Southern California - Spanish question from a pocho: yelling at wrongway riders?

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caloso
04-05-07, 11:00 AM
A question for the fluent and native Spanish-speakers. (I'm a third generation Mexican and grew up speaking English at home. It's been a long time since I took Spanish 1A in college.)

Whenever I encounter a wrong-way rider who looks like a Spanish-speaker, I'll yell ¡En la derecha! Does this sound right? Is it more grammatical to say "por la derecha"? I realize that I'm probably yelling at poor and uneducated peones but I want to be understood. On the other hand, I don't want to come off as a snob (although that's probably unavoidable in the circumstances).

¿Que piensas? Muchas gracias.


kb5ql
04-05-07, 11:06 AM
A question for the fluent and native Spanish-speakers. (I'm a third generation Mexican and grew up speaking English at home. It's been a long time since I took Spanish 1A in college.)

Whenever I encounter a wrong-way rider who looks like a Spanish-speaker, I'll yell ¡En la derecha! Does this sound right? Is it more grammatical to say "por la derecha"? I realize that I'm probably yelling at poor and uneducated peones but I want to be understood. On the other hand, I don't want to come off as a snob (although that's probably unavoidable in the circumstances).

¿Que piensas? Muchas gracias.

simply yell '¡Lárgate cabrón! ¡Éste lado es mío!'

or you can always throw around this fun comment:

http://static.rateyourmusic.com/album_images/s4492.jpg

Mo'Phat
04-05-07, 11:47 AM
Technically...'En su derecha' translates to 'on your right'. But it's probably not common vernacular.

I've found that whistling like you're training dolphins gets universal attention.


voltman
04-05-07, 11:49 AM
simply yell '¡Lárgate cabrón! ¡Éste lado es mío!'

or you can always throw around this fun comment:

http://static.rateyourmusic.com/album_images/s4492.jpg

It's funny that the people who make comments like this are usually pretty poor English speakers themselves.

Chucklehead
04-05-07, 12:17 PM
weird. one of my friends had the nickname "pocho" or "bocho" when we were growing up. never knew what it meant until now:lol: