Venting thread

[Travis B.]

There’s a guy on Threads who is complaining that we call it “Havana” and not “La Habana” in English. People are replying to him talking about intervocalic lenition in Spanish and he is trying to deny it exists, citing his birth in Puerto Rico and doubling down when presented with evidence to the contrary.

Is this person one of those exonyms-are-bad people?

[Man in Space]

There’s a guy on Threads who is complaining that we call it “Havana” and not “La Habana” in English. People are replying to him talking about intervocalic lenition in Spanish and he is trying to deny it exists, citing his birth in Puerto Rico and doubling down when presented with evidence to the contrary.

Is this person one of those exonyms-are-bad people?

It appears so. He’s also from Cuba, where, according to him, /b/ does not lenite between vowels—despite evidence contradicting him. (He seems to believe that about Spanish in general.)

[Travis B.]

There’s a guy on Threads who is complaining that we call it “Havana” and not “La Habana” in English. People are replying to him talking about intervocalic lenition in Spanish and he is trying to deny it exists, citing his birth in Puerto Rico and doubling down when presented with evidence to the contrary.

Is this person one of those exonyms-are-bad people?

It appears so. He’s also from Cuba, where, according to him, /b/ does not lenite between vowels—despite evidence contradicting him. (He seems to believe that about Spanish in general.)

I wonder what his view is of the fact that we call Munich Munich and not München and Florence Florence and not Firenze in English...

[Man in Space]

I wonder what his view is of the fact that we call Munich Munich and not München and Florence Florence and not Firenze in English...

If you want to ask him, go ahead. I posted multiple YouTube videos of Cuban Spanish and finally got him to shut up about it.