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Cleita (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-19-06 11:37 PM Original message |
So are the southwest and California going to have to change |
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feistydem (994 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-19-06 11:39 PM Response to Original message |
1. Batten down the hatches for the backlash! |
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Cleita (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-19-06 11:40 PM Response to Reply #1 |
3. What were they thinking? |
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feistydem (994 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-19-06 11:53 PM Response to Reply #3 |
10. Si. Maybe it's just another cost cutting effort. Less $ for translators... |
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AndyTiedye (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-20-06 12:37 AM Response to Reply #10 |
15. And BALLOTS and VOTER REGISTRATION FORMS |
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Igel (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-20-06 11:09 AM Response to Reply #3 |
31. No. |
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Warpy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-20-06 11:15 AM Response to Reply #1 |
34. No shit, Sherlock! It's already happening here in NM |
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napi21 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-19-06 11:39 PM Response to Original message |
2. Don't you think you're really stretching the reality here? |
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Cleita (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-19-06 11:41 PM Response to Reply #2 |
5. What I'm questioning is what is the reality? |
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napi21 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-19-06 11:46 PM Response to Reply #5 |
8. Deal with what? Nobody said there can be no foreign words |
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Cleita (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-19-06 11:50 PM Response to Reply #8 |
9. Your explanation just proved my point. |
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napi21 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-19-06 11:57 PM Response to Reply #9 |
12. You're wrong. English is a language, the same as spanish, |
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Cleita (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-20-06 12:04 AM Response to Reply #12 |
13. I'm not really. |
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niyad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-20-06 10:47 AM Response to Reply #12 |
28. just as a matter of curiousity, why are you so adamant in defending this |
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alittlelark (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-19-06 11:40 PM Response to Original message |
4. 1/4-1/2 are already named w/ history |
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Cleita (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-19-06 11:44 PM Response to Reply #4 |
6. Yes, but much of the commercial use of the names are not. |
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MercutioATC (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-19-06 11:45 PM Response to Original message |
7. Welcome to "The Angels", California.... |
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tyedyeto (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-19-06 11:54 PM Response to Original message |
11. My town in So Az would be a candidate for name change |
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Raster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-20-06 11:31 AM Response to Reply #11 |
39. Where in So. Arizona? I grew up in Safford... |
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uppityperson (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-20-06 12:15 AM Response to Original message |
14. Can't wear pajamas at night anymore either as that is a foreign word |
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documaker (48 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-20-06 12:45 AM Response to Original message |
16. Polarizing. Hispanic voters new chess pieces |
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Cleita (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-20-06 01:10 AM Response to Reply #16 |
17. Any hispanic votes that the Republicans picked up in the last |
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documaker (48 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-20-06 01:34 AM Response to Reply #17 |
24. I'm confused about what's really in play here |
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Cleita (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-20-06 01:36 AM Response to Reply #24 |
25. I ran across an article about countries that try to put in an |
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yardwork (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-20-06 11:21 AM Response to Reply #24 |
35. I see it as the same old politics of the right-wing, like flag-burning |
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radio4progressives (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-20-06 01:21 AM Response to Original message |
18. The majority of the Cities in California are Spanish names.. |
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Cleita (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-20-06 01:26 AM Response to Reply #18 |
19. Yes, and I think this is what the RW Mayberry Machiavellis are |
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Tierra_y_Libertad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-20-06 10:51 AM Response to Reply #19 |
29. "Mayberry Machiavellis" - very apt. |
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Cleita (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-20-06 11:11 AM Response to Reply #29 |
32. It's not a name I coined myself, but is applied to that group |
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Tierra_y_Libertad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-20-06 11:30 AM Response to Reply #32 |
38. I've often thought that the Republican goal was to create Mayberry USA. |
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Cleita (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-20-06 11:40 AM Response to Reply #38 |
40. Like ancient Greece, the birthplace of democracy, it only |
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radwriter0555 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-20-06 01:28 AM Response to Original message |
20. I demand you rename "NEW MEXICO"... Any suggestions? |
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radio4progressives (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-20-06 01:31 AM Response to Reply #20 |
21. It's so stupid it's frightening. |
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Cleita (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-20-06 01:33 AM Response to Reply #21 |
23. I'll second that. I hope the coming election will be a start. n/t |
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Cleita (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-20-06 01:32 AM Response to Reply #20 |
22. Isn't New Mexico actually English? |
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radwriter0555 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-20-06 01:48 AM Response to Reply #22 |
27. The name New Mexico, From Mexico, “place of Mexitli,” |
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radwriter0555 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-20-06 01:45 AM Response to Reply #20 |
26. Oddly, the name "California" appears to be MUSLIM in origin!!!! |
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Cleita (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-20-06 11:08 AM Response to Reply #26 |
30. I heard another version. |
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radwriter0555 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-20-06 11:15 AM Response to Reply #30 |
33. Europe was influenced heavily by muslims... even mardi gras has its |
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yardwork (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-20-06 11:23 AM Response to Reply #26 |
36. Of course it is. Spain was settled by Arabs. |
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Hugin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-20-06 11:26 AM Response to Reply #20 |
37. Isn't going to be pretty..."Arid Zone", "New ENGLISH-ONLY", "Red Place" |
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Retrograde (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-20-06 12:13 PM Response to Reply #20 |
41. and Texas and Colorado and Massachusetts and |
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