Thanks for clearing up the difference between the two. I thought they were the same. I've taken 6 years of Spanish in school. The problem is they don't teach casual, conversational Spanish and/or slang. <It's similar to if when teaching English, everybody outside of school spoke in ebonics. Like, that's nice to know how to formally address a crowd of suits, but I'm trying to talk to the locals and it might as well be a different language...>
I was trying to be a smartass with him. Like ..."Hey guero" "Hey pendejo" but yea, I think that's a straight up insult. But maybe not. I mean, in English, I can walk into a store and go "Oi ****ers!" and make it a positive thing with tone of voice. <I'm a regular customer, I don't try that with strangers>
Thanks for trying, though!
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