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This just in. Radio Shack, which I seriously thought it had disappeared like ages ago, on Thursday said it will file for bankruptcy protection.
I’m sure it’s all for the best, but I was really looking forward to that translation-tortilla-helmet thing.
Either that, or the majority of patrons at my local bodega are not able to understand English.
Harlem, NYC
Photo: Laura Martínez, Juayúa, El Salvador.
God, please grant my people the wisdom to properly navigate/figure out job postings in my beloved New York City
Photo: Laura Martínez
Yeah, we liked her also en español.
RIP Robin Williams 08/11/2014
Oh, the nerve!
On top of not being able to spell properly in English -or Spanish- the owners of this Brooklyn building want my people not to do what we do best: haraganear (i.e. be lazy.)
Or maybe they meant to say hanguear?
Hat tip: Bathtubmedia.
It is always a good thing when U.S. organizations take the time to embrace other cultures -and languages. But, here’s a piece of advice: If you are a children’s museum seeking to encourage children to play and explore in English -and Spanish- you will be well advised to use proper Spanish translations and -ding!- do it right.
Now, you probably don’t have tons of money to hire someone awesome like, ahem, myself, but heck! at least you can use Google Translate. See below. It works!
So in a nutshell: Don’t be freaking lazy; do your job properly or stop “juagando” with my people.
UNLESS, of course, you meant to say “JuanGa” in which case I’m in and I wan to play!
Hat tip: Begoña Lozano, purveyor of awesome postings.
I picked up a Citibike today and was glad to find all the relevant information in Spanish.
Seriously, I think this was awesome, but I kind of felt bad for the non-Spanish crowd.
¡Gracias, señor DiBlassio! [or was this El Bloombito?]
I think it’s nice of retailers to include Spanish-language signage in their stores. But if they are going to go the extra mile to include accents, they would be well advised to check a dictionary.
That shouldn’t be that hard, would it?
Photo: Laura Martínez, NYC.
UPDATE: An earlier version of this post misidentified the store. The photo was taken at Burlington Coat Factory in New York City.
I don’t mean to brag, but you know? I wrote a book. Yes, a physical thing made of paper and ink, which was actually sold in Amazon.com and all, making it –at some point– to the New York Times list of The 500 Books You Will be Well Advised to Ignore (i.e. Not Buy.)
Anyhow, I did not make a penny out of the thing, but I had tons of fun co-writing it with the insanely funny Alexis Munier, an American nutcase imported from Switzerland, who came knocking on my Inbox many moons ago.
But I digress. It is with great delight [and thanks to the watchful eye of Diego Olivé] that I’m happy to see my opera prima reaching YouTube-celebrity status as important footage in this Lorrie Morgan & Sammy Kershaw rendition of He Drinks Tequila.
Here is Talk Dirty: Spanish, in all its literary glory.
This. Blogger. Can. Now. Die. In. Peace.
Photo: Lisa Paravano; blog correspondent in -where else?- Miami.
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….
It’s been only a few days since I’ve arrived in Spain, and the summer is in full swing, with Spaniards already preparing for their two-month beach extravaganza (financial crisis or not.)
And with the summer and the heat comes the sexy and the daring, including this TV spot featuring the spectacular Amaia Salamanca, best known for her role as Catalina Marcos in the Spanish version of Colombian hit series Sin tetas no hay paraíso.
Watch Amaia as she invites you to get wet, and enjoy the thrills of summer with a Spanish accent (and a tampon safely secured inside.)
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