If people wish to go to all those other hotels, they still can. If they wish for something a bit different, then they can come to this guy’s hotel.
Isn’t that how the market place works?
“A piece of White Breat...” Good grief fella, are you going to adopt La Raza’s vernacular now?
This is the United States. On our local news, the Hispanics have gone to speaking Hispanic names and phrases in as foreign a sounding way as is humanly possible. They are replacing our culture with their own in the public arena.
It really doesn’t add much to the presentation. It’s more distracting than anything. Like it or not, this is the U.S., and Westernized ways of pronouncing Spanish is not evil. It’s normal.
On Mexican soil, they butcher English words too. They should pronounce those words by their own cultural standards. So should we. Martin is the customary way to pronounce Marteen in an English speaking culture. Our culture here in the U.S. is English driven.
Taos sells the Hispanic New World ambience. I’ve actually BEEN there. You’re free to try to sell, say, ping-pong in a baseball town, but don’t complain if you flop.
Drives me nuts. Just address them in the same ridiculous accent they themselves use.
A local AM station here hired a new traffic chica named Nicole Huerta, which she pronounced "Neecoweta". If I ever meet her, that's what I'm using.