#i'm so sorry...... this is why everyone clocks you as a foreigner...... it's 'conducir'

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@pretty-rage-machine commmented:

never spent time in spain - is mandar "send" there also?

sorry-- i tried to reply via comment but tumblr killed this effort. :/

i’m.... hesitant to tell you anything without a disclaimer because I’m a non-native speaker who technically learned latin american spanish in school and then only got good at in spain........... so in the US usually people are like “wow, is one of your parents spanish?” and in spain they’re usually like, “oh, that word you keep saying.......... did you learn it in Mexico?!”

but! in spain i mostly heard mandar being used as “to command/to control.” (as in: a remote control for a TV is un mando.) for “to send” i’d probably say “enviar” (ex- le envié un postal a mi tía). i low key forget mandar could also be like “te mandaré un cartel.” so..... i assume that iberian spanish uses mandar/enviar like i’ve described but AGAIN! not a native speaker. 

#i do welcome native speakers to weigh in #sometimes i have been taight either via a teacher or a friend calling me out #what's an iberian word and what's not..... but today i'm less sure #like one time an american friend in mallorca kept saying 'manejar' for 'to drive' and i had to be like #i'm so sorry...... this is why everyone clocks you as a foreigner...... it's 'conducir' #it'd also unclear to me how well spanish ppl understand latin americans #(like-- enviar vs mandar or manejar vs conducir #) #because they'll put subtitles on LA spanish speaker EVEN WHENN i-- a foreigner-- is like 'okay but they speak clearer than #someone with a strong andalucia accent' #anyway today grammar awful because #1) celebratory wine and then 2) tumblr/my keyboard being EXTRA WEIRD?! #the rain in spain