Also, Spain Spanish is not necessarily "Standard" (Castilian) Spanish.
I’ll just say: kuchen, cachái.
Which other modern language uses cachái, with the same spelling, in the same context as Chile?
> I can't recall any other German loanwords aside from kuchen.
Still influenced the dialect, didn’t it?
> Still influenced the dialect, didn’t it?
A few food names do not qualify as "influenced the dialect" for me. Mapudungun did influence the Chilean dialect, but German did not. I generally find the "German influence in the south" very exaggarated and a cover-up for the fact that the primary influences in the south have always come from Mapuche culture.
But there's a broad veneration of Germans and other Europeans, combined with a disdain towards indigenous peoples and their cultures, so the "German South" myth withstands, along with that one photo of Puerto Varas taken from the right angle to make it look like a German town.
This is correct. Case in point: Beamer.
> A few food names do not qualify as "influenced the dialect" for me.
For you. That doesn’t change the fact that the term has widespread use all over the national territory.
> Mapudungun did influence the Chilean dialect
If you want to stress the point, I’d additionally argue that a larger amount of indigenous-derived terms (including several words for vegetables) came from the Quechua. Although, according to your own set of criteria, a few food names would not qualify.
Your conclusion is then that Chilean Spanish has no Quechua language influence in any serious way?
> the only linguistic legacy of Germans in Chile are kuchen, strudel, and some weird last names used as street names
You forgot bocha, polca, and murra.
> murra
It's mora down here.
To desert, v, stress on the second syllable, means to leave/abandon something.
Desert, n, stress on the second syllable, is what you deserve "he got his just deserts"
Dessert, n, stress on the second syllable, is a sweet course of a meal that follows the main course. It has an extra s because of its etymology not its pronunciation.
I'm quite sure this mess was designed to be as confusing as possible.