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Originally Posted by WeasteDevil
WTF is this all about then?
Go and look at what common Portugues people say about Gallego at Galego da Lingua.
They are either Stupid or you are seriously good with language.
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"WTF is this all about then????"
Can you even read/comprehend your own posts Weastie?
The first scenario supports my statement that Galician and Portuguese are the same languages with the only difference being the corrupt influence Castillian has on the Galician language. Hence the below statement:
"It is such a Castillianized Galego in phonetics and often in syntax and lexicon that the Portuguese thinks he is dealing with a Spaniard who is trying to speak Portuguese."
Do you understand the above comment??
"Castillianized Galego" means Galician that has been corrupted by Castillian.
If it were not for the "Castillianized" Galician, he would not be thinking it was a Spaniard he was talking to. In other words, if you piss off the Castillion influence on Galician, a Portuguese would immediately know he is speaking to a Galician due to their similar languages and not some other Castillian, Catalan or Basque person.
In the second scenario of your post, Catarina CONCLUDES she can use her own language (Portuguese) when she visits Galiza. Hence her below statement at the end:
"At first I was afraid but now I always speak in Portuguese."
It was only that cow that answered in the Castillian language that Catarina couldn't understand!! However, Catarina understood the other woman who chose to speak in Galician.
So in essence, Catarina (Portuguese speaking) didn't understand the woman that spoke Castillian but clearly understood the other that spoke Galician.