Catalunya? I know a guy from that region, Ruben Aramburo. He gets a real hoot out of Mexican Spanish so another guy at work who is fluent in a couple of Spanish "dialects" jokes around with him in the most outrageous "East Los" dialect imaginable, sort of Low Rider ala Cantinflas. I don't have enough Spanish to follow everything but the accent alone is a hoot. Our Catalan buddy breaks up to the point of incoherence.

Makes sense that the word, gavatxo, refers to the French and is also derogatory!

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