Oh pshaw, on Wed 21 Jun 2006 05:30:08p, Leila meant to say...

>
> chilichick wrote:
>> wrote:
>> > There is this little Mexican grocery store here in Sacramento, that
>> > makes the most wonderful tamales.
>> >
>> > I've gone in there a few times to buy a dozen or so at a time. It is
>> > always a crap shoot, as to whether I will exit the market with the
much
>> > desired tamales. The reason. . .I don't speak Spanish, and half the
>> > time the people in the store don't speak English.
>> >
>> > Can someone tell me how to ask for "1 dozen beef tamales" in Spanish?
>> > I think what I need is to have someone just type it out here, and I
>> > could print it off, and take it into the market, like a note from Mom
>> > or something.
>> >
>> > Myrl Jeffcoat
>> > http://www.myrljeffcoat.com
>>
>> Hey everyone, all of the posts are very funny today
>> you would say:
>> una docena de tamales de res por favor.
>> phonetically...
>> oona doe cina de tamales de rez por favor
>> You can always make them yourself... My daughter and I have started
>> making them ourselves. It's work, we generally make 30 dozen or so and
>> give to family, but have made small batches of 4 dozen. We sometimes
>> make beef or pork along with jalapeno and cheese and maybe some sweet
>> ones. Good luck on your mission...
>> Be careful with the translation sites, they aren't always correct.
>
> Speaking of home-made tamales, how about those Spanish propagandists on
> PBS, running Spanish language cartoons and Sesame Street bits? Now they
> run cooking segments and my five year old wants to make chalupas! My
> six year old wants to make tamales! They see it on TV, they're
> corrupted.
>
> Good thing the right-wingers are cutting PBS funds to the bone, because
> all this pro-Spanish propaganda is going to raise a next generation of
> kids who might think it's okay to speak Spanish. WOuldn't want that to
> happen. I mean, what if they traveled to countries south of our border
> and actually understood what people were saying to them? WHat then?

I see no point in needing to learn the language of another culture when so
many don't bother to learn the predominant language of the country they
immigrate to.

--
Wayne Boatwright @¿@¬
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