Say, Al Sharpton: if Herman Cain lacks “intelligence” for colloquially referring to “Cuban” as a language, how about Barack Obama . . . who did precisely the same thing when it came to “Austrian”?
On his MSNBC show tonight, Sharpton mocked Cain for asking in an aside while munching on a Cuban delicacy during a campaign stop: “how do you say ‘delicious’ in Cuban?” Does Sharpton not know that Barack Obama, in a much more formal setting, addressing a NATO audience, said something virtually identical, wondering how a certain phrase was said “in Austrian”?
How do you say “hypocritical double standard”–in any language?
AL SHARPTON: Herman Cain was in Miami today. And Herman Cain did it again. I didn’t think he could, but he did. He talked about freeing Cuba. Now we all know he’s had challenges in foreign policy. Let me show you this.
Cut to a clip of Cain at a campaign event, munching on a Cuban delicacy. A man in the crowd explains it’s called “croquetta.”
It’s a stupid ‘gotcha’ in both cases. Austrian and Cuban are both distinctive dialects, but even if they weren’t, why would a moment of confusion as to the language matter?
Have you ever listened to Cuban Spanish?
In Cuba Spanish is spoken very quickly, with a number of colloquialisms, and a unique accent.
One cannot comprehend it, if one has only standard classroom Spanish instruction.
Tune into Cuban radio from Florida if you doubt me.
It may not technically be a separate language, but Cuban Spanish is certainly a distinct dialect.
It reminds me of the difficulty faced by nannies hired to work with families in the Midwest.
So Sharpton is not particularly well-informed.
Miami Super Q, great cuban music radio but forget about catching any regular espanoile. there is no castilian lisp in cuban which is a way cubans can tell other cubans. as a group they remain very-very cautious to enemy infiltration so the dialects vary on purpose. sharpton is a castroite which is reason he is never seen around calle ocho. in south florida cubans doing business with other cubans must have connective family and speak with the right intonations.