traderspoc Posted January 22, 2018 Report Share Posted January 22, 2018 https://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/destinations/2018/01/22/ajijic-mexicos-expat-paradise-lake/1053332001/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yo1 Posted January 22, 2018 Report Share Posted January 22, 2018 Good grief!! Who taught the author how to pronounce Ajijic? A newbie? Just what we don't need is another media attempt to show what a paradise we have here. The traffic is bad enough now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RickS Posted January 23, 2018 Report Share Posted January 23, 2018 "I'm here so shut the gate, huh? BTW that is the exact pronunciation that "old timers" were using my first trip here in 1997. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Travis Posted January 23, 2018 Report Share Posted January 23, 2018 1 hour ago, RickS said: BTW that is the exact pronunciation that "old timers" were using my first trip here in 1997. Maybe that's why so many people continue to pronounce it wrong, including this writer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mudgirl Posted January 23, 2018 Report Share Posted January 23, 2018 Pretty bizarre to mispronounce the name of the town one lives in or visits on a regular basis. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RickS Posted January 23, 2018 Report Share Posted January 23, 2018 Oh, I think there are hundreds of them (places, not people!) including Ixtlahuacan de Los Membrillos and Atotonilquillo.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barcelonaman Posted January 23, 2018 Report Share Posted January 23, 2018 Always fancied living in wales but..llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch was a bit much. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AngusMactavish Posted January 23, 2018 Report Share Posted January 23, 2018 2 hours ago, RickS said: Oh, I think there are hundreds of them (places, not people!) including Ixtlahuacan de Los Membrillos and Atotonilquillo.... Especially Tijuana. It pains me to see the news people say Tiajuana, especially on the National Geographic channel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CHILLIN Posted January 23, 2018 Report Share Posted January 23, 2018 2 hours ago, barcelonaman said: Always fancied living in wales but..llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch was a bit much. Jonah lived in whales - all he had to do was to learn to talk to God for three days. Unbelievably, I can actually pronounce that Welsh location! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ComputerGuy Posted January 23, 2018 Report Share Posted January 23, 2018 I'll believe that when I hear it... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AngusMactavish Posted January 24, 2018 Report Share Posted January 24, 2018 2 hours ago, ComputerGuy said: I'll believe that when I hear it... How would you know if it was the correct pronunciation? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CHILLIN Posted January 24, 2018 Report Share Posted January 24, 2018 Well - I did study Welsh for one year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ComputerGuy Posted January 24, 2018 Report Share Posted January 24, 2018 15 hours ago, AngusMactavish said: How would you know if it was the correct pronunciation? A joke, Angie. You remember those, right? Also, I used to watch Tom Jones on The Ed Sullivan Show. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AngusMactavish Posted January 24, 2018 Report Share Posted January 24, 2018 Just now, ComputerGuy said: A joke, Angie. Not funny here, ComputerGay. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ComputerGuy Posted January 24, 2018 Report Share Posted January 24, 2018 Lol, good one! Easily upset, are we? To bring this back to the original post. Just like the nightly news, it is impossible to shoehorn a comprehensive description of an isolated incident or location for the rest of the world to understand. That's why when the gummint releases a travel advisory, I get all kinds of calls and messages from friends back home worried for my life. They just don't get the overall picture. In this case, I'd say that the author was particularly taken with our area, and wrote same. Just as I was, my first visits here. For example, I marvelled at the huge number of fabulous restaurants. But I was in vacation mode, and everything was sunny, happy, and don't worry. Eventually my taste buds learned to separate the wheat from the chaff, so to speak, in terms of Mexican food, and I was suddenly no longer a vacationing tourist. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AngusMactavish Posted January 24, 2018 Report Share Posted January 24, 2018 23 minutes ago, ComputerGuy said: Easily upset, are we? Not upset at all, but I marvel at your ignorance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ComputerGuy Posted January 24, 2018 Report Share Posted January 24, 2018 ... doth protest too much... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CHILLIN Posted January 24, 2018 Report Share Posted January 24, 2018 Tom Jones!?!? I'm more the John Cale type. He likes Shakespeare too, His re-release of "Hallelujah" is based on MacBeth. https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/watch-john-cales-macbeth-inspired-hallelujah-cover-w448254 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ComputerGuy Posted January 24, 2018 Report Share Posted January 24, 2018 Tom Jones, because he used to say Thank You and Good Night in Welsh after performing on Sullivan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El congrejo Posted January 26, 2018 Report Share Posted January 26, 2018 I’m with RickS on the pronuciation understanding from years ago. Would be interesting to ask one of the Huicholes as, like many places, it is a Nahua word. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ellie Posted January 26, 2018 Report Share Posted January 26, 2018 Well, when I moved here 21 years ago everyone we met pronounced it as Aah hee heek.... no emphasis on any syllable. However, there were many Canadians who somewhere had been told Aah HEE heek. Still grates on my ears to hear that on occasion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paradise Posted January 29, 2018 Report Share Posted January 29, 2018 Not sure what to think about the article.... i came down with a friend and his lady and we got rooms at chapala real next to the lake. I had decided just to get rooms for 1 night. Next morning i told my friend "we are out of here" i was not pleased with the price they charge for the rooms. We went over to hotel danza del sol and were very pleased. When the reporter says the real the chapala is the most blah blah blah.... that is truly an incorrect statement Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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