Wherein we ask each other dialect questions we don't quite understand

[Bullgrit]

For the Americans, One thing I do want to know (hopefully without being controversial) is what is the difference between Hispanic and Latino?

Well, without looking it up, I don't really know. They seem to be interchangeable, but there probably is some technical difference.

Now to go look it up.

Bullgrit

 

[Bullgrit]

Is cricket still a big thing the UK?

My neighborhood has several Indian families, and the kids play cricket in our cul de sac nearly every day. I know it's a major sport in India, but I haven't heard much of cricket in the UK in a long time. When I hear of sport in the UK, it's soccer/football.

Bullgrit

 

[Ryujin]

Well, without looking it up, I don't really know. They seem to be interchangeable, but there probably is some technical difference.

Now to go look it up.

Bullgrit

Yup, pretty much used interchangeably with the biggest difference being who is using it, rather than who it's being used upon. Latino means Latin American, or of Latin American descent. That covers Mexico, central America, and almost all of South America. Hispanic refers to descendants of people from Spain, Portugal, and other nations in that peninsular area of Europe.

 

[Morrus]

Is cricket still a big thing the UK?

Yeah. It's a pretty major worldwide sport, although I've never paid it even the slightest bit of attention. Plus it's one of the sports kids play at school, along with football, rugby, etc. Rugby's pretty major, too, but again not something I pay attention to. We have lots of sports.

 

[Ryujin]

Yeah. It's a pretty major worldwide sport, although I've never paid it even the slightest bit of attention. Plus it's one of the sports kids play at school, along with football, rugby, etc. Rugby's pretty major, too, but again not something I pay attention to. We have lots of sports.

'Less it involves the hurling of tree trunks or big rocks on sticks, 'tis na game

The city I live in, Brampton, Canada, is something like 40% South Asian. There are more than a few Cricket teams, though I've never been to a game.

 

[Tonguez]

Yeah. It's a pretty major worldwide sport, although I've never paid it even the slightest bit of attention. Plus it's one of the sports kids play at school, along with football, rugby, etc. Rugby's pretty major, too, but again not something I pay attention to. We have lots of sports.

you guys don't have a tradition of family picnics playing non-stop cricket on the beach? - is that an antipodean thing? wow so Britain really is all about organised hooliganism


Anyway slightly tangential what parts of South America are NOT part of Latin America?

 

[Morrus]

you guys don't have a tradition of family picnics playing non-stop cricket on the beach? - is that an antipodean thing?

Beach? Britain?

 

[Tonguez]

Beach? Britain?

yeh as I wrote beach I was thinking maybe I should change that to cricket on the commons

although I did discover (via google) that beach cricket is played on the Goodwin Sands in Kent and East Neuk of Fife

 

[Ryujin]

Beach? Britain?

That's how you refer to those rock-strewn sections of shoreline, isn't it?

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

That's how you refer to those rock-strewn sections of shoreline, isn't it?

As long as we'r not talking pure cliff sides, even a rocky beach is still a beach.

Consider Glass Beach, in California.



As for cricket...I've seen snippets of matches, but have never seen a whole game. I don't even understand the scoring system.