The Word Puro w/Poll

[shilala]

Originally Posted by bobarian

Its amazing how we American's find it necessary to force those who speak other languages to conform to our bastardized usage of their colloquialisms.

Why is it so important that others use their language the way we see fit?

I'm guessing you're asking why people expect people in the same country to use the same words to describe the same things? If so, Joe covered it really well up above.
Otherwise, if everyone calls a spoon something different, it'd really make it a pain in the ass to ask a waitress to get me something with which to eat my soup.