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Old 11-20-2007
Gloria Gloria is offline
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Re: Spanish King tells Venezuelan President to 'shut up' during summit

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Originally Posted by Slartibartfas View Post
I read that the term that is used in Spanish for the similar mean of "shut up" is far more rude... but I have far too little Spanish knowledge to judge that.

Furthermore I read somewhere that the king uses the informal "you" often.
It is disrespectful to tell someone to 'shut up' in that way, the king did not even use the formal 'se' (por qué no se calla) and used the informal "te" (por qué no te callas). You don't expect to hear that from a third level state diplomat much less from a King .

Last edited by Gloria; 11-20-2007 at 02:04 PM.
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