I assumed they meant thanks but a Google search doesn’t give me that kind of result. What does dinata mean and what language is it from?

  • Lvxferre@mander.xyz
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    8 months ago

    [Additional tidbit]

    Pronunciation-wise it’s typically different, although in a weird way - both languages allow some variation depending on the speaker’s variety, but they don’t coincide. For example in Portuguese you could get [dɨˑ’näðɐ̥ˑ], [de’nädɐ], [dʒi’nadɐ̥ˑ], depending on where the speaker is from, but AFAIK you won’t find Spanish-like [ð] without a completely “un-Spanish-like” vowel reduction. In the meantime I kind of expect some Caribbean Spanish speakers to render the expression as [de’nää] de na’a.

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      8 months ago

      Very good point, in hindsight I should probably have clarified I was focusing on the written form when I replied