VC: after 3 years in Argentina, Argentine Spanish still confuses me daily
StewartalsopIII · x · 2026-10-14
Investor Stewart Alsop III has spoken Spanish since 2010, when he got a flat tire in Chiapas, Mexico while riding a motorcycle from California to Peru. He's confident he'd never misread a message from Colombians, Mexicans, Peruvians or Brazilians — but after three years in Argentina, it's still a daily experience. The Argentina–Italy integration, he says, caused a highly creative rift in the language, full of unconventional ways to say things.
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