I had never considered this, but it now makes a ton of sense, thank you. I love explanatory transliterations.Others can chime in who know language better, but I notice Spanish speakers will refer to the "ground" as the "floor" in English.
I have Spanish-speaking neighbors who do that, and that's my source. No link.
jmopinion
And if they did arrive in the same vehicle, what time did the husband notice she wasn't back with the mouth guard? Did he call her? Who contacted him about his wife? Did she call him?
"Before going into the store, she said she started to change the baby's diaper. She took him out of the car seat and placed him on the chair. At that moment, she said she was hit from behind and Emmanuel was taken. "Someone said, 'Hola.' I couldn't even turn, I don't remember nothing," Haro said."
I don’t agree with this statement
They have some that you dont need to boil. They used to sell them for $5 at the football field where my son played. My son frequently lost or chewed through his mouth guard & I had to buy him new ones at least a few times a season.
This is mostly true, but it’s also regional slang. I’m from the area, just about 45 minutes away, but it’s all connected as an outer desert town before you hit the more urban, downtown-esq areas like San Bernardino or Riverside… people in these areas do not speak proper grammar whatsoever. We have mostly low income Hispanic and a heavy Native American presence in that particular area. It’s almost like a new slang language was created where people interchange words that don’t make a whole lot of sense grammatically, yet everyone says it. There isn’t a lot of thought for past, present or future tense. Everyone says “I didn’t see nothing” or “I seen”, so saying floor instead of ground isn’t surprisingOthers can chime in who know language better, but I notice Spanish speakers will refer to the "ground" as the "floor" in English.
I have Spanish-speaking neighbors who do that, and that's my source. No link.
jmopinion
Piso is floor, suelo is the ground, although I suspect regional usage may vary.
So yes, I agree the word choice is odd. But who do I think is more likely to use the wrong word — someone making up a story, or someone who was concussed and is going through unfathomable trauma? Someone suggested maybe she was recounting an event that happened somewhere else, but that doesn’t seem more likely to me. I also know I’ll randomly forget common words for things. Probably most likely — someone being interviewed on the news for the first time. Adds to the weirdness, but not a significant detail to me.
I once had a black eye from hitting my face on the edge of a very skinny metal stall door that was opened at just the right angle so I couldn't see it. BUT it also left marks on my cheekbone and forehead. I was walking fast and hit it so hard I might have had a mild concussion. So while that can happen, there would be something more than just a black eye to show for it probably."Someone said, 'Hola.' I couldn't even turn, I don't remember nothing," Haro said."
How she get the visible black eye then? Surely she would have had to have been turned to get the hit to the face? If she had been slammed forwards and her face hit something - whilst leaning into the car as she stated - then that's quite a bullseye that just her eye hit something, not her nose, head or mouth.
Yah nah this is hinkier by the millisecond. I know here we do not victim blame and I'm not, but none of this makes any sense.
Where is poor Emmanuel
ETA - Saying floor isn't unusual to me at all. Like I'm English and we say floor as a norm. You fall on the floor, you hit the floor. It's still floor if it's outside or in, wood, grass, concrete... It's all floor IMO
I got a partial black eye when I fell and hit my temple just a glancing blow on the pavement, even with my hands breaking most of the fall, for whatever that is worth.
