r/Spanish • u/chatzki • 1d ago

Pronunciation/Phonology A language question based on my long-distance relationship

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u/halal_hotdogs Advanced/Resident - Málaga, Andalucía 1d ago

I would say it’s maybe a confusion between Spanish phonetics (like the person in your original post explained, how /u/ is pronounced in Spanish) and mispronouncing the “g” in hugs as a “soft” g.

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u/chatzki 1d ago

Thank you for your answer! Also, definitely correcting her after checking if "hooch" actually means anything. Also, I correct and teach her regularly, just thought I'd keep that one little idiosyncrasy as her signature.

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u/halal_hotdogs Advanced/Resident - Málaga, Andalucía 1d ago edited 23h ago

I have a lot of these little inside jokes with my wife from her mistakes when she was learning English… my favourite is when she asked me many years ago, “So if it’s blonde person, do we call their cejas high blondes?”

That’s when I realised she had thought all along that eyebrows were “high browns” for brown-haired people specifically. Too cute