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  1. Yes, that's true. But much less of that in Spanish than English. My youngest daughter basically taught herself to read when she was 4. She just picked up on it so easily. She could actually read my books at the age of 5- she certainly didn't understand all the vocabulary, but she understood how the language was constructed and could correctly read out long words she didn't understand the meaning of. When she was first starting to read, she was reading out loud to me and there was some word like "although" and she was trying to pronounce it with sounds for the gh. I told her that the gh was silent in that word. So the next day she was reading one of her own books to me and came across the word ghost, and pronounced it "ost" because she remembered that the gh was silent. Then I had to try to explain how difficult and seemingly senseless a lot of written English is 🙂
  2. Yes, I had a hard time figuring out why some of the older Mexicans I hired for various things never answered my texts (in Spanish), yet always answered the phone if I called. It finally dawned on me, after getting a few really badly spelled texts from a few, that many of them are probably illiterate or at least embarrassed about their lack of writing skills. I've read before articles on the coping mechanisms that people who are illiterate, no matter where they are from, use so as not to reveal that they actually can't read. Things like "Oh, I forgot my glasses, could you read that out to me."
  3. Oh, I wasn't contradicting you on that- I was saying the nasty butcher shop in my town cleaned up their act not when the big box stores came in, but when other butcher shops opened in my town. It was local competition, in that case, with no gagging rotten meat smell and clean interiors that drove the change in the original shop. The big box stores came in long before that, and it didn't lead to any changes in the original dirty one.
  4. I'm just one of those people who luckily always found spelling correctly quite easy. Even in Spanish. (It's even easier in Spanish, since things are pretty much spelled like they sound, and there aren't silent letters and weird things like gh sounding like an f, as in "enough") But there's a few words that I have some sort of mental block about and always have to look up to make sure I've got it right.
  5. You're right- I'm not a typist, so that didn't occur to me. That would be a big learning curve- you'd have to go to Mexican typing class, and even then, seems like it would be really hard to switch over. I took a typing course about 35 years ago, but I've pretty much forgotten all I learned, because I didn't use a keyboard for many years after that. But I'm not too slow for a hunt and pecker 🙂
  6. For me, that was true for maybe a week, but then I got used to it. The symbols I seldom use I might have had to go back and look up, but the common ones were pretty easy. You could always make little stickers for the keys to make it clear.
  7. Not everyone has the same symptoms. A friend of mine had it, but never had a fever. There are more symptoms besides the ones you mention, too. A couple of nurses posted somewhere a few weeks back a symptom they saw in every one of their COVID patients, that hasn't been mentioned elsewhere- red eyes. Not the whites of the eyes, but the eyes encircled with red, as if you had applied red eye shadow to the skin all around your eyes. Most diseases can vary as to the symptoms, depending on the patient. I had dengue a few years ago, but I never had a fever. Had chills, every bone in my body felt like it was broken, even my skin hurt to touch, and I had the classic dull headache right behind the eyes. But never had a fever and never lost my appetitie, as many dengue sufferers have reported.
  8. Yes, I remember well. A lot of the veggies that were out for sale, you'd think they would have been embarrassed to leave there. They weren't fit for human consumption, unless one was truly starving, they belonged in the pig trough. All the changes like this don't have to do with big box stores, though. There was one butcher shop in my town until about 11 years ago. It was really disgusting- I had to hold my breath every time I went in there. There was ancient dried blood everywhere, and surfaces that could never be adequately cleaned. Then more butcher shops started opening in town, with new, clean, scubbable interiors. It took a few years after that before the original butcher shop stepped up their game. I guess they finally realized they had competition and why. I've noticed the same thing with the way some of the locals keep their properties. A lot of homes used to have yards covered in garbage, but it seems like since they saw not only the way foreigners keep their properties, but how many of the well-off local Mexicans with successful businesses kept their properties looking, a lot of those formerly eye-sore yards have cleaned up their act, even though the same people are living there.
  9. I'm your basic techno-dummy, and I'm sure the techno-savvy will give you more detailed responses, but I have a laptop with a Spanish language keyboard, and Windows 10, and it took a bit of getting used to, but I haven't had any problem with using it after setting it up to English. There's a few things that are weird to get used to, like having to use the Alt Gr key with some of the symbols, like @, but unless you're someone who has a really hard time with a new learning curve, which it doesn't sound like, don't let it intimidate you. I actually find it useful to have the "ñ" on the keyboard if I type a Spanish word.
  10. There aren't a whole lot of foods that are high in zinc, but some that are, are pumpkin seeds, which are readily available here, meat, legumes, nuts, many vegetables, and oysters, crab and lobster. If you can't get zinc tablets, eat a couple handfuls of pumpkin seeds every day, and try to make sure you eat a lot of some of those other foods, too. Vitamins and minerals consumed in food are actually more readily absorbed by the body than supplements in pill form, anyway. Not to say it's a bad idea to do both, if available.
  11. No, I said "in a perfect world". In a perfect world, I'd have a brand new shiny car to drive every year, unlimited quantities of disposable income, I and my family and friends would always be healthy, there would be world peace and no pollution. But we don't live perfect world.
  12. In a perfect world, everyone would be tested, because according to more and more that is being found out, it's the asymptomatic, but infected people who are passing this around the most.
  13. It was my opinion. Isn't that what everyone does here- gives their opinion? At least I don't personally attack other posters, I just disagree with what they might have to say. And just becuse I voice my opinion, doesn't mean I think I'm right and everyone else is wrong, in spite of that being your take.
  14. Yes, Home Depot's prices are far higher than my local hardware stores and not better quality. I wasn't telling anyone how to live. I was saying that baby food isn't some essential item that Mexicans need, as GringoHombre put forth. I didn't say it was evil, or dangerous. I said it isn't a necessity. And please don't tell me what I'm going to post next, just because you object to some of my posts.
  15. No, I'm not joking. What I said is true. And i'm not cooped up for weeks. I have a nice piece of property to hang out in and I've been gardening all day. My life isn't that much different right now than it usually is.
  16. I've found that, too, and seldom find any need to go to Home Depot. In fact, Home Depot is often out of things I'm looking for, and the staff is pretty clueless. And half the time the price on the bin is not what I get charged at checkout, then it entails e standing around for 10 minutes while they send someone who walks like a tortuga to do a price check. The local hardware stores where I live seem to pretty much keep their stock up and the oweners are knowledgable about what they have. Baby food? No one needs to buy baby food. I raised three kids and never bought baby food once, neither have any of my daughters for their babies. Babies eat whatever they have the teeth for, from starting out on mushed up bananas and yams and then move on to other foods as they are able to chew. Commercial baby food is just a marketing gimmick and utterly unnecessary. How is it that the human race was able to survive and overpopulate the earth without commercial baby food?
  17. How can you still be so sadly uninformed? People don't have to be sick to pass on this virus. Many carriers are completely asymptomatic. And even people who do get sick can easily pass the virus on before they show symptoms. It has a 14 day incubation period. If only people who were obviously sick were the only ones passing it on, it wouldn't have gotten to be a pandemic of these proportions.
  18. Came for the day??? That sort of laxness and flaunting of the self-isolation orders is exactly what causes this virus to spread. You don't have to register a fever to be infected and infect others. How can people still be so clueless? And care so little about their fellow humans.
  19. And you know for a fact that neither the barber, the other people who live in the barber's home, and you yourself are completely virus-free, right? You don't get infected from "crowds"- you get infected from coming in contact with someone else who has it.
  20. I pay my Hacienda taxes online all the time. The SAT website takes you right to a payment option, you choose your Mexican bank, and then it takes you to your bank site where the info is already filled in.
  21. If you don't understand the difference between going out to shop with mask and gloves and social distancing, then sterilizing when you get home, and having a hairdresser or massage therapist come into your home, it seems you don't understand high risk situations for transmission of the virus at all, or you simply don't care.
  22. See Spencer's post today in this same section of the forum. INM is allowing extensions of the tourist card.
  23. They aren't accurate anywhere. But it's all we have to go one right now. Multiply it by 4 or even 10, that's probably more accurate. There are plenty of people who are asymptomatic and those are most likely the ones who are the most responsible for spreading this around. People who are actually feeling quite sick aren't out and about. A lots of people who might have mild symptoms, but aren't feeling that sick, may never go to to a doctor or hospital, so they won't get counted.
  24. For those of you who are daily drinkers, you can now use the $ you'll save by not buying booze to purchase and donate protective gear to the hospitals and clinics for their staff.
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