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In Houston, there is a nasty, classist habit of deliberately mispronouncing Spanish-language names and words. I used to hear people who self-defined as “upper class” mispronounce “San Felipe” (a street) as “Sen Flippy”, mispronounce the names of Latino/as to their face, and pretend in Mexican restaurants to not know how to pronounce the items the menu (really? they’re Texas-born adults and they can’t say “enchiladas”?).
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Ugh. Tontos. No va a matarle aprender unas palabras en espanol! creaturedeityendless liked this
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people come to So. Cal and do that, too. slingsandarrowroot liked this
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I’m more than sure that’s how we got words like “buckaroo” and “vamoose”
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