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I got rather angry with someone today and I haven’t quite figured out why. This person was convinced that all of South America speaks “Brazilian Portuguese” and “Spanish is only spoken in Spain”. I thought he was pulling my leg, playing dumb. I started laughing, asked him what kind of school he went to. He asked what I thought people spoke in South America. When I told him “my” version of the facts he laughed and said “you’re so very wrong” and “you really are wrong about this”. Then he said: “So, explain to me why you think it’s the other way around.” For some reason I lost my cool, told him I thought this was a ridiculous conversation and we had better end it. I still think he was pulling my leg.