latino

My understanding is that you do. When Dan Quale was running for vice president, he once said he wanted to study Latin, so he could converse with all his friends in Latin America. (I'm sure you know they speak Portugese in Brazil.)

It's actually an American-Spanish term for someone of "Hispanic" origin.

- A.

P.S. I see you just ticked off another grand!

HHAHA.
One more question, Are latino and hispanic interchangeable?

What did I do? What does another grand mean?

Avangi. I see you just ticked off another grand!

Just to make sure I get it right, anyone from Latin America (South and Central Americas) can be called latino or Hispanic, right?

I should let someone who's more knowledgable address this. In my experience (my wife is a Colombiana, but I speak very little Spanish) "Hispanic" is an adjective first and a noun second, while "Latino/Latina" is a noun first and an adjective second. I honestly don't know if it's correct to call a Spaniard a Latino. Cubans are usually called Cubans, rather than Latinos. I think Puerto Ricans

I know what a grand is but I thought it had another meaning. It turns out I misunderstood the meaning of tick off.

What I understand is as follows:
tick off Informal
To make angry or annoyed: Constant delays ticked me off.

You're right about "tick off." I'm not sure of the origin of the other meaning. Perhaps it comes from "ticker tape," the old fashioned machine that announced changes in stock prices. I think of some kind of clock-like device which keeps count.

I could be completely wrong. I believe the expression sometimes means "to enumerate." "He just ticked off fourteen reasons why we should not

I'll take it to mean 'count'.

I would like to hear from another native about latino and hispanic. I'm still lost on that.

Here's an article I found:
http://www.nbcsandiego.com/hispanicheritage/2442140/detail.html

To sum up, Hispanic originally was someone from a spanish-speaking country, Latino was originally so