Me, an immigration reporter: “Por qué se fue de su país?” You, an immigration reporter: “¿Por qué viniste a los Estados Unidos?”
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Me, when I notice an immigration reporter that actually speaks Spanish but talks to someone from Central America in tú instead of usted.pic.twitter.com/UqIc1oqNwO
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Replying to @cumberland_g
I talk to my friends and some of my family in vos. I would never talk to an elder or an asylum-seeker that I was interviewing for a story in vos (exception being children under the age of 15 or so). Only in usted. Tú is especially disrespectful and ignorant imo.
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Replying to @aurabogado
I agree but, as a non-native speaker, I sometimes slip up. Argentines are also much more casual with informal pronouns.
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Replying to @cumberland_g
This is not true. Argentines knows full well the difference between vos and usted. We’re also not in Argentina and I’m specifically tweeting about reporters in the United States.
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Replying to @aurabogado
They know the difference, yes, but they're much more casual about it than other Latin Americans, in my experience. I married an Argentine, but was uncomfortable with vos for a long time.
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Replying to @cumberland_g
Again, I’m specifically tweeting about immigration reporters in the United States of America. Those that are talking to asylum seeking adults in tu, and especially in vos, are disrespecting the people they’re reporting on. It’s really not more complicated than that.
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Replying to @aurabogado
I agree in principle, certainly. I expect that at least some of those reporters are non-native speakers who do not intend to disrespect their interviewees.
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Replying to @aurabogado @cumberland_g
Late, but: I think there's a class issue in the unwillingness of some reporters to use formal pronouns. I seriously doubt they would address a Mexican governor or industrialist as 'tu'.
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