[Bob]

What's the correct Spanish word for underachiever?

According to my high school Spanish teacher, who taught us traditional Castilian Spanish, the word you're looking for is mejicano.

I wouldn't doubt that he never forgave them for what they'd done to the Spanish language. He proposed that they should rename it Mexican since it's clearly not Spanish as is spoken in Spain.

And, yes, what little Spanish I still use, I speak it with the Castilian 'lisp'. You need to be careful about that near SF. :=)

[conservativeharleyguy]

In that context, SF could mean both San Francisco, and Santa Fe, since they are of somewhat proportionally equivalent population of "Lispers" regardless of language.

BTW. Local Hispanics in Northern NM (where I grew up), who still trace their origins back to the Conquistadors, speak an old form of Castilian Spanish. Their geographical isolation kept it relatively pure, aside from their Pueblo Indian linguistic influences.

BTWA. They really don't like the "Mojados" much either. They'll tell you that the only reason they let them in is "so the fat chicas can get married too".