For reference, San Diego and Tijuana back right up to each other and have one of the busiest border crossings in the country.
You’re going to hear Spanish there.
Now that's an interesting question
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Maggoty@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Tryenjer@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
San Diego would be Saint James.
misteloct@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
Best we can do is Saint America.
lord_ryvan@ttrpg.network 20 hours ago
It’s wild that the name Diego becomes James in English!
I would’ve thought of Daniel or something but no, JAMES
Maggoty@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
That’s interesting and all but many Spanish speaking people have had family on this side of the border since California was a Mexican territory.
MasterBuilder@lemmy.one 1 day ago
Well, California was a Spanish colony, sfter all.
Mexigore@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
Not only it used to be a Mexican State
tacobellhop@midwest.social 9 hours ago
Whales vagina
MrFappy@lemmy.world 1 day ago
The accurate response to this is “a whale’s vagina.” Idk how one can live there and not know this.
JoeBigelow@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
Scholars maintain that the translation was lost long ago!
orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
Woof. Ibsaid something similar before seeing your comment.
ICastFist@programming.dev 19 hours ago
Foreigner here, what’s the joke there?
beccaboben@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
It’s from the movie Anchorman with Will Ferrell, it’s his pickup line on a date.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 22 hours ago
“A whale’s vagina.”
DJDarren@sopuli.xyz 20 hours ago
Go fuck yourself, San Diego.
Jerb322@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
Let agree to disagree…
ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 12 hours ago
Mr James?
RizzoTheSmall@lemm.ee 19 hours ago
Saint Jack
undeffeined@lemmy.ml 19 hours ago
From what I could gather, Diego appears to come from Thiago. Thid means that San Diego would be Saint James.
meliaesc@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
It’s named after Saint Didacus, who went by Diego, I guess.
ThatGuy46475@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
Sandy eggo
GratefullyGodless@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
“Let go my sandy eggo!” Just doesn’t sound very appetizing.
Slam_Eye@lemmy.ca 19 hours ago
Oh heck yeah friggin racist le epic owned
slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.org 13 hours ago
People clapped so hard their hands hurt.
BilboBargains@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
And then we all clapped
AlolanYoda@mander.xyz 1 day ago
I have seen variations on this online for a long time, and this has always baffled me: do strangers in America really go up to random people who are speaking foreign languages and tell them “you are in X, speak Xese”, a language they may or may not speak? Even among people who share their native language?
makyo@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Yeah there’s a segment of arrogant racist halfwit conservatives that get a superiority kick out of demeaning people for stuff like that.
theparadox@lemmy.world 1 day ago
When I was a kid my mother’s boyfriend bragged of doing exactly this. He heard them having a conversation in another language at a gas station, approached them, and started speaking to them in German. When they were confused he allegedly said exactly the phrase. You are in America, speak English. He thought it was hysterical.
He may have been full of shit, but the fact that he felt it worth bragging about said enough about him.
JustAnotherKay@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Sadly, but also a bit humorously, yes.
atempuser23@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
You can get the same in Quebec for speaking English.
MasterBuilder@lemmy.one 1 day ago
This stuff is embarassimg. I swear, next time i travel I’m gonna have to claim I am Canadian.
The stupid - it burns!
beejboytyson@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
Don’t pedestalize Canadians. We’re just as dumb and racist. Remember, ppl are unironically fighting for private health care.
MasterBuilder@lemmy.one 14 hours ago
I didn’t intend to do that. I realize you also have a growing right-wing that is on the same page as ours, and there are other excesses, along with insane housing issues.
I also feel like the ire of the world is not as strongly directed at you. We have decadea of negative stereotypes. It comes from being “in your face” for so long and having such outsize influence in the world.
I remember encountering several negative ideas during my term abroad in Europe during college and was very careful to avoid reinforcing any of them.
afronaut@slrpnk.net 20 hours ago
Why? They’re just as stupidly racist.
Obi@sopuli.xyz 16 hours ago
It’s an old tactic used by American travellers, put a Canadian flag cap or patch on the bag and present themselves as Canadian to avoid the negative stereotypes, I’ve personally talked to more than one American doing this in my life and read about it more often online too. I guess it’s only gonna get more popular.
MasterBuilder@lemmy.one 14 hours ago
Yeah, i know. See my other reply from moments ago. I’ve never heard the term “ugly Canadian” or railingvagainst their imperialist culture abroad. I’ve seen some latent sense of superiority over them (especially wrt frankophones) but not outright hatred. They aren’t treated like a threat, from my limited experience, and that was before our government went Fascist.
someguy3@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
I heard there’s a tariff on those Canadian pins and badges.
MasterBuilder@lemmy.one 9 hours ago
I’ll pick them up in the tax-free section of the airport! :)
slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.org 13 hours ago
The racism or the made up story?
MasterBuilder@lemmy.one 9 hours ago
Both. Sure, the actual exchange might be made-up. The problem is that it’s entirely plausible it is real. I’ve seen this kind of exchange happen on video (which of course could also be made up). It’s common for television shows to do stories on what the “person on the street” knows about some topic. For local news stories, it’s usually to showcase how poorly educated “the youths” are today.
Periodically a reporter will go to a public place and showcase how people answer questions that arguably should be fairly easy to answer with an elementary school education or if they check in with some news source regularly and actually understand the topic. The worst ones are where they are “confidently incorrect”.
Jimmy Kimmel does this regularly for laughs. I’ve seen several examples going back decades from various local news programs. In all cases, I’m confident they are showing the 10% of interviewees that were the most clueless, and not showing the other 90%. Still, the level of cluelessness on the ones they do show is often truly frightening.
3laws@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
Mi vida, llevo 30 años viviendo en esta frontera, 0% falsa la historia; pasa todo el día en todas partes.
griff@lemmings.world 1 day ago
Hey, what’s the English word for California??
psoul@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Technically, Caliphate. Califia was the queen of the made up kingdom of California in a 16th century novel.
The name of Calafia was likely formed from the Arabic word khalifa (religious state leader) that is known as caliph in English and califa in Spanish.
tetris11@lemmy.ml 23 hours ago
That’s the dumbest and most beautiful premise for naming a place that I’ve seen
voodooattack@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
And Khalifa (خليفة) in the Arabic language literally means successor/inheritor (aside from the religious connotations), so there is some trivia for the day.
orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
If she had responded with “A Whale’s Vagina,” I would have died.
darklamer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 hours ago
Wikipedia knows what saint the city was named after: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Diego#Name
someguy3@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
Sand the eggo.
LithiumX@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
[deleted]Flocklesscrow@lemm.ee 19 hours ago
Especially ironic in San Diego, where literally anywhere in the city is a mere 15 minute drive to the Mexican border.
San Diego is full of the wildly entitled and elderly though, so the self-selecting personalities can’t be a surprise for anyone who has lived there.
aesthelete@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
It’d really be a pleasant place to live if it weren’t for the huge amount of selfish, entitled fucking pricks that do.
hddsx@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
Saint James…
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 1 day ago
The point being she didn’t know.
chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Without Doug.
franzcoz@feddit.cl 1 day ago
Without = Sin Saint = San
TheBat@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Saint Doug
WhatYouNeed@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
Douglas?
ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 22 hours ago
Saint James
Maeve@midwest.social 13 hours ago
St Jacob
roguetrick@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Is it an interesting question @ptz@dubvee.org
Thteven@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Lmao, if you live in San Diego and can’t handle Spanish you’re gonna have a bad time.
bobs_monkey@lemm.ee 1 day ago
All of Southern California really.
My favorite is when dickhead white folks want “all the brown people to go back where they came from,” without the slightest clue that they were here first, and then they get real pussy when you point that fact out.
ramble81@lemm.ee 1 day ago
Yeah I point out that Texas used to actually be part of Mexico and the border moved, not the people.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I live in a white flight town in the bay area. We’re still 20% Hispanic. Maybe Shasta?
ramble81@lemm.ee 1 day ago
Yeah I point out that Texas used to actually be part of Mexico and the border moved, not the people.