Wednesday, September 11, 2019

SALAZAR SIGNS MANGLE "OF" AND "FOR" THE PEOPLE

(Ed.'s Note: We, along the border, have some acquaintance with bilingualism. I, me, he, she, Yo, tu, el, ella, you get the drift. So when we saw the campaign sign from JP 2-1 Linda Salazar translating "from the people" to "Para la gente," something didn't ring right.

"From" doesn't translate to "Para," or does it? No. Every local linguist we asked says "from" translates into "De" la gente." Coming from someone who prides herself in reflecting the grassroots culture, it would seem she or someone close to her would have caught the mistake.

If the purpose of the sign was to remind voters of the Lincoln quote from the Gettysburg Address, that went: "Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth," it didn't work.

Note there is no "from" in that quote.

"De," "para," does it matter? Well, yes. After all this is the woman who has shown an endearing crudeness in asking for "condones" (a koozie) for her beer and tells couple she weds (for a hefty $250 per ceremony) and tells the groom "ya te la puedes pichonear,"so this minor translation gaffe is probably the least of her transgressions. Oh, yeah. Mothers don't let your daughters grow up to be Linda.)

16 comments:

Anonymous said...

Taxing Unit Code and Description:
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DELINQUENT TAX ATTORNEY FEES BY TAXING UNIT AND TAXING UNITS THAT DO NOT ALLOW DISCOUNTS (Sec 31.05)
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Brownsville ISD 15%
Brownsville Navigation District 15%
Cameron County 15%
Cameron County Drainage Dist 1 15%
Cameron County Drainage Dist 3 15%
Cameron County Drainage Dist 4 15%
Cameron County Drainage Dist 5 15%
City of Brownsville 15%
*City of La Feria 15%
City of Los Fresnos 20%
*City of Los Indios 15%
*City of Palm Valley 15%
City of Port Isabel 15%
City of Primera 15%
*City of Rio Hondo 15%
City of San Benito 15%
City of Santa Rosa 15%
City of South Padre Island 15%
Emergency Service Dist. 15%
La Feria ISD 20%
Laguna Madre Water Distric t 15%
Paseo De La Resaca (LLD) 15%
*Paseo De La Resaca (MUD) # 1 20%
*Paseo De La Resaca (MUD) # 2 20%
*Paseo De La Resaca (MUD) # 3 20%
*Point Isabel ISD 12.50%
*Port of Harlingen 15%
Santa Maria ISD 15%
Santa Rosa ISD 15%
South Texas ISD 15%
*Street Light Distr (SL1-SL9, S10-S33) 0%
Texas Southmost College 15%
Town of Bayview 15%
Town of Combes 15%
Town of Indian Lake 15%
*Town of Laguna Vista 15%
Town of Rancho Viejo 15%
*Valley Municipal Utility District #2 15%

Anonymous said...

Juan, great scoop! But I got it. Makes so much sense to me. Why can't you see it? It's like when I kept buying dog food at HEB after my dog died!

- Booby Weightman-Ramirez

Anonymous said...

Jorge Lincoln says:

Gringos won't know the difference and the piojos well they don't vote and we don't care just like the rest of the city smh kma
Viva la democracia uuy uuy uuy pasa la tequila

Anonymous said...

It says two different things.

From the people - de la gente; desde la gente;
Para la Gente - for the people...


If thats her knowledge of The Gettysburg Address - I don't know how she got passed law school.

Anonymous said...

Mexican truck drivers are using a United Nations License permit for 10 years.

Anonymous said...

The daily today about extending lanes on 802.

Cardenas said the condition will be evaluated and that a synchronization of traffic signals will be done.
WHAT? The engineers here don't know what that is synchronization went out with Jack Goolsby 40 years ago...
They don't care abut safety for the pedesdrians and the elderly the solution is simple built a walking bridge over the highway.

Anonymous said...

Authorities responded to a call Monday night from neighbors who reported animal cruelty, Lucio said
I called and reported a fighting disturbance and nobody showed up dogs are more important

Anonymous said...

Along with the Sheriff’s Department, Brownsville and Port Isabel Animal Control, Los Fresnos Fire Department and Precinct 4 constables responded to the scene about a report about dogs.
WOW smh kms

Anonymous said...

Hey that's great advice and its free. I went to the sports store and ask for a condon and they sent me over to a pharmacey and when I wanted to pichoniar my girl friend she said "Not until we get married". Needless to say I took the condon dumped my girl friend and went to mejico and now I need to go see a doctor the condon was made in china

Anonymous said...

dowe cheatum & Howe

Anonymous said...

Linda Salazar is a leech on the community. She is uneducated and corrupt. She thinks only of herself and her own purse. She is greedy and arrogant. Please, vote against Linda Salazar. We need competent people on the job as our elected officials. She has sucked on the public tit for too long.

Anonymous said...

Trumpo the Clown knew exactly what was getting when he hired John Bolton for the national security position. The only reason Trumpo hired him was because he saw him on Fox News giving commentary, and much of it was favorable to the orange baboon. It is the height of stupidity and hypocrisy for that dotard Trumpo to complain about or criticize Bolton after firing him!

Anonymous said...

Senate Bill 24 was announced last month in Austin. The bill is authored by Senators Eddie Lucio.
Senate Bill 24 is a companion to House Bill 1000.
HB 1000 would create a new university in South Texas within the University of Texas System. It would provide for the UT System to abolish two universities: the University of Texas at Brownsville and the University of Texas-Pan American.
Abolishing UT-Pan American and UT-Brownsville. HB 1000 would abolish the University of Texas-Pan American and the University of Texas at Brownsville. The UT board of regents would determine the actual date to abolish the schools and would establish procedures to wind up each institution’s remaining business.
The new university would hire as many of the faculty and staff of the abolished schools as was practical. A student already admitted to or enrolled in one of the abolished schools would be entitled to admission to the new university.

yellow dog demo said...


Folks, dont know why you all get mad or angry, the democrat party- los que chingan have been created by us voters in the past, for many years, folks have supported these great figures- eddie lucio, eddie lucio turd, eddie trevino, joe rivera, juan magallanes, luis saenz, gilberto hinojete, tony yzaguirre, sylvia perez, linda salazar, etc etc etc, so there is NO ONE to BLAME except us. Until we all as a voting party decide enuff is enuff, then we can have the REAL change we really want in Cameron County for our kids and grand kids future. .

Anonymous said...

Looks like this is a "all topic" venue. But, we all should plan to vote against Linda Salazar and her family members in the upcoming elections. Just say NO to Linda Salazar.

Anonymous said...

She's got my vote her opponents are worst.

rita