Things in San Antonio that make you go UMMM... (Paris: land, parking)

[chud]

Originally Posted by Merovee

Then quit being a language bully and recognize.

Royal academy finally agrees: Madrid not sole arbiter of proper Spanish | Texas on the Potomac | Chron.com - Houston Chronicle

I have a co-worker whose parents are from Spain, so he speaks spanish. He says the spanish here in south texas is wrong. I told him, "yes, it's a different dialect" and he replied, "No, it's WRONG!".

[Paul56]

Given I am relatively new to the area, things that make me go ummm...

-lack of public transportation in areas like Schertz

Last city I lived in was Ottawa, Ontario Canada... and even up there
the smaller outskirts areas had public transportation such that you
could get from the bedroom communities to the city core in a few
minutes via bus.

The car dealerships must lobby the authorities to keep the public
transportation out to increase car sales.

[Merovee]

Originally Posted by serenityprayer

I have been here 3 years and my ummms are:
Why is the book store full of people phone texting instead of reading or finding a book to purchase?
Why was I asked to leave the "quiet room" of the Cody "Public" Library during regular business hours, for a "private" birthday party for a 6 yr old?
Why was 2 of my cars hit while parked and no one left a note?
Why is this city ranked one of "the fattest" in the country but there are few places to ride your bike or run safely?
Why do people bring young children to Rated-R movies at night and expect the child to sit through the movie without making a sound? Why spend all that money on a home theater?

Just a few...

I love how these somehow are intimately connected to your user handle. Serenity now...

Originally Posted by Paul56

Given I am relatively new to the area, things that make me go ummm...

-lack of public transportation in areas like Schertz

Last city I lived in was Ottawa, Ontario Canada... and even up there
the smaller outskirts areas had public transportation such that you
could get from the bedroom communities to the city core in a few
minutes via bus.

The car dealerships must lobby the authorities to keep the public
transportation out to increase car sales.

A rule of thumb is that the bus line will run as far as workers are needed. If you live in a community where the house ladies wish to hire domestic servants then a bus line will run that far. In some cases it will be an extended line that only runs in the morning and then again in the afternoon, so if the maid is fired in the day she is going to have to wait. On another note there have been some extended bus lines which have been canceled due to lack of ridership.

One more thing to add to the list: people in town who cannot plainly admit they are wrong when they are wrong.

[Dopo]

Originally Posted by The Sweet Pickles Bus

This one really makes me go ummm...

How the Ruebens on 35/Selma stays open!?
Worlds best enchiladas? Ive had better @ Luby's

That's funny, you always see the same 4 cars parked in front of it.

Originally Posted by Paul56

Given I am relatively new to the area, things that make me go ummm...
-lack of public transportation in areas like Schertz

You would think that an area that connects 2 of Texas largest cities plus San Marcos & New Braunfels, would have some kind of transportation besides the "Texas State" buses.

[Dopo]

Originally Posted by chud

I have a co-worker whose parents are from Spain, so he speaks spanish. He says the spanish here in south texas is wrong. I told him, "yes, it's a different dialect" and he replied, "No, it's WRONG!".

I can’t wait for somebody from Spain to tell me that they speak proper Spanish (Big misconception).
NW Spain = They speak Galician
NE Spain = The speak Basque (God knows where that language came from)
SE Spain = They speak Catalan
Central Spain = Speak Castilian (Spanish) but they speak about as fast as puertorican
SW Spain and Canary Islands = Only place in Spain where people speak descent Spanish.

Feel free to send that to your co-worker and ask him what he thinks about it.

[txmusicgal]

Wanna talk about bad enchiladas don't try El Bosque. Who the hell puts brown gravy in enchiladas?

[Merovee]

Galician as a bit of trivia is closer to Portuguese than Spanish.

Aragonese is spoken in NE Spain, not Basque.

Basque is spoken in North central Spain, Basque Country is connected to the Atlantic (which is definitely not in NE Spain) and not the Mediterranean (which is), and also spills over onto the French side of the border.

Catalan is spoken in the East of Spain but also runs up to the NE, not really the SE. Barcelona is in no way in the SE of Spain.

[Merovee]

Best enchiladas come from a little restaurant called El Torito on South Presa.

Taco Riendo on San Pedro used to make proper Tex-Mex style enchiladas too, must have orange sauce, not brown which is not Tex-Mex, but I have not been there in a while.

Taco Riendo is also an inside joke because if you say it really fast it sounds like 'ta corriendo get it ('ta corriendo) lol....bad potty humor n/m. There is a little picture of a taco running as their logo so yeah lol...

[ShaneSA]

I was in Barcelona and trying to be accomodating and speaking the Spanish that I knew. A store proprietor told me to NOT do that. He said I was speaking Mexican and no one likes it. So I spoke English from then on. Even in SA, I try to speak Spanish when appropriate. I have been corrected and and helped to speak correcty, Mexican I guess. So much for trying.

[Merovee]

My great-grandparents called the regional form of Spanish, spoken here in South Texas, as mexicano, and they also referred to the German spoken in South Texas as deutcha and not alemán.

Further north, in the Texas Hill Country, a little known dialect of German was also born here, different than German from Germany, but still mutually intelligible.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_German

I am sure someone would have said, or still do, that they are speaking German wrong. Again, most of those people are not native to these lands and do not know up from down when it comes to Texas, our history, or our culture.