Re: Power Cycle

[ABLE1 <somewhere@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 3/28/2021 8:32 PM, Jim Davis wrote:
> On Sunday, March 28, 2021 at 4:14:38 PM UTC-4, ABLE1 wrote:
>> On 3/28/2021 3:16 PM, Bob La Londe wrote:
>>> On 3/27/2021 8:03 PM, ABLE1 wrote:
>>>> On 3/27/2021 4:58 PM, Bob La Londe wrote:
>>>>
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>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> El Toro Primatoria Agricola - About halfway between Cuervos and
>>>>> Morelos. Had my Mexican work visa and everything.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Excelente señor Bob!!
>>>>
>>>> Por cierto, obtuve F en mi clase de español II.
>>>>
>>>> Yo no hablo español ¡Google es genial!
>>>>
>>>
>>> Yo dise no hablo espanol. Yo comprende chance veinte o treinta
>>> palabras, pero cuando con muchos hombres todos hablando Espanol yo
>>> comprende mas. Mi gramtico es muy malo. Por favor pardon mi dialecto
>>> fronterizo. Acabas de leer casi todas las palabras que sé. Bueno, los
>>> educados de todos modos.
>>>
>>> I speak what I call immersion Spanish. If I spend all day in Mexico I
>>> start understanding what people are saying. Unfortunately I also pick
>>> up the accent, and they think I am a native speaker and start speaking
>>> at their normal rate. Then I can't follow along. If you ask me to
>>> translate something on the fly I'm lost. I did have to use BING
>>> translate for the last two sentences above. I did take two semesters of
>>> conversational Spanish in college. It didn't really teach me anything
>>> and I was constantly getting marked down for using improper border
>>> dialect or words that are only regional in usage. For example combio is
>>> typically the proper word for change, but I would say feria which is a
>>> local/regional word for change. Tu feria es dos dollares y
>>> treinte-nueve centavos.
>>>
>>>
>> LOL In high school I just got by in Spanish I. Then in my senior year
>> three other guys and myself realized that we all had one extra credit
>> more than was needed to graduate. We decided to blow off Spanish II.
>> We sat in the back in the room and played cards for the class the
>> whole year. The teacher was Mrs. Evans. Lovely lady, mid to late 20's
>> good looking!! Every so often she would have to stop teaching and would
>> call out to back of the room. She would say; "Ok, you unholy 4 keep it
>> down back there." Needless to say straight F's the whole year.
>>
>> The funny thing is that there was a Sadie Hawkins Day Dance. This is
>> where everyone dressed in the Li'l Abner era costumes for the dance.
>> The Spanish Club set up a booth to take Polaroid pictures for a fee to
>> make money for the Club. I didn't have a date but showed up just to see
>> what was happening. Found Mrs. Evens in the booth trying to figure out
>> how this Polaroid Camera thing worked. I helped her get it working and
>> then since NONE of the Spanish Club showed up to help I spent the night
>> taking pictures and making money for the Spanish Club. Had lots of fun
>> doing so!!
>>
>> I found out later that at the next Spanish Club meeting Mrs. Evans
>> reamed out all the members for NOT showing up at the booth to help and
>> told them what had happened. She that said "WE" are going to have a
>> unamious vote that Les WILL BE an Honorary Member of the Spanish
>> Club!! Under my picture in my Class Year Book it has listed as one of my
>> accomplishments "Honorary Member of the Spanish Club".
>>
>> The ironic part is that never thinking I would ever need any Spanish in
>> my life, after graduating I went active duty in the US Navy. Ended up
>> stationed in San Diego across the boarder from Tijuana, Mexico. And
>> now I have a few Hispanic customers. :-)
>>
>> Now how cool is that!!
>>
>> Les
>
> Growing up in New York - - - - my teen years in the 50's put me at the beginning of the influx of the Puerto Rican invasion of New York City. Had a lot of Puerto Rican friends and girl friends. (OH! I'll never forget loosie Lucy. Why are Latin girls so hot?)
>
> Anyway, I learned a lot of individual words which I can't and never could spell. Most of them were profanities or more important things like  "Here come the cops"  or "shut the F%$& up!" or "give me a cigarette" .  And Lucy taught me (among other things) How to say "i love you" and the name of various body parts. Most of which I've forgotten how to say now.
>
> I probably should have paid more attention because now with this new (?) South American invasion,  it pisses me off that I have to press  " 1 " for English. or listen to TV ads in Spanish or have to flip the paper over three times to try to find the English version of installation instructions. And then to find out that English isn't the official language in the US    - - - - - REALLY - - - - tops it off.
>

Actually to be more accurate!!
The USA does NOT have an "Official Language"