europe they have a lisp, that's the joke

[–] snacks@feddit.uk 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Depends on the region as well. Catalan is very different to Basque

[–] space_gecko@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Considering Basque is not even in the same language family as Catalan, that makes sense.

[–] snacks@feddit.uk 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

and yet, if I was to call you a cunt in english, youd get my drift in any language

[–] guy@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

You joke, but here in Scotland, or even moreso over in Australia, "cunt" is a very great and versatile word that can have any number of meanings depending on context, intonation and adjacent words. That meaning tends to get lost on others