• dave@hal9000@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      I am a fluent English speaker (in the US for a few decades) who knows Spanish (native speaker of Portuguese which also uses vamos), and thinks about etymology all the time - it never occurred to me lol. I just thought it was some weird old timey american thing lol

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      1 year ago

      I thought it funniest that “vamoose” is even considered a separate thing and not just Americans using a Spanish word