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To: Texan5

“Mojado” usually translates to “wet.” If you, as a Hispanic are okay with that term, then so am I.


16 posted on 04/22/2016 2:03:03 PM PDT by IronJack
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To: IronJack

In proper Spanish, that is all it means-wet-but in the vernacular of the Norteno/Texmex dialect spoken on both sides of the border by people of all ethnicities as our second language, it is “wetback”-as in one who swims the river to get here illegally-it is one of the worst pejoratives in that language-and no, I don’t have a problem with it-my ancestors wandered into W/SW Texas and NM well over 200 years ago to set up ranching-I say mojado all the time...


19 posted on 04/22/2016 4:21:21 PM PDT by Texan5 ("You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line"...)
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To: IronJack

“Mojado” usually translates to “wet.”

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As in the ubiquitous “piso mojado” signs.

If someone doesn’t understand “wet floor” in English, they deserve to fall on their a$$.


20 posted on 04/22/2016 7:52:33 PM PDT by Graybeard58
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