Wherever we go, there we are

[cosmolinguist]

We might be doing something uncharacteristic for us in taking an all-inclusive package holiday at all, l but D and I are so very ourselves.

He's been studying maps of the town and the island, and I've been reading about the local language varieties.

That page starts with

Canarian Spanish heavily influenced the development of Caribbean Spanish and other Latin American Spanish vernaculars because Hispanic America was originally largely settled by colonists from the Canary Islands...

Which is news to my ears because my only education in Spanish was in a high school in the U.S., so of course I learned the Spanish standards of the Americas rather than of Europe. My high school Spanish is actually doing a surprisingly good job here. I can't believe I remember as much as I do!

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[jesse_the_k]

Yesssss!

I've been an English language partner for the past two years with a Chilean trailing spouse, and wow there are lots of Spanishes!

[cosmolinguist]

Sure, as many as there are Englishes no doubt and for similar reasons. A Puerto Rican friend who lived in the U.S. told me once about the intricate opinions she had about speakers of Mexican Spanish, Cuban Spanish, and all the other Spanishes she encountered.

[cosmolinguist]

Oh that sounds like an interesting thing for you to get to do!