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 4 weeks ago
Tryenjer@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
San Diego would be Saint James.
lord_ryvan@ttrpg.network 4 weeks 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 4 weeks ago
Best we can do is Saint America.
Maggoty@lemmy.world 4 weeks 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 4 weeks ago
James is Santiago in Spanish.
MasterBuilder@lemmy.one 4 weeks ago
Well, California was a Spanish colony, sfter all.
Mexigore@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Not only it used to be a Mexican State
MrFappy@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
The accurate response to this is “a whale’s vagina.” Idk how one can live there and not know this.
JoeBigelow@lemmy.ca 4 weeks ago
Scholars maintain that the translation was lost long ago!
orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks ago
Woof. Ibsaid something similar before seeing your comment.
ICastFist@programming.dev 4 weeks ago
Foreigner here, what’s the joke there?
beccaboben@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
It’s from the movie Anchorman with Will Ferrell, it’s his pickup line on a date.
AlolanYoda@mander.xyz 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks ago
Sadly, but also a bit humorously, yes.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 4 weeks ago
“A whale’s vagina.”
DJDarren@sopuli.xyz 4 weeks ago
Go fuck yourself, San Diego.
Jerb322@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Let agree to disagree…
orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks ago
If she had responded with “A Whale’s Vagina,” I would have died.
griff@lemmings.world 4 weeks ago
Hey, what’s the English word for California??
psoul@lemmy.world 4 weeks 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 4 weeks ago
That’s the dumbest and most beautiful premise for naming a place that I’ve seen
voodooattack@lemmy.world 4 weeks 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 4 weeks ago
Oh heck yeah friggin racist le epic owned
slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.org 4 weeks ago
People clapped so hard their hands hurt.
BilboBargains@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
And then we all clapped
MasterBuilder@lemmy.one 4 weeks 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 4 weeks ago
Don’t pedestalize Canadians. We’re just as dumb and racist. Remember, ppl are unironically fighting for private health care.
MasterBuilder@lemmy.one 4 weeks 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 4 weeks ago
I heard there’s a tariff on those Canadian pins and badges.
MasterBuilder@lemmy.one 4 weeks ago
I’ll pick them up in the tax-free section of the airport! :)
slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.org 4 weeks ago
The racism or the made up story?
3laws@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Mi vida, llevo 30 años viviendo en esta frontera, 0% falsa la historia; pasa todo el día en todas partes.
MasterBuilder@lemmy.one 4 weeks 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 4 weeks ago
Why? They’re just as stupidly racist.
RizzoTheSmall@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
Saint Jack
undeffeined@lemmy.ml 4 weeks ago
From what I could gather, Diego appears to come from Thiago. Thid means that San Diego would be Saint James.
meliaesc@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
It’s named after Saint Didacus, who went by Diego, I guess.
ThatGuy46475@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Sandy eggo
GratefullyGodless@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
“Let go my sandy eggo!” Just doesn’t sound very appetizing.
hddsx@lemmy.ca 4 weeks ago
Saint James…
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 4 weeks ago
The point being she didn’t know.
tacobellhop@midwest.social 4 weeks ago
Whales vagina
PahdyGnome@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Agree to disagree
tacobellhop@midwest.social 4 weeks ago
I saw that. You should probably lay low for a while.
ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 4 weeks ago
Mr James?
chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Without Doug.
franzcoz@feddit.cl 4 weeks ago
Without = Sin Saint = San
TheBat@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Saint Doug
ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 4 weeks ago
Saint James
WhatYouNeed@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Douglas?
someguy3@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Sand the eggo.
darklamer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks ago
Wikipedia knows what saint the city was named after: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Diego#Name
roguetrick@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Is it an interesting question @ptz@dubvee.org
Maeve@midwest.social 4 weeks ago
St Jacob
Thteven@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Lmao, if you live in San Diego and can’t handle Spanish you’re gonna have a bad time.
bobs_monkey@lemm.ee 4 weeks 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 4 weeks ago
Yeah I point out that Texas used to actually be part of Mexico and the border moved, not the people.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
I live in a white flight town in the bay area. We’re still 20% Hispanic. Maybe Shasta?