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To: r9etb

“Wetback” is a term for Mexicans who immigrate illegally to the United States.[1] It is generally used as an ethnic slur, and is sometimes applied to Mexican-Americans or others of Latin American decent. Wiki.

How could I have used it incorrectly?
Wetback is a wetback. Please tell me what I did wrong.
Punctuation, spelling, grammar, syntax, what?
It is killing me! I wanted so much to impress you.
Damn, a gringo missed his chance. Maybe some day we get
to drum them (wetbacks) out of our country. Maybe even float them back.


31 posted on 12/13/2010 3:17:56 PM PST by Doulos1 (Bitter Clinger Forever!)
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To: Doulos1
Well, son, "wetback" refers to somebody who crossed a river to get here. Rivers are somewhat scarce in the Sonoran Desert -- an illegal who crossed same would not be a "wetback."

Be that as it may, your silly little epithet was more an expression of your angst than a useful description. It marks you as angry, rather than rational.

And your ridiculous little rants to me do nothing to improve my already low opinion of your ideas.

34 posted on 12/13/2010 8:11:14 PM PST by r9etb
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