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Match Day Thread World Cup group C

Discussion in 'Hull City' started by Chazz Rheinhold, Nov 18, 2022.

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Top of the group?

  1. Argentina

  2. Saudi Arabia

  3. Mexico

  4. Poland

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  1. Ron Burguvdy

    Ron Burguvdy Well-Known Member

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  2. Ullofaman

    Ullofaman Well-Known Member

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    The argies and mexicans supporters are mingling all over the place - good to see.
     
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  3. Sumatran_Tiger

    Sumatran_Tiger Well-Known Member

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    They speak the same language.
     
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  4. Ullofaman

    Ullofaman Well-Known Member

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    Argentinian and Mexican are the same language???Wow
     
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  5. Cityzen

    Cityzen Well-Known Member

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    When the are not arguing.
     
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  6. TwoWrights

    TwoWrights Well-Known Member

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    At first I read that as 'minging all over the place', still ... :emoticon-0100-smile



    The views expressed in my posts are not necessarily mine.
     
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  7. Sumatran_Tiger

    Sumatran_Tiger Well-Known Member

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    Spanish
     
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  8. Cityzen

    Cityzen Well-Known Member

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    Nothing gets past you, does it?<laugh>
     
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  9. Sumatran_Tiger

    Sumatran_Tiger Well-Known Member

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    Maybe it was sarcasm but I replied anyway.
     
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  10. Cityzen

    Cityzen Well-Known Member

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    This is a forum where some time ago a poster said he understood why a Brazilian had opted to play for Real Madrid rather than one of the English clubs chasing him as he would find it easier to settle in Spain as they spoke the same language.<laugh>
     
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  11. Sumatran_Tiger

    Sumatran_Tiger Well-Known Member

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    Actually most Brazilians do speak Spanish additionally to Portuguese.
     
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  12. Cityzen

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    They don’t.
     
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  13. Plum

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    Blimey, I agree with you!
    Also, there's not a lot of Spanish spoken in Portugal in my experience.
     
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  14. Cityzen

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  15. Sumatran_Tiger

    Sumatran_Tiger Well-Known Member

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    Well the ones I spoke to in Spanish understood me.
     
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  16. Cityzen

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  17. Sumatran_Tiger

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  18. Cityzen

    Cityzen Well-Known Member

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    Nothing pedantic about it. You said most Brazilians speaks Spanish they don’t. My first boss was Spanish and fluent in English, Italian and German. I didn’t assume most Spaniards spoke those languages.

    BTW, a pendant.

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  19. Sumatran_Tiger

    Sumatran_Tiger Well-Known Member

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    I know ;)
     
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  20. Ullofaman

    Ullofaman Well-Known Member

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    They also speak/understand Portuguese in Uruguay in the border regions with Brasil. Brazilians find it easier to understand Galician than European Portuguese (linguistically, Galician is extremely similar to Portuguese but today is spoken with a Castillian-influenced pronunciation). Also, Brazilian Portuguese is somewhat influenced by Spanish which is a syllable-timed language whereas European Portuguese is a stressed-timed language (just like English). So all this means that Spaniards consider Portuguese to be Spanish spoken by a drunk Russian.
     
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