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Levike wrote:I find it really funny that mostly Greeks/Spanish/Turks/Arabs do this.
IpseDixit wrote:Levike wrote:I find it really funny that mostly Greeks/Spanish/Turks/Arabs do this.
Do they? I remember having a talk with loqu where we basically agreed that the stereotype of Spaniards (but also Italians apparently) calling everyone amico/amigo is utterly false and a bit annoying because then you always have some foreigners calling you amico/amigo and personally the only thing I can think of is "OMG how creepy".
I don't even call amico my actual friends. In Italy people are called by their name, and actually over here in Tuscany (maybe in other region of the country as well, but I don't know) guys often call other guys by their surname (or a shortened version of it).
IpseDixit wrote:I don't even call amico my actual friends. In Italy people are called by their name, and actually over here in Tuscany (maybe in other regions of the country as well, but I don't know) guys often call other guys by their surname (or a shortened version of it).
Car wrote:The guys calling other guys y their surname thing also exists in Germany.
I heard of this stereotype before coming here just to find out that it's true.Vlürch wrote:He's really nice so I thought it's just that but maybe it is a cultural thing.
Levike wrote:But is it just a habit of yours calling him "elder brother"
Couldn't you just call him "bro"?
IpseDixit wrote:I don't even call amico my actual friends. In Italy people are called by their name, and actually over here in Tuscany (maybe in other regions of the country as well, but I don't know) guys often call other guys by their surname (or a shortened version of it).
To me, this sort of implies you are friends from school, since (in my high school at least) it was common to address students by their bare surnames. There are classmates I remember from back then and don't have a clue what their given names were.Car wrote:IpseDixit wrote:I don't even call amico my actual friends. In Italy people are called by their name, and actually over here in Tuscany (maybe in other regions of the country as well, but I don't know) guys often call other guys by their surname (or a shortened version of it).
The guys calling other guys y their surname thing also exists in Germany.
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