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RoyalShield 4 months ago • 8 views

I told someone at my work that the Spanish word for tortilla is "tortilla" and it completely blew their mind 😭

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Gerg 4 months ago
Hold on.
How did you pronounce it?
- RoyalShield 4 months ago
  Tore-TEE-uhh
- Gerg 4 months ago
  Well it's wrong. At least in Spanish it's wrong. It's "torr-TEE-ja" ( J sounding as in "jew").
- RoyalShield 4 months ago
  Which Spanish?
- Gerg 4 months ago
  Every Spanish, technically. The "LL" diagraph has that pronunciation. In practice too, every dialect I've seen does it.
- RoyalShield 4 months ago
- RoyalShield 4 months ago
  The Argentinians pronounce it with a sort of "zh" sound, which is kind of a soft j. Maybe that is what you are thinking of?
- RoyalShield 4 months ago
  For the sake of multiple sources
- Gerg 4 months ago (edited)
  You're right. Argentineans and Uruguayans do have that pronunciation. I forgot. But no. I do mean a strong j sound. It's standard Spanish orthography.
- RoyalShield 4 months ago
  It's literally not bro. You can look it up if you want to, (or watch the videos I sent you).
  
  If you're goal was to make me think I was going crazy for about 60 seconds then you succeeded, but I looked it up, and the hard J sound isn't even in the Spanish language as far as I know.
  
  What country do you live in? Maybe you have a more obscure dialect.
- Gerg 4 months ago
  I'm from Costa Rica. We probably have the most neutral accent excluding Peru.
  It's a hard J, though I think Spaniards do soften it slightly, which is probably one of the reasons Google translate doesn't return that. But even then, it's closer to j than y. Listen carefully.