How to Laugh in tex(t)mex: Internet Jargon in Translation

Image courtesy of La Historia de Ana

After seeing both Spanish and English comments under a photo I posted on Facebook, a friend wrote: "I get it! ja, ja, ja, is ha, ha, ha in Spanish!" Well, yes. That is proper comic book-speak for laughing in Spanish.  Other jargon too begs for clarification.

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Arizona, In the News!

Thanks to Lalo Alcaraz and Pilar Marrero, via Facebook, for the tip!

YOU TOO CAN SPEAK SPANISH! More Tex[t]-Mexian Nostalgia

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Thanks to Mexican author and Tex[t]-Mex Galleryblog informant Pablo Jaime Sáinz for bringing this breaking news to my eyes!

Dora & Diego Versus Speedy Gonzales

Our August 12, 2007 entry below, wherein AT&T waxes eloquent regarding the beauty of a monolingual world in a 1920 advertisement provides the perfect segue to our next galleryblog installment, wherein a recently-hitched, Hollywood, Tejana celebrities start piling on Speedy Gonzales while giving themselves over to reverie regarding future the issue of rugrats, something like "hope" evanesces on the horizon of tomorrow! Click here for a tale that fuses celebrity, multi-lingualism, procreation, Hollywood, and an animated tag-team match wherein Dora and (Latino Himbo) Diego get medieval on Warner Brothers' ratoncito.