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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSomeone just posted this on Facebook. Pretty cool.
A lady just came up to me and said "Speak English, we are in San Diego." So I politely responded by asking her how do I say 'San Diego' in English?"
The look of bewilderment on her face made it feel like a Friday.

NotHardly
(2,115 posts)sakabatou
(44,952 posts)[in Japanese] English? Who the hell do you think you are? Do you know Japanese? Do you speak Japanese? (beat) Ah, so you don't. That's unfortunate. Buh-bye, you stupid idiot.
YoshidaYui
(43,870 posts)Nihongo wakarimasu!
sakabatou
(44,952 posts)Don't ask about reading, because I'd completely flop.
I tried Spanish way back, but the cassette tapes you'd practice from got too quick for me to understand.
yellow dahlia
(2,575 posts)republianmushroom
(20,295 posts)GarColga
(155 posts)Saint James.
littlemissmartypants
(28,240 posts)niyad
(124,585 posts)Godot51
(502 posts)... St. Jacob. or, more commonly, James.
SCantiGOP
(14,504 posts)If you translate the name The Los Angeles Angels into all English, it comes out as The The Angels Angels.
AllaN01Bear
(25,798 posts)AllaN01Bear
(25,798 posts)"The Town of Our Lady the Queen of the Angels of the River Porciúncula
AllaN01Bear
(25,798 posts)ful name of town, de las oso de la sonoras ( place of the bull and bear.) put that on a regular envelope
LauraInLA
(2,189 posts)Bluetus
(1,182 posts)MasonDreams
(769 posts)Eureka is Greek yes? I digress, El Paso Corpus Christi remember the Alamo? oops forget that? 🤣 Can't we all just get along?
Yes We Can! And that is (believe it or not) One of the many qualities that define my USA. We're great without the dictratitor in chief.
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barbtries
(30,511 posts)Playa del Rey, Palos Verdes, Hermosa, Redondo, San Pedro, Mendocino, and more.
California is Mexican. vive la difference, fuck her bigotry and ignorance.
Skittles
(165,227 posts)she'd say, "I'M speaking English; YOU have an accent."
BigmanPigman
(53,230 posts)She isn't going to be saying that to many people without getting a royal smack down.
Over 60,000 attended the NO KINGS protest here and the immigrant/deportation issue was the main issue represented at the protest. I was there and I know.
I think the tRumpers in San Diego are realizing just how much they are hated and this is a new thing for them. They are terrible non-humans who see that their once RED city is and has been BLUE for at least 15 years. I was discussing this with someone at the protest. He said the same thing is gong on in areas of LA which used to be RED.
Their vocal, liberal hating majority is and has been the minority and they do not like it and are being even more asinine than ever, if that is even possible.
calimary
(86,762 posts)And I love how you described it, Swede.
The look of bewilderment on her face made it feel like a Friday.
Freakin FABULOUS!!!
gopiscrap
(24,402 posts)in Tacoma WA and once being told by some snotty lady at the supermarket to "speak English, you're in America now_ and mom looked at the lady and told her to go read the plaque on the Statue of Liberty and took me by the hand walked off before the lady could answer back
markbark
(1,610 posts)rendered in English would be either Saint James or Saint Jacob (depending on who you ask )
IrishBubbaLiberal
(2,248 posts)Racist ignorant Republicans
are everywhere
..
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And the ignorant MAGA Texas Republicans that complain
Stop speaking Mexican, this is America.
As the idiot Texans are literally standing on land
that was New Spain for over 300 years, and then part of Mexico.
Anglo Texans, racists
Tejas land
New Spain
1519 to 1821
Part of Mexico
1821-1836
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Spain
usonian
(18,531 posts)and if they don't know, Aún mejor.
SpankMe
(3,500 posts)The Royal Town of the Holy Faith of Saint Francis of Assisi. This is the long form name for Santa Fe, NM.
Martin68
(25,983 posts)