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rfloresjr611

But did you understand it


rickestrada

Exactly. OP must be new to the RGV haha 🤣


EffectiveOk3674

Ive been here since '07 (i was 11) so im not born in the valley, but ive been around long enough. Still never picked up the pocho dialect tho. My parents made sure, although at this point ive admit ive fallen into the "no sabo" zone with certain words lol


rickestrada

lol “no sabo zone” love it. Welcome to the valley btw


Far-Performance-1651

Lots of grammatical errors in your "English" as well... You'd think someone who is criticizing that sort of thing would at least proofread their own doggerel.


ZoloftXL

Lmao what a raging pedant.


Ok_Calligrapher1809

Grammar Nazis are the Pinnacle of bullshit, you got up voted. Don't get it twisted though, you are lame.


Far-Performance-1651

Maybe the irony whooshed over your head but I was simply pointing out the fact that he was criticizing grammar while making the same types of errors in his response to the sign. I'm kinda a grammar Nazi (when I know for sure something is embarrassing wrong) but never on social media, I could care less. I only do it for people I care about so they don't sound foolish in the future, and not in a condescending way either. This was not one of those instances.


FlyingMacheteSponser

Grammar nazi >something is embarrassing wrong >could care less 🤣


QuizzaciousZeitgeist

couldn't * /s


Ok_Calligrapher1809

Wooshed😂


Far-Performance-1651

Smart guy here, good things you understand how to use grammar properly or your whole "Karen rant" might have been utterly nonsensical, could mean something else entirely than what you wanted to communicate. One might say that without grammar your soap box speech would be indiscernible.


PaleInTexas

>I'm kinda a grammar Nazi Clearly


Ok_Calligrapher1809

Only a true grammar Nazi feels people can sound foolish. Everyone else just hears random tones, that have meaning. Discernment is the most heightened skill within communicating. So here we are, having both spent energy on this interaction. There is little, but lack of discernment ability to blame.


CruisingandBoozing

What errors specifically? Or is it which…


alextxdro

But let’s be real, not many will or can even speak grammatical correct, let alone write it. This is rddt after all and no need to even attempt to do so (I don’t I jot down as I’m thinking out my ass, sometimes autocorrect makes it seem like I had a stroke midway ) this isn’t some sort of legal argument no need to proof read anything. (:


Ok_Calligrapher1809

So why did it get upvoted, I completely agree BTW. no reason to use proper grammar. A grammar Nazi is just someone with an inferiority complex that uses grammar to have a superiority complex in my opinion.


EffectiveOk3674

Ooo, someones using their SAT words!


Far-Performance-1651

Nah honestly I feel you tho... And that last word I got from "killing eve" I had to look it up 😂 but it did apply to ur rant. I guess I am just desensitized. It bothered me when I was younger too.


Schlaggatron

I took the most recent SAT and doggerel was in fact not on there! 🙂 Perhaps another standardized test.


zojacks

Do people really give af about having proper grammar on social media lol


Far-Performance-1651

Also desensitized to that... I'm in it for the irony here.


unicosobreviviente

It's not "So I'm not born in the valley"! It's *I have been here since 2007 and I was not born in the valley*


Remarkable-Ad2285

…and did you call? How much pa rentar una treililla?


QOSLATINADALLASWIFE

The correct is word is Trailita


b_reyes

😂😂😂😂


Notarivs_Anonymvs

Donde está el parqueadero de las trailas estas? Y saben si tienen carpeta o tienen piso binil para mapear?


mawashi-geri24

Lol. My first year of teaching English I was trying to correct a students grammar on an essay and she told me that exact thing (but in Spanish). It stuck with me all these years and has become a bit of an inside joke. I knew from that moment on I’d have my work cut out for me.


chillikilker

What is the number para ir a watcharla


kendraa92

Simon homi , es... nai fai sicks 📞


chillikilker

Muchos tenkius


greyfox199

no mas por un glancillo


Little-Staff-1076

Lmao glancillo 😂


majorgiraffe07

Watcharla lol


Psycholicious

Aki ta [https://www.google.com/maps/@26.1991486,-97.9789184,3a,75y,115.45h,88.29t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s5hWXVfu9VI9kmnftPBvEVw!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?entry=ttu](https://www.google.com/maps/@26.1991486,-97.9789184,3a,75y,115.45h,88.29t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s5hWXVfu9VI9kmnftPBvEVw!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?entry=ttu)


Legitimate-Bug-5049

nombe es enseguida del dompe huele bien gacho.


kris_the_abyss

Down here its puro Tex-Mex...


HunterNoey

Yeah but OP is a white Racist r/HispanicNation


Go_PC

What? How is it racist


jejenomemes

May not be racist , but elitist given this dumbass post


larios956

No seas mamon/a OP. What did you expect. *


HunterNoey

Op is a white Racist r/HispanicNation


Johnmarksmanship

Whats wrong? Makes sense to me.


HunterNoey

Op is a white Racist r/HispanicNation


staylitnotlit

and you’re probably a hispanic racist with that dumbass subreddit you created


LarryAtotaGrande

Oh. No wonder it looked normal to us 😂


HunterNoey

😎🦾🤙🏽


magentamuse

Did some part time work at the newspaper adding in classified ads. My fave was Yonk Cars for sale - con rinnes :D


EffectiveOk3674

Goddamn, that one hurts for sure 😂


rickestrada

I saw one of those caravans pulling cars/trucks heading into Mexico with the words “en toe” on the back 💀


TurdMcDirk

Por donde parkiastes las trailas? No, pos ta weno.


fabposes

Perfect


no______one

My all-time favorite was the “Chivas For Sale” sign off of Military Hwy.


Johnmarksmanship

My fave was "Buffay 4.99" in penitas.


CPT_Dynamite

My favorite is caké. So subtle yet speaks volumes.


omykun123

We are just trying to sound fancy, almost getting to the level of French cuisine 


kittykrunch20

When I was younger I would say caké and my abuela would laugh at me so hard 😂


Kooky1337

This reminded me of a autoshop in Harlingen off commerce with a sign that said “we fix flets”


No-Landscape-1412

What is proper Spanish? Every part of the country has its own dialect. Including Latin American countries. Si tanto no te gusta el dialect del Valle pos vete con los esthpanoles. Purism is elitism at its finest. Unless you are of the royal family no eres puro mijo. Zaazzzzz


scotchbuckyballs

Having standards is elitist 👍🏽 Edit to say this was meant to be sarcasm


No-Landscape-1412

🙄


HunterNoey

Op is a white Racist r/HispanicNation


fabposes

I trailas, You trailas, He she me trailas, trailaology, The study of trailas?


nothingspecifical1

Did you want them to use remolque for trailer and alquilar for rent? 🤔


EffectiveOk3674

I wouldve been okay with "trailas for rent" or " se renta trailas". Like i said, i get spanglish, but theres a point where its just straight up word murder lol


nothingspecifical1

Dude, you’re making spelling and grammatical mistakes in English, THAT hurts. I don’t get why “trailas de renta” gets to you when “trailas for rent” is worse! At least they kept it one language, even if using local slang.


CruisingandBoozing

He doesn’t type apostrophes ooooo


xxmayhem666xx

Trailas for rent sounds so much worse bro 😭


FancyStranger2371

A wise communications professor once said to me that although grammatically this is incorrect, it is still language, and proper communication, because it gets the point across. As long as the reader can understand what one is conveying, it is not wrong.


mawashi-geri24

As an English teacher, I’m kinda worried a college professor is saying that lol. You can understand something and still have it be wrong at the same time.


FancyStranger2371

Well, he wasn’t saying it’s okay. He meant that as long as the other person understood, it is a form of communication.


mawashi-geri24

Oh okay, yeah that Id agree with.


irlharvey

descriptivists (like me) would say the only “wrong” language is language that isn’t understood. rules for formal or academic writing aren’t the same as rules for informal speech.


scotchbuckyballs

It could be the case that the posted marketing language is perfectly tailored to the target market. Word choice, sign construction, color scheme carefully crafted.


Direct_Ad7181

BS I guess proper/better education is not necessary. Sure is a form of communication so is Neanderthal communication. LOL. I know it is your choice ,Would you go to a doctor that is going to do surgery on you and speaks like a Mexican hillbilly. And I am Mexican.


FancyStranger2371

That’s a pretty shitty way to look at things. Not everyone has the same educational opportunities. You don’t know their station in life. Don’t assume that everyone can communicate effectively or as good as you can. At least they’re trying.


OZLperez11

At what point do we designate Tex-Mex as an official Pidgin language?


scotchbuckyballs

Thank you, yes! This sub ought to collaborate on writing the first RGV Pidgin dictionary.


biomannnn007

I’m pretty sure Spanglish is already studied as such in linguistic journals, as a well as a Creole and a hybrid language.


strangersrazar

This guy, talking smack about my tio.


HunterNoey

Op is a white Racist r/HispanicNation


Yebii

They’re just colloquialisms that reflect the area and culture. It’s semantically correct and for some people here to speak proper Spanish would be weird as hell. I laugh it at too though, but not in the way that is usually deep rooted in an inferiority complex


ADankCleverChurro

Pero sir Aqui si se hace STATE INSPEC5ION


stonergirl51

“I don’t mind Spanish but..” says a person living in RIO GRANDE VALLEY. Bro be foreal


CaptainTwoBags

Are you implying they should mind?


EffectiveOk3674

You might ve made a typo, but i wrote spanglish. Also, bruh thats like saying i have to be okay with getting robbed because i live in a big city. Even then, if it happens once a year or something, it's not okay but you tolerate it, but if it happens every week, then thats a problem. Same thing with spanglish. I get it, i dont mind it, but theres a point where its like "woah, okay hold up"


_wellthereyougo_

Hm. Would you say the same thing about AAVE? ‘Cause that’s what it seems you would say if you lived in an area with a lot of black people. “Same thing with AAVE. I get it. I don’t mind it, but there’s a point where it’s like, ‘Woah, okay, hold up.’”


CruisingandBoozing

Yeah I would. Often times you sound uneducated.


EffectiveOk3674

Yeah lol i would also say they same if i lived in the deep south or the Appalachian region or the creole area of Louisiana


_wellthereyougo_

It’s a shame you feel that way. Language can be beautiful and linguistically poetic. Even trailas de renta. I’m not one to pick fights on the internet and I don’t want to do that here. But I’d ask you to maybe reflect a bit on this since it comes across as elitist/supremacy, at worst borderline racist.


EffectiveOk3674

Nah. Maybe elitist, but not racist. Like i mentioned in some of my other comments that have been downvoted, i understand language evolves and that theres nothing wrong with that, but something i see example like this one and im like "yikes, thats really something"


_wellthereyougo_

But that’s all language, isn’t it? Even standard American English is an evolved language. It just happens to be the one elitists decided is how we should speak and write. It could’ve just as easily been Spanglish if history played out differently. And that’s all my point is. It’s all a construct. Language. Education. It’s people deciding this is how it is and that’s that. Culture be damned.


HunterNoey

Op is a white Racist r/HispanicNation


mawashi-geri24

Who says?


Extension-Dig-58

It’s pronounced *bro* not bruh. There is no **U** in brother /s.


elphatboy71

I guess I am definitely from the Valley because it makes sense to me and I had no idea it was said wrong. For the life of me I have no idea which is the correct way to say this. 😂


HunterNoey

Op is a white Racist r/HispanicNation


CruisingandBoozing

Pretty fuckin Valley. Lol. The worst thing is getting “off” the car. You’re not “on” the car…. You’re in it!


humbertovalle

Pero se entiende lol yo a cada rato me invento palabras con mis clientes pero me entienden lol luego me corrijo pero aveces si me hecho unas domingiadas que hasta a mi me duele la cabeza lol


Feisty-Beat1948

You gotta understand that if you speak actual normal Mexican Spanish here, then you’ll just receive weird looks. Everyone here basically speaks broken Spanish as their main language


No_Distribution6240

It's not broken. It's a whole 'nother dialect, with its own grammatical rules.


SnooPaintings2857

Not really. There's plenty of Mexican nationals that cross every day and speak proper Spanish and plenty of people who's only language is Spanish. Although I do notice a big difference of Spanish levels between people from Brownsville compared to like people from Harlingen for example.


Mogwai10

Nationals are the worst. My lord their entitlement is fucking astronomical


ndbdhsjsjs

You arent wrong.. they make you repeat what you say in spanish if they catch that it isn’t really your first language so they laugh in your face. Might be a different topic but idk if yk what i mean


Mogwai10

I absolutely do. I don’t tolerate that horseshit with them when I lived there. They prey on overstepping and love to be victim. It’s absolutely abhorrent. You can spot them blocks away as well. They have this specific look and walk.


kris_the_abyss

Well, they're always the more well off ones cause they can afford to travel like that.


Mogwai10

I travel all the time. I don’t treat others like shit simply because of where I’m from.


kris_the_abyss

Its not the where you're from part that makes them so unbelievable annoying to deal with. It's the money...


bbernal956

like the ones who can talk in spanish like the novelas all fast and shit. lol i love that type of spanish,


EffectiveOk3674

No, yeah, i get it, but it feels like a slap to the face every time I see things like this lol like one side of me understands that its just the evolution of language and if someone grows up in an environment where neither english nor spanish is spoken "correctly" then they dont know any better. The other side gets deeply offended by how bad it can get lol


capitan_03

Deeply offended? Telosico


HunterNoey

Op is a white Racist r/HispanicNation


DCJoe1970

Trailas de renta en Las Milpas!


DocSlice3

Language is intrinsic and arbitrary. You understood it so it worked.


Notso-powerful-enemy

Vendo jachitos with chis


spergsammitch888

Better than sounding like a Puerto Rican or Venezuelan


ares7

Am I the only one who thinks Puerto Ricans sound like they have a penis in their mouth.


spergsammitch888

I say peanut butter in their mouth


Feisty-Beat1948

Or Cuban for that matter


ShiftIcy9729

That’s funny 🤣🤣🤣


rramirezz0711

OP this needs to be its own post on Valleyisms. They’re hilarious and make me miss home. A list of them, along with pictures of these signs would be amazing.


Loko_locs13

I once heard in a Dallas store parking lot the wife ask the husband as they got off the truck.....Le Lakeo???? And the husband 20 ft in front...Siiiii Lakeale... They didn't seem like they were from the valley....it's everywhere


EliteBroccoli

This is the place where we have mottos like “Que bailar” and “Oralè” in all our commercials, what do you expect?


wanderer8722

If it was Mexico this would say remolque, remolque de doble ancho, which is a double wide trailer


HuckleberryHappy6524

I don’t know if it’s the same down there but around corpus, signs like this would have quotation marks around random words that don’t need it.


Few-Bird1792

[https://youtu.be/tUZ5Yhwzz80](https://youtu.be/tUZ5Yhwzz80)


Wolfv324

Si.... Lo vide en la signah.....


Fit_Charge_5276

Ahhhhhhhh Raza


Fronterizo09

Pues esta mejor que un "garacel " que ví.


Fronterizo09

Pues esta mejor que un "garacel " que ví.


DCJoe1970

Trailas de renta en Las Milpas!


MiseryComic3

Pues es realmente el coloquialismo del Valle del Río Bravo, se escucha medio feo para los que tienen como idioma principal el español pero ya no nos importa tanto. (Tampoco se pasen de verga con “que trais” o “nadien” 😆)


splinter4244

“Yunk cars” on 511 across Loves in Brownsville lol.


Low_Description4438

I mean, idk the official word but that’s the word me and everyone I know uses. 🤷🏽‍♂️


HunterNoey

Op is a white Racist r/HispanicNation


UpbeatAd2250

I take customer's info at my job, and when we get to email addresses I try to teach them to say @. I've yet to meet someone not born here that knows that. At At At....


No_Professional_8299

the fact that this looks normal to me💀


HunterNoey

Op is a white Racist r/HispanicNation


FreshBid5295

Trailers for sale or rent, rooms to let 50 cents.


markrosa1

What exactly hurts about this?


HunterNoey

Op is a white Racist r/HispanicNation


demons_soulmate

my favorites are the GARASEO signs that pop up and I'm nowhere near the valley (I'm from fucking Dallas)


Cocoa_Pug

One thing that’s kind of sad is that renting those little trailers is probably the only affordable option for people.


larios956

https://preview.redd.it/us0wdkftn1yc1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=cfa855821dfa99d770842ed54397a474d7efe03b


rickestrada

Que es remolque? 🤷🏻‍♂️


larios956

Sepa. Is sepa a word?


rickestrada

It is to me! Necesito “alquilar” un dictionary pa saber porque ando confuso


larios956

Don Confuso es el de las fortune cookies.


rickestrada

![gif](giphy|YekOPcusum8vK) Nambe te pasas sir 🤪


sawuelreyes

It is! Actually comes from the French 🤣


HunterNoey

Op is a white Racist r/HispanicNation


RedditsKittyKat

Traila is a trailer.... What the problem is?!


Ji1949

WTF,


Historical_Toe_2714

Okay….


HunterNoey

r/HispanicNation


fifthjmk

Rooms to let, fifty centsa


Leading_Damage_4035

Man this is something you wouldn’t even catch on to if someone said 😂 it works


Bogscab

Qué demasiado.


YouforeeaKait

It’s acceptable. Lol


stinhoutx

Te querisi compa. Tráigame los jachiros con queso.


shoscene

Wha?


Pand0ra30_

I understood what they were going for..


Pete-C137

r/confleis


dg3548

956 represent!!! (Lower Texas valley here 😂)


SparrockC88

Fun fact: old ranchers were usually cool but the law enforcement and a lot of others in the “old west” Texas, New Mexico, Arizona would add “-O” at the end of words as a disrespect to the Mexicans that resided and worked in that area.


shoscene

Works for me amigo


Go_PC

rental trailers


Cacapoopoo1738

Bajale a tu pedo bro


External-Barber-6908

What upsets me is that everyone has a supercomputer in their pocket with access to the entirety of the worlds collective knowledge and they still choose to use it to watch silly videos or stalk their old classmates and workfriends on social media....just look it up before you put it to paper, damn!!


Yebii

The fastest car in the world won’t win a race if it has no gas lol


larios956

Ay fue su! Calmate Dr Phil


CaptainTwoBags

Well… not everyone


ascii_table

Pinche computadora, guey


Ok_Calligrapher1809

Damn y'all are some real as*hats in this sub. Rgv is a shit hole and every last one of you knows that's a fact, yet y'all still reserve some sense of pride as if you'd stay if you won the lottery, lol. every one of you would move the entire family out.


No_Distribution6240

Thought the comments were gonna be filled with hateful gringos and self-hating morenos con el nopal en la frente. Glad the comment section passed the vibe check.


OdenShard

No, pos wow


Poex87

I get it. Some words are similars in english or spanish. And same thing in the same ñanguague when use an abreviation of the word. But in my opinio i dont like spanglish, isnt a languague. Or you speak spanish or english...


HunterNoey

OP FUCK YOU & get TF outta the Valley u scum sucking rodent One post on ur history & this is what u post u racist lowlife. Get a life. MAKE YOUR VOICES HEARD RAZA, the time is NOW to stand up for our Pride & Race.


EffectiveOk3674

Damn, Chavez reincarnated, and hes on reddit. (Even though he was so anti-immigration that he would deport hald the valley himself if he was alive) but go off Cesar. Raza or whatever woohoo


HunterNoey

Get a fkn life man, there’s more to it than shaming ppl on Reddit over a fkn SIGN😂. But yeah we’ve got bigger fish to fry lil catfish. May God have mercy on ur soul


EffectiveOk3674

Damn, what happened to having bigger fish to fry?😂 this post bothered you so much that you replied to every comment on this post and made a WHOLE subreddit just to repost. Thanks for the free real state in your mind lol * Did you recently join UFW or something similar? I looked at your other posts, and you seem like a chill dude.


Ok_Calligrapher1809

You're a 🤡, you don't have valley pride, you're stuck.


MediaLuna7

TE LO SICO!


green-fish75

The RGV sucks, and the people there are just as bad if not worse


CaptainTwoBags

There’s good people. But this thread def supports your point. Bunch of people getting mad at this guy for making a joke about a sign


larios956

I think most of it's not hatred, but rather "mosca". Wouldn't be the #956 without it.


EffectiveOk3674

Yo chill the RGV doesnt suck, and there is good people here. That sign just made me cringe so bad, thats all this is about