How many mistakes can you make in a 48-word print advertising?
The answer is: Plenty. Check out this full-page ad taken from the December issue of People en Español. And pardon the quality of this photo (I still cannot afford a scanner!)
Here are some hints for you: 1. Todo los dias. 2) Empenzado. 3) Octobre. 4) Deciembre 5) Antes de ellos entrar.
You would think that someone who can afford a full-page ad in the country’s largest Spanish-language magazine, would be able spare a few dollars copy-editing this thing. (Pssst: talk to me, You might be able to afford me… and I might be able to finally get a scanner!)
God, you’re such a snob, Laura!
Don’t be so tough with them. At least they were able to successfully spell HBO… (and Hoya)
Why would require a large company to AT LEAST be responsible and do their homework be considered snobbish?? Or do they think Latinos won’t notice….
To say nothing of acentos.
I am spending Christmas and New Years in the United States. Yesterday I picked up a “Hispanic” newspaper only to find out that not one paragraph had less than at least 10 mistakes. That is just sad…