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86944 wrote

I can order food and ask where the toilet is in Spanish. I can also make certain that the food isn't just meatless but also without pollo and pescado. Because a lot of people from South America think that chicken and fish isn't meat for some reason.

I found an article recently about communicating during a disaster, and how translating tornado to Spanish doesn't always convey the urgency of the situation.

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masque wrote (edited )

If carne doesn't include chicken/fish in South American Spanish, that doesn't mean that people from South America "think that chicken and fish isn't meat," it just means that the word "meat" and the word "carne" are not fully synonymous.

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loukanikos wrote

I believe the word carne means both meat and beef depending on the context, which probably explains that confusion

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