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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

~~Most~~ The first majority of Spanish speaking people are Mexican. We ask for café negro. Now, the interesting part is that if you want a café negro in any cafe, and you feel awkward about it, you can ask for a café americano. It's curious how the café negro in this setup is the "American coffee". Then again, we don't think America is America, we understand America as the Americas.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

In Mexico, I suppose.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

My guy have you met south America

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Unfortunately not, but I'm clearly talking about countries. I'm not saying every Spanish speaking country should use "cafe negro", I was just stating that a good chunk of Spanish speaking people do use "cafe negro".

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'm just saying, that "most Spanish speaking people are Mexican" is dangerously doing a heavy lifting. Take that as you will

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Sure, I'm living on the edge.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Most Spanish speaking people are Mexican.

We're all on the internet. Why make things up when people (including yourself) can fact check?

Spanish Speakers: Native: 500 million - Total: 600 million

México - population of almost 130 million

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Sure I worded this weirdly. As far as nationalities go, there is no other country in the world with more Spanish speaking people, by far. There. But that wasn't even the point. The point was that >100 million Spanish speaking people would ask for "café negro".

EDIT: Merriam Webster accepts "most" as a synonym for "greatest in quantity, extent or degree", which is not necessarily at least half plus one. Then again, I'm not a native English speaker. I edited the original comment to be clear.