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 month ago
Tryenjer@lemmy.world 1 month ago
San Diego would be Saint James.
lord_ryvan@ttrpg.network 1 month ago
It’s wild that the name Diego becomes James in English!
I would’ve thought of Daniel or something but no, JAMES
misteloct@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Best we can do is Saint America.
Maggoty@lemmy.world 1 month 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.
Spaniard@lemmy.world 1 month ago
James is Santiago in Spanish.
MasterBuilder@lemmy.one 1 month ago
Well, California was a Spanish colony, sfter all.
Mexigore@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Not only it used to be a Mexican State
MrFappy@lemmy.world 1 month 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 month ago
Scholars maintain that the translation was lost long ago!
orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
Woof. Ibsaid something similar before seeing your comment.
ICastFist@programming.dev 1 month ago
Foreigner here, what’s the joke there?
beccaboben@lemmy.world 1 month ago
It’s from the movie Anchorman with Will Ferrell, it’s his pickup line on a date.
AlolanYoda@mander.xyz 1 month 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 month 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 month 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 month ago
Sadly, but also a bit humorously, yes.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 1 month ago
“A whale’s vagina.”
DJDarren@sopuli.xyz 1 month ago
Go fuck yourself, San Diego.
Jerb322@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Let agree to disagree…
orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
If she had responded with “A Whale’s Vagina,” I would have died.
griff@lemmings.world 1 month ago
Hey, what’s the English word for California??
psoul@lemmy.world 1 month 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 1 month ago
That’s the dumbest and most beautiful premise for naming a place that I’ve seen
voodooattack@lemmy.world 1 month 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.
Slam_Eye@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
Oh heck yeah friggin racist le epic owned
slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.org 1 month ago
People clapped so hard their hands hurt.
BilboBargains@lemmy.world 1 month ago
And then we all clapped
MasterBuilder@lemmy.one 1 month 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 1 month ago
Don’t pedestalize Canadians. We’re just as dumb and racist. Remember, ppl are unironically fighting for private health care.
MasterBuilder@lemmy.one 1 month 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.
someguy3@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I heard there’s a tariff on those Canadian pins and badges.
MasterBuilder@lemmy.one 1 month ago
I’ll pick them up in the tax-free section of the airport! :)
slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.org 1 month ago
The racism or the made up story?
3laws@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Mi vida, llevo 30 años viviendo en esta frontera, 0% falsa la historia; pasa todo el día en todas partes.
MasterBuilder@lemmy.one 1 month 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.
afronaut@slrpnk.net 1 month ago
Why? They’re just as stupidly racist.
RizzoTheSmall@lemm.ee 1 month ago
Saint Jack
undeffeined@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
From what I could gather, Diego appears to come from Thiago. Thid means that San Diego would be Saint James.
meliaesc@lemmy.world 1 month ago
It’s named after Saint Didacus, who went by Diego, I guess.
ThatGuy46475@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Sandy eggo
GratefullyGodless@lemmy.world 1 month ago
“Let go my sandy eggo!” Just doesn’t sound very appetizing.
hddsx@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
Saint James…
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 1 month ago
The point being she didn’t know.
tacobellhop@midwest.social 1 month ago
Whales vagina
PahdyGnome@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Agree to disagree
tacobellhop@midwest.social 1 month ago
I saw that. You should probably lay low for a while.
ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
Mr James?
chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Without Doug.
franzcoz@feddit.cl 1 month ago
Without = Sin Saint = San
TheBat@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Saint Doug
ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 1 month ago
Saint James
WhatYouNeed@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Douglas?
someguy3@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Sand the eggo.
darklamer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
Wikipedia knows what saint the city was named after: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Diego#Name
roguetrick@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Is it an interesting question @ptz@dubvee.org
Maeve@midwest.social 1 month ago
St Jacob
Thteven@lemmy.world 1 month 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 month 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 month 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 month ago
I live in a white flight town in the bay area. We’re still 20% Hispanic. Maybe Shasta?