RNAi [he/him]@hexbear.net to Chapotraphouse@hexbear.netEnglish · 3 months agoSometimes violence is the best teacherhexbear.netimagemessage-square9fedilinkarrow-up147
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minus-squareBodyBySisyphus [he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·3 months ago fui deportado del pais del norte “I was deported from the country of the north”? Is that a common idiom?
minus-squareTraschcanOfIdeology [they/them, comrade/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·3 months agoI’ve read/heard it before. It’s also easy to assume if you tell a Mexican “the country to the north” they will assume it’s the US.
minus-squareBodyBySisyphus [he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·3 months agoI guess that’s reflective of the “south of the border” colloquialism in the US.
“I was deported from the country of the north”? Is that a common idiom?
I’ve read/heard it before. It’s also easy to assume if you tell a Mexican “the country to the north” they will assume it’s the US.
I guess that’s reflective of the “south of the border” colloquialism in the US.