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Old 11-27-2010, 06:06 PM
 
Location: Pipe Creek, TX
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People who say "Wha happen?" ... that makes me go hmmmm....
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Old 11-27-2010, 06:19 PM
 
Location: San Antonio
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Didn't read through the whole thread to see if this was mentioned, but the pronunciation of the word " insurance " here in TX sounds soooooo, I guess different to me. And yes I know we are all different and come from different cultures, but it still sounds....ahhhhh different......IN surance.

Dictionary.com | Find the Meanings and Definitions of Words at Dictionary.com gives the correct pronunciation of the word...I hope...lol
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Old 11-27-2010, 08:17 PM
 
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I'm new here and my vent is that the aisles in HEB are so narrow you can hardly stop for anything without holding people up. This is Texas, land is plentiful, so why such small grocery stores? Also, instead of long, continuous aisles, they break them up, so people are constantly stopping at 'intersections' so they don't crash into each other.

Other vents are bad roads that border on third world conditions when it rains, 410 for example.
Hey!!! I didn't say any of this......
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Old 11-27-2010, 10:18 PM
 
Location: 89074
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Hey!!! I didn't say any of this......
It looks like the previous poster just combined your line about people stopping with my paragraph which was also about HEB.

Btw, two more vents - littering, as someone said earlier. I'm still shocked when I see people throw things out of their cars. Didn't that go out in the 1970's?!

One more word - scorpions.
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Old 11-27-2010, 10:31 PM
 
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Hey!!! I didn't say any of this......
Sorry, the person's quote of your post was messed up so it came out as me quoting you when I was trying to quote them.
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Old 11-28-2010, 06:48 AM
 
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It looks like the previous poster just combined your line about people stopping with my paragraph which was also about HEB.

Btw, two more vents - littering, as someone said earlier. I'm still shocked when I see people throw things out of their cars. Didn't that go out in the 1970's?!

One more word - scorpions.
Who Scarface was really talking about when he said "meet my little friends" was scorpions and fire ants.
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Old 11-28-2010, 07:48 AM
 
Location: BP
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To me is like having 2 people ask me something at the same time.
I understand what they are saying, I just feel but for anybody that is not bilingual.

BTW, people in Argentina and Uruguay don't say "Pollo loco" they would say "Posho loco"
You are correct ll and Y are pronounced sh there. It wasn't just the different pronouncations,some words are completely different. Like turkey, he would say it is pavo but here they say guajolote.

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I'm not bilingual but I can totally follow a conversation if they're using "the mix" - if they're speaking full-on Spanish then I usually get so tired of mentally translating that I just give up!

Well, I much prefer a mixture than all Spanish too. My husband is funny, he can can speak Spanish sufficiently but refuses to. Almost all of the time if someone starts speaking Spanish to him and he says he doesn't know Spanish they will begin to speak English. I guess they just assume since he is hispanic that he is comfortable speaking Spanish.
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Old 11-28-2010, 12:39 PM
 
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Didn't read through the whole thread to see if this was mentioned, but the pronunciation of the word " insurance " here in TX sounds soooooo, I guess different to me. And yes I know we are all different and come from different cultures, but it still sounds....ahhhhh different......IN surance.

Dictionary.com | Find the Meanings and Definitions of Words at Dictionary.com gives the correct pronunciation of the word...I hope...lol
What about "CEE-ment"?
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Old 11-28-2010, 02:35 PM
 
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Has anybody mentioned people flicking @$%#$%@# cigarettes out of the cars?
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Old 11-28-2010, 04:38 PM
 
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Has anybody mentioned people flicking @$%#$%@# cigarettes out of the cars?
I was at a red light on Babcock and Hollyhock about 3 years ago, behind this red BMW.....this idiot opens the car door and empties out his ashtray right there on the road! He must smoke five packs a day, going by the amount of cig. butts he dumped out. Well, I got out of my truck, went and scooped up a handfull of this disgusting trash, and threw it in his window all over his pretty suit...told him he dropped something. Called him a few choice names and he sped off with a look on his face I'll never forget....
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