…s caused mainly by people speaking Spanish. It seems to be a language geared up mainly for spitting on people. Rolling the 'r's, the velar frictive 'j', the lisping 'z's: what the hell's going on here? Oh well, at least the vocabulary and grammar seem relatively simple in comparison to certain languages I could mention.
Incidentally, a good site for examing just how different languages can (and could) be is the Primer in SF Xenolinguistics. Yes, I know it's about science fiction languages, but it makes some good points about actual languages, too.
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