Hm. I must have missed where I was the one making personal attacks in this thread.
Spectre of Pithecanthropus: Since this thread has turned ugly, we may as well close it.
Seriously? That was criticism, not moderation. As a moderator, you should realize that I’m critisizing you for shitty moderation and blatant “because I don’t like your tone” tactics.
I’m not moderating or suggesting (junior moderating?) you behave any other way. I just think you’re being an asshole. I’m making a critical observation.
Fuck you if you don’t like it.
Some common SoCal pronunciation issues…
San Pedro
San Luis Obispo
El Monte
Santa Ana
San Fernando
Port Hueneme
Montebello
Alhambra
Probably a ton more…
To accuse other posters publicly of violating the rules is, in fact, junior modding, and that’s a warnable offense. Criticism it may have been, but it’s also junior modding.
You could always move out to the suburbs. Like Chilly.
Weak, dude. My statement was not an admonishment to follow rules. If I had involked rules, you might have a point. I made a critical observation. If my observation had implications that overlapped board rules, it was purely coincidental.
Warning me for junior modding based on the statement you quoted and warned me for was a stetch in every sense of the word. Especially as it appeared to be purely retaliatory for statements I made that did not breach board rules, that you simply didn’t like. If it wasn’t retaliatory, you would have brought it up in your “Moderator Note” as it obviously happened before then.
Instead, you use it as grounds for a “Formal Warning.” Fucking, weak.
I’ve had my eye on a place in Shar Lot.
If you pronounce it that way, the lyric cadence would no longer match with “barbecued iguana,” thus robbing Wall of Voodoo of their most well-known lyric.
WTF is wrong with you people? First I heard some stupid crap from an illiterate re TJ, then it gets to Israel? Get some balls, people – every language appropriates little local pronunciations as it sees fit. Ask a mick or a Mexican or a cocksucker limey (no offense intended) or even a frog or one of the moon children from south in Europe, country doesn’t matter.
I had a chuckle.
Born and raised in San Diego, lived there for my first 54 years. My Mom is half-Mexican; my Dad was adopted at birth by Mexican parents. Both of them spoke English and Spanish interchangeably from childhood. The only extended family I ever knew were on my Mom’s Mexican side, all from Southern California through Southern Arizona.
The only way I ever heard Tijuana pronounced was “tee-WONNA” or “tee-WHONNA.” The casual verbal shorthand was to call it “Tee Jay” or “Tee Town.”
The only time I ever heard “teeya-WONNA” or “teeya-WHONNA” was when the subject was the Tia Juana River.
Might have been different in other families, but that’s my story and I’m sticking to it.
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Closed at the request of the OP.
Idle
SDMB mod