• Diplomjodler@lemmy.world
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    11 days ago

    Very telling that they didn’t have a single Latino person involved in this that coughs have told them this is wrong. And even if you don’t steal Spanish, this would feel off to anybody with any sort of exposure to Latin American culture.

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    11 days ago

    Now I’m picturing a candidate from another part of the world trying to appeal to the white minority via Anglo Saxon language and imagery billboards 😄🤦

  • edgemaster72@lemmy.world
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    11 days ago

    I don’t know Latin and haven’t taken Spanish for like 20 years, but would the first line translate to “Legal (my emphasis) Hispanics and Latinos”? Gotta love courting the votes of a demographic while still showing your bias against them.

    • mitchty@lemmy.sdf.org
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      11 days ago

      Basically I think though my latins rusty it reads like google translate in that the form seems wrong like someone transliterated English to Latin and ignored Latin grammar and logic in that Latin speaking people in Latin really doesn’t exist in the same way. Latini I think was only the subgroup of Latin speakers in Italy named Latium, either way not how a Roman Latin speaker would refer to a Latin speaker in general, not that the concept existed in the same way.

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latium

      It’s kind of like translating Japanese directly into English, reads off if you say in the room there are many chair in English kinda deal.

    • harrys_balzac@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      Yep. I studied Latin and the “legales” is modifying the two nouns.

      The first actually refers to residents of Hispania, so any classical Latin speaking immigrants from Spain and Portugal should feel included.

      The second refers to the Latins, who were assimilated into the Roman (Trojan if believe the Aeneid) population and no longer exist.

      Stylistically, I would have gone with the enclitic “-que” over the conjunctive “et.”

  • Optional@lemmy.world
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    11 days ago

    This can’t be real. I mean . . it very much can be real, but c’mon. Somebody’s just fucking with us right

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      11 days ago

      The number of people in my town that think our language is American, Mexicans speak Mexican, all Asian people are Chinese, and any random combination of cities/countries are part of the United States makes this very plausible.

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        and any random combination of cities/countries are part of the United States

        You do have a few Saint-Petersburgs, right? And Athens? And Cairos?

        that think our language is American,

        Similar to Russia then.

        Mexicans speak Mexican,

        Similar to Russia then.

        all Asian people are Chinese,

        Still similar to Russia.

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        11 days ago

        Like you could say American is a sub dialect of English with it further broken down into accents. But I doubt most folks think of it that way, especially folks who say “I speak American” outside of an argument with the English.

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            10 days ago

            Sure, but we’ve been in this timeline since the Escalator Ride to Hell so it’s not, like, that unusual.

            Heck, Pizzagate was a no-shit, for real thing these chowderheads yapped about for years. Maybe still do.

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        10 days ago

        How the hell can you see this being put up by Democrats? What idiot messaging do they have that even comes close to the torrent of ignorant bullshit the republiQans swim in every moment of the day?

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          10 days ago

          Not the party, but it falls very in line with the current “whether or not this is true, they seem the type” attacks such as the couch fucker memes

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        11 days ago

        Democrats are much more likely to have a Spanish speaker on staff at all levels. They are a more diverse bunch. Republicans, many from southern states will speak some Spanish, more so than northern white democrats. But, they are more likely to he a white only staff at each level, so nobody would pick up on it.

        This is part of the reason diversity is important. It will be self evident to some people that things are not right, whereas those in a different world won’t even notice.

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          I am probably completely wrong, but I thought he was saying that he could see the Democrats putting this exact sign up, not one like it. On the surface it might appear to be pro Republican, but in reality it is not. Just like the robo calls people were getting where they claimed to be Biden and told people not to vote in primary.

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    11 days ago

    Y’know I could see this being done by a third party in an attempt to portray the GOP as not caring about Hispanics (Not that they do care lol)