Whales vagina
Agree to disagree
I saw that. You should probably lay low for a while.
Wikipedia knows what saint the city was named after: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Diego#Name
If she had responded with “A Whale’s Vagina,” I would have died.
“A whale’s vagina.”
Go fuck yourself, San Diego.
Saint Jack
From what I could gather, Diego appears to come from Thiago. Thid means that San Diego would be Saint James.
It’s named after Saint Didacus, who went by Diego, I guess.
For reference, San Diego and Tijuana back right up to each other and have one of the busiest border crossings in the country.
You’re going to hear Spanish there.
Btw, San Diego would be Saint James.
It’s wild that the name Diego becomes James in English!
I would’ve thought of Daniel or something but no, JAMES
That’s English for ya! You would think that after the Great Vowel Shift people would have considered re-spelling words and names to more properly fit their roots, but evidently instead they just decided to start pronouncing everything wrong.
It also seems like English changing the letter J from a /j/ sound to a /dzj/ sound didn’t help, going by how “Iacobus” became Jacob somewhere down that line.
Yup, that’s the part that drives me most crazy.
Diego (Diogo in Portuguese) is a modification of the name Tiago which in turn is the diminutive of Santiago which is the name of the apostle James in Spanish and Portuguese.
Maybe Saint Jim would convey the idea better?
San Diego <- Santiago <- Sant Iago <- Sanctus Iákōbos -> Sanct Iacobus -> Saint Iacomus -> Saint James
And Iákōbos from Hebrew Yaaqob
So Jacob and James come from the same origin?
That is correct. Greek Iakóbos to Latin Iacobus to Jakobus to late latin Jacomus to early French Jammes to english James
vs a more direct Yaaqob to Jacob or via Jakobus to Jacob
This also explains why the short form of James is Jim, via french Jaime
And how Jack and James and Jim and Jacob and Seamus and Thiego and Diego and Jaime and Giacomo, Iacopo and Hamish are all related.
Leave it to the French to simply ignore a whole syllable in the middle of the word.
I wouldn’t mind that at all lol has a nice ring to it. But I would feel insulted if I don’t get treated well in a city where I’m a saint.
jimjam5 wouldn’t mind the name Saint Jim?
I feel you’re biased 😋
In the streets of shame
Where you’ve lost your dreams in the rain
There’s no signs of hope
The stems and seeds of the last of the dope
There’s a glow of light
The Saint Jimmy is the spark in the night
Bearing gifts and trust
A fixture in the city of lust
Tiago > Iago* > Jacob > James. It’s still a dumb demand.
That’s interesting and all but many Spanish speaking people have had family on this side of the border since California was a Mexican territory.
Best we can do is Saint America.
Well, California was a Spanish colony, sfter all.
Not only, it used to be a Mexican State
This stuff is embarassimg. I swear, next time i travel I’m gonna have to claim I am Canadian.
The stupid - it burns!
I heard there’s a tariff on those Canadian pins and badges.
I’ll pick them up in the tax-free section of the airport! :)
Why? They can be just as stupidly racist.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/kitchener-waterloo/waterloo-video-racially-charged-comments-1.7354996
Yeah, i know. See my other reply from moments ago. I’ve never heard the term “ugly Canadian” or railing against their imperialist culture abroad. I’ve seen some latent sense of superiority over them (especially wrt frankophones) but not outright hatred. They aren’t treated like a threat, from my limited experience, and that was before our government went Fascist.
It’s an old tactic used by American travellers, put a Canadian flag cap or patch on the bag and present themselves as Canadian to avoid the negative stereotypes, I’ve personally talked to more than one American doing this in my life and read about it more often online too. I guess it’s only gonna get more popular.
Don’t pedestalize Canadians. We’re just as dumb and racist. Remember, ppl are unironically fighting for private health care.
I didn’t intend to do that. I realize you also have a growing right-wing that is on the same page as ours, and there are other excesses, along with insane housing issues.
I also feel like the ire of the world is not as strongly directed at you. We have decadea of negative stereotypes. It comes from being “in your face” for so long and having such outsize influence in the world.
I remember encountering several negative ideas during my term abroad in Europe during college and was very careful to avoid reinforcing any of them.
The racism or the made up story?
Mi vida, llevo 30 años viviendo en esta frontera, 0% falsa la historia; pasa todo el día en todas partes.
Je suis desolee - Je ne comprends pas l’espagnol. Parlez-vous francais ou l’anglais ? ;)
The accurate response to this is “a whale’s vagina.” Idk how one can live there and not know this.
Foreigner here, what’s the joke there?
It’s from the movie Anchorman with Will Ferrell, it’s his pickup line on a date.
Woof. I said something similar before seeing your comment.
Scholars maintain that the translation was lost long ago!
Sand the eggo.
Saint James?
Sandy eggo
“Let go my sandy eggo!” Just doesn’t sound very appetizing.
Oh heck yeah friggin racist le epic owned
People clapped so hard their hands hurt.
And then we all clapped
Muahh see, my language better than yours! Mahhh see, I was born in the right zip code therefore I’m special! Muahhhh
Especially ironic in San Diego, where literally anywhere in the city is a mere 15 minute drive to the Mexican border.
San Diego is full of the wildly entitled and elderly though, so the self-selecting personalities can’t be a surprise for anyone who has lived there.
It’d be a really pleasant place to live if it weren’t for the huge amount of selfish, entitled fucking pricks that do.
I have seen variations on this online for a long time, and this has always baffled me: do strangers in America really go up to random people who are speaking foreign languages and tell them “you are in X, speak Xese”, a language they may or may not speak? Even among people who share their native language?
Sadly, but also a bit humorously, yes.
You can get the same in Quebec for speaking English.
I saw it twice that I can remember in person in my ~30 years growing up and living in the US. Can’t speak for the last decade as I’ve only spent a couple weeks in the US in that time to see family.
Yeah there’s a segment of arrogant racist halfwit conservatives that get a superiority kick out of demeaning people for stuff like that.
When I was a kid my mother’s boyfriend bragged of doing exactly this. He heard them having a conversation in another language at a gas station, approached them, and started speaking to them in German. When they were confused he allegedly said exactly the phrase. You are in America, speak English. He thought it was hysterical.
He may have been full of shit, but the fact that he felt it worth bragging about said enough about him.
Saint James…
The point being she didn’t even know.
Fun fact, the name Santiago, is basically the same as San Diego. Originally, it comes from the hebrew Jacob (ya-akov), then Sant Iago (Iago sounds similar to ya-akob, it’s the latinization of the name IIRC). I think Diego actually comes from shortening Santiago to Thiago, and then to Diego. Basically all comes from Jacob. In Spanish, the actual translation for James would be Jaime, not Diego. I don’t know what happened there or if Jaime and Diego as somehow related etymologically.
