It's official, MSNBC calls the DR "the Dominican"

[TheOP]

not necessarily, people will use both "I'm American" or "I'm from the USofA", when I travel overseas, I would tell people that I am American, because hopefully they would figure out that Americans are from the USofA, so there's no need to say the entire country when asked.

The same for "Soy Dominicano" or I'm German.

Of course, Ricardo. I myself at times answer to the question "where are you from" with a "soy dominicano" and other times with a "I'm from the Dom. Rep."

But then again, the question is where are you from, not what your nationality is. It's subtle and it may not have great importance, but "where are you from" asks for where you where born, so you 'need' the name of a geographic place in the question. Saying your nationality works just fine too.

 

[El Tigre]

Man this topic has been beaten to death on this site. I remember seeing posts like this ever since I joined back in 2003.

Everyone calls it differently.

When referring to the country what is right is The Dominican Republic. Not the Dominican, not Dominicana, not Santo Domingo etc. It's THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC. DR for short.

When someone asks me where I am from I say from the Dominican Republic. When I ask my friends when was the last time they went back home I ask "when was the last time you went back to the DR" in English. In spanish I ask "cuando fue la ultima ves que fuiste a la RD".

Por favor - let's put this to rest once and for all and let's make it a sticky so that everyone else can read.

 

[TheOP]

Man this topic has been beaten to death on this site. I remember seeing posts like this ever since I joined back in 2003.

Everyone calls it differently.

When referring to the country what is right is The Dominican Republic. Not the Dominican, not Dominicana, not Santo Domingo etc. It's THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC. DR for short.

When someone asks me where I am from I say from the Dominican Republic. When I ask my friends when was the last time they went back home I ask "when was the last time you went back to the DR" in English. In spanish I ask "cuando fue la ultima ves que fuiste a la RD".

Por favor - let's put this to rest once and for all and let's make it a sticky so that everyone else can read.

No se para que dices que este tema se ha discutido demasiado y que debemos dejar de hablar del mismo, si tu todavia sigues hablando de el. A proposito, eres la primera persona de la que se que usa RD en sus elocuciones.

Eso si que suena rarisimo en espanol! En ingles suena bien; pero en espanol para nada.

Posdata: Antes de que empieces a lapidarme por la falta de acentos y otros signos diacriticos en mi texto, toma en cuenta que estoy digitando desde una computadora portatil, y que por tanto se me dificulta digitar los signos de acentuacion propios del castellano.

 

[El Tigre]

No se para que dices que este tema se ha discutido demasiado y que debemos dejar de hablar del mismo, si tu todavia sigues hablando de el. A proposito, eres la primera persona de la que se que usa RD en sus elocuciones.

Eso si que suena rarisimo en espanol! En ingles suena bien; pero en espanol para nada.

Posdata: Antes de que empieces a lapidarme por la falta de acentos y otros signos diacriticos en mi texto, toma en cuenta que estoy digitando desde una computadora portatil, y que por tanto se me dificulta digitar los signos de acentuacion propios del castellano.

Cuando te refieres al pais como lo que es, un pais con un nombre, como te refieres? La Republica, Dominicana, o que?

Yo simplemente queria aclarar que la UNICA manera CORRECTA de referirse a la isla una ves nombrada Hispaniola es La Republica Dominicana y no de otra forma.

Sobre tu postada - esto no es un examen ortografico. Porque tendria yo que lanzarte piedras?

 

[suarezn]

Being a Dominican It does get on my nerves when people call it The Dominican. Worse in the CNBC vide report the heading called it "The Dominican Republican"...morons. The quote was "NBC’s Kerry Sanders reports from the Dominican Republican".

Personally I wish we officially changed the name of the country and call it what it should be called which is "Quisqueya". This Dominican name causes too much confusion...

 

[RHM]

...it's your choice and it's not so much that its improper, it just makes you look dumb. (most gringos abroad don't need any help with that)

MrMike...move to the front of the class. You have just summed it up very nicely.

I always tell people that you will NEVER look dumb or get a strange look for calling it "the DR" or "the Dominican Republic" but if you call it "the Dominican" you probably will...you are now informed...go forth and choose to call it whatever you want.

Scandall

 

[mountainfrog]

Too Long for Short Brains

... in the CNBC vide report the heading called it "The Dominican Republican"...morons. The quote was "NBC?s Kerry Sanders reports from the Dominican Republican".

This just shows that newspaper articles cannot serve as a thesaurus.
Dominican newspapers are full of howlers anyway?, better not take them seriously.

People who can't pronounce or don't take the time to call this country "Dominican Republic" or "Rep?blica Domincana" are baby brabblers. :laugh:

Crooaaaaaaak.

m'frog

 

[NALs]

Message to "The OP",

Let it go.

As much as you can try to make many of the people here understand what you are trying to tell them, it appears they never will.

I (and I'm sure other Dominicans on this board) understand exactly what you are saying.

Nuff said.

-NALs

 

[DominicanScotty]

That's it....

I got the only chute left and I am jumping! Aye yie yie already...

 

[azabache]

I got the only chute left and I am jumping! Aye yie yie already...

Yes...this is bizarre. I think I'll now go and take charge of mi locrio y un Presidente:bunny:

 

[momita]

This just shows that newspaper articles cannot serve as a thesaurus.
Dominican newspapers are full of howlers anyway?, better not take them seriously.

People who can't pronounce or don't take the time to call this country "Dominican Republic" or "Rep?blica Domincana" are baby brabblers. :laugh:

Crooaaaaaaak.

m'frog

Once I heard an old teacher say that grammar is not a code of rules but it is like manners. It records what is done by cultured people and like manners it is in a state of constant change.I LIKE THIS. It expresses what grammar really is.
Then ...never know...never know The Dominican Republic or The Dominican


Momita:glasses:

 

[Boletero]

Can some one clarify for me who is that uses "The Dominican"? To tell you the truth, up until i joined this message board i've never heard the beatiful island where i was born being reffered to as "The Dominican", i have heard it only when reffering to some one as in "he's the dominican" but never as in "im going to the dominican". on the other hand, "i'm going to santo domingo" while speaking to some1 who is dominican is very well common. i do it all the time and so do all my dominican friends. not that that is the correct way, but its well understood where u are going.

again, up until i joined this message board i didnt know ppl refered to DR as "the Dominican". doesnt sound right :ermm:


mis cinco pesos
Boletero

"cien peso por una boladora?!?!? tu ta cakeao muchacho ei diablo?!?!"

Boletero

 

[bob saunders]

Texas?....

Isn't that the republic of Texas

 

[qgrande]

Can some one clarify for me who is that uses "The Dominican"? To tell you the truth, up until i joined this message board i've never heard the beatiful island where i was born being reffered to as "The Dominican", i have heard it only when reffering to some one as in "he's the dominican" but never as in "im going to the dominican". on the other hand, "i'm going to santo domingo" while speaking to some1 who is dominican is very well common. i do it all the time and so do all my dominican friends. not that that is the correct way, but its well understood where u are going.

again, up until i joined this message board i didnt know ppl refered to DR as "the Dominican". doesnt sound right :ermm:


mis cinco pesos
Boletero

"cien peso por una boladora?!?!? tu ta cakeao muchacho ei diablo?!?!"

Boletero

Just listen to most tourists, Dominican born Major League baseball players and Felix Sanchez .

It's really annoying when people that should know better start to use it; just like the Dutch tourist board uses "visit Holland" and the Ducth cricket team at the last World Cup carried shirts with "Holland", just because the Americans and English would find "The Netherlands" too complicated. Just wait until the Dominican tourist board starts to refer to the country as "The Dominican" on its websites, just to get in ine with what most tourists are comfortable with.

BTW, the Dominican tourist board for the Benelux has come up with another abbreviation: 'DomRep'. : www.visitdomrep.com.

 

[qgrande]

BTW, the Dominican tourist board for the Benelux has come up with another abbreviation: 'DomRep'. : www.visitdomrep.com.

Oh, and, of course, among the links at that website....

 

[helpmann]

East Haiti...

Even Dominicans don't know what to the call the country. All the Dominicans (over the age of 40) in NYC all call it Santo Domingo.

When is someone going to campaign to have the country's name changed to something they can sell to tourists? Like "Quisqueyana" or "East Haiti?"

-Helpmann :laugh:

 

[A.Hidalgo]

Even Dominicans don't know what to the call the country. All the Dominicans (over the age of 40) in NYC all call it Santo Domingo.

When is someone going to campaign to have the country's name changed to something they can sell to tourists? Like "Quisqueyana" or "East Haiti?"

-Helpmann :laugh:

Hey buddy I'm over 40, live in NY, born in the Dominican Republic and guess what, that's what I call it. Why some Dominicans call the country Santo Domingo that's for another thread. Don't generalize.

East Haiti???????

 

[juancarlos]

Cubans usually call DR Santo Domingo too. I guess many people do because that's how the island was called for centuries. The French also called it Saint Domingue. Only when formally speaking is the title DR used, or to avoid confusion with the capital city.

Anyway, did the MSNBC report mention something about crime?