Photo: Laura Martínez, Isla Mujeres, 2013
Tag: Language
Nescafé Needs to Wake Up and Smell the Accents
If Nescafé Latino was going to be so rigorous as to put an accent over capital letters (i.e. “vacía”) it would have been well advised to do the same over “ESTE,” just not to confuse “East” with “To be.”
I’m just saying….
In Texas, ‘Prosecuteded’ is Spanish for ‘Prosecuted’
How do you Say ‘Appetizers’ in Cuban Spanish?
Based on my most recent trip to the island -where I spent a couple of weeks doing absolutely nothing language research- I realized Cubans are increasingly translating their restaurant menus, street signs and monument guides to cater to an ever-growing tourist industry.
One thing I couldn’t be 100% sure, though, is what the ‘Cuban’ word for appetizer was. While a paladar in Havana offered me a very limited variety of “incomings,” including 20 pieces of olives…
… Melaíto, a snack bar in Pinar del Río promised a more extended list of “entrances,” including “boilet greens” and “French Fried.”
Either way, I’m not happy to report that everything pretty much sucked. Cuba is gorgeous and its people are simply the best. Its food… well, that’s another story.
Photos: Laura Martínez, Cuba 2013
Here’s a Property I Won’t be Allowed in. For Sure.
The owners of this private condo in Ixtapa, Mexico surely don’t want people like me hanging around their property.
Oh, well.
Hat tip: Bego Lozano
English Spoken in Frontera Corozal, Chiapas
Coño! I’ll Never Become a Teacher in NYC
I have found yet another reason why a school will never hire me to teach anything…. anywhere.
According to the AP, Carlos Garcia, a New York City high-school teacher, has been suspended and fined with $15,000 for what school officials say was “misconduct for using it in his Manhattan classroom,” in other words, for saying the word “coño” out loud.
If uttering a word such as “coño” is considered “misconduct” in a classroom, this blogger has absolutely no future in the field of education. So without further ado, I am withdrawing my candidacy to assist Ms. Catherine P. Black in her new gig as NYC School Czar, even though she looks to be as clueless to handle the task as I am.
¡Coño!
When Will Hispanic Delivery Boys Understand…
…that the residents of Carroll Gardens in Brooklyn, N.Y. do NOT want aviators to be dumped on their apartment buildings?
Photo: José Simián
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