Went to the local Mexican joint, waiter started talking to my Filipina wife in Spanish. She gamely answered back with a word or two, was obviously confused.

Now I'm scared that people will think I'm mistaking them for Mexican when I toss out a word or two.

Just to fuck with my wife; She was talking to a friend in Tagalog when I walked in the kitchen.

"Hey! It's $friend on the phone! Say hi!"

"Nǐhǎo."

[–] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 14 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

It's worth noting that Tagalog and some other Filipino languages share a pretty large vocabulary with Spanish actually. Of course they have huge differences in other ways but she may have actually understood a bit.

That wasn't the point of the comment though I know.