Anthropological mystery of Spain that I can't get my analytical head around yet: in my school, we have a machine that generates coffee with milk for 50 cents. It's in the sala de profesores, the large room with multiple computers, couches, and tables for professors to prepare classes in. No matter who is in the room, and no matter what they are doing, if someone gets a coffee, they invite those around them to one, as well, even though it generates one at a time and very slowly, at that. I will frequently be sitting at a computer, facing away from the coffee machine and at least 10-15 meters from it, when a teacher I don't know and have never spoken with will ask me if I want a coffee. It's extremely polite, and I like it, but I just don't get it. Maybe it's just like the subjunctive--something you aren't familiar with that you just have to get used to?
Anthropological mystery of Spain that I can't get my analytical head around yet: in my school, we have a machine that generates coffee with milk for 50 cents. It's in the sala de profesores, the large room with multiple computers, couches, and tables for professors to prepare classes in. No matter who is in the room, and no matter what they are doing, if someone gets a coffee, they invite those around them to one, as well, even though it generates one at a time and very slowly, at that. I will frequently be sitting at a computer, facing away from the coffee machine and at least 10-15 meters from it, when a teacher I don't know and have never spoken with will ask me if I want a coffee. It's extremely polite, and I like it, but I just don't get it. Maybe it's just like the subjunctive--something you aren't familiar with that you just have to get used to?
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