Re: CHAT: I need help with the concept "New World Spanish"

Roberto Suarez Soto scripsit:

>         I agree with this. Saving a few dialectal differences,
> "standard" spanish is the same, grammatically. In fact, you can read
> books of south-american writers and books of spanish writers and the
> only differences you'll find will be in some vocabulary, if any.
And is it likely -- I'm talking about ordinary prose here, neither
fine literature nor local dialect here -- that the vocabulary is
going to line up with the Americans on one side of the line and the
Peninsulars on the other?

> (i.e., use "computadora" instead of "ordenador", and avoid
> conflictive words like "coger").
Seems like we're getting somewhere.  Is "computadora" going to be
unacceptable (odd-looking, strange, alienating, annoying) to readers
in Spain?

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