Hi yo…again…

Posted on Aug 03, 2009 by WHC Bassetti in Letters

Listen, Tonto, how many times do we have to do this to get it right? For our anglo phone readers Tonto means "stupid" in Spanish. When we were the project engineer on computer installations in Mexico the Mexican programmers used to joke endlessly about it. The Lone Ranger's (el llanero solitario) companion is called Toro in Spanish. It wouldn't do for the LR to be saying, hey stupid, what should we do about these redskins?

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