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<DIV>In a message dated 6/28/2005 7:37:11 AM Pacific Standard Time, Bodhikt writes:</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>In a message dated 6/27/2005 8:49:23 PM Pacific Standard Time, rage@engr.colostate.edu writes:</FONT></DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: blue 2px solid"><FONT face=Arial size=2>>>If you say that they will immediately recognize you as a gringo and will <BR>be in trouble, so you should say :<BR>"Donde ESTA la Farmacia de Groo?"<<</FONT></BLOCKQUOTE>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Thanks-- or rather, "Much grass", as they say here near the border.... I seriously doubt anybody would mistake me for anything BUT a gringa, anyway, though. Most of my Spanish lessons came from living in East LA about 40 years ago-- more Spanglish than Spanish, and baby-talk Spanglish at that.</FONT></DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: blue 2px solid"><FONT face=Arial size=2>>>And San Diego is full of badly written Spanish in the public transport <BR>system. You would figure that being so close to Mexico they would hire <BR>someone who actually speaks Spanish, but I guess they don't really care.<<</FONT></BLOCKQUOTE>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Well, they don't seem to have all that many people who can speak/read/write proper English, either, so they may just have a policy of hiring illiterates. Either that, or somebody has a secret agenda of promoting the Border patois-- you know: the "We went to la marketa en mi carro" sort of phrasing.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT lang=0 face=Arial size=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" PTSIZE="10">Kaytee<BR>"God may be One, but God loves diversity". Horaku</FONT></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV>
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