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I have traveled a great deal throughout Mexico, Central and South America, and it seems like the only time I have people calling me Gringo is in Mexico. Fine! But every time one calls me that down there, I quickly take them aside and correct their pronounciation of the word. I tell them: It's NOT pronounced greeeeengo, it's gringo. No eeee sounds.
Is this a non-Mexican instructing Mexicans on how to properly pronounce what is essentially a Spanish slang word that they themselves created? Does that sound just a bit arrogant to anyone besides me?
Some good friends of mine who travel quite a bit in Mexico and are pretty good with the language told me "just remember - i's are e's, e's are a's and a's are ah's. So, Gringo would be pronounced green-go not grin-go.
I spent quite a bit of time in Chihuahua a year ago (on business) and I really liked all the people I met there. Sometimes the lack of urgency could get a little frustrating, but at the same time, they seemed to take everything in stride. The guys I worked with had a great sense of humor, they were always cracking me up.
Location: where the moss is taking over the villages
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Originally Posted by Leovigildo
Güero is huero in Spanish.
Huero = Empty, empty headed.
everything makes sense now i was 18 when i was called that... although i sensed some endearment at the time... the guy who named me that always had that "love" look some guys get.... heehehe
I don't get it. This is the Mexico board, which one would assume is both for people who know and love Mexico and those who sincerely would like to know more. It is nauseating to see posters come to this part of city-data only to share their hateful and backward impressions of a country and people about which they obviously know nothing.
People like roncorey have no place on an international forum, or for that matter, on any forum frequented by real adults. Great job on interspersing sexism and religion-bashing in with your "on topic" view of "them", ron baby!
And tijlover ~~ wtf?? Um. Let's just stick with what Baja Boomer said, as it's a heck of a lot more polite than what I'm thinking.
estimado senor -
mexico is a very big place.
lots of different people live there.
unfortunately opinions in this country are not formed by the people living in mexico, they are formed by the people that come here from mexico. of late i regret, it has not been a pleasant experience.
People like roncorey have no place on an international forum, or for that matter, on any forum frequented by real adults. Great job on interspersing sexism and religion-bashing in with your "on topic" view of "them", ron baby!
sorry...I'll just assume that the thousands of Mexican immigrants that live in my city are just an aberration and the news and the documentaries of untamed drug gang violence and rampant poverty in your country is just hyperbole.
I'll leave this forum forever now to the people that want to believe that the real Mexico is the one that they see while visiting resorts and tourist centers.
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i was 18 when i was called that... although i sensed some endearment at the time... the guy who named me that always had that "love" look some guys get.... heehehe
