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DianaT
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Please, give me the Spanish menu
If we want something translated into Spanish, we make sure we have a native speaker do the translation---as you all know, using a dictionary just
doesn't do it.
Over the years on Menus translated into English we have been offered some strange items, like a "hand sandwitch", and on one Mexican map they had
"points of destiny".
On the way down here the other day, at breakfast we were offered eggs with a 'pork shop'. But then came the little more difficult one --- the new
English menu at the La Pinta in Catavina.
Several strange items, but two of them really took us a few minutes to figure out.
Young Donkeys with shrimp, chicken or beef.
And a fish filete cooked "wing iron"
Diane and John 
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fdt
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You just made our day
A well informed Baja California traveler is a smart Baja California traveler!
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elizabeth
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O.K., I get the burritos, but what in the world is "wing iron"?
I love things like this. I've always thought that I could make a really good living in Mexico translating translated English into English!
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danaeb
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Not a translation, but one of my favorites, from a seafood restaurant in Georgetown: "OYSTERS, fresh sucked daily"
Experience enables you to recognize a mistake every time you repeat it.
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CaboRon
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| Quote: | Originally posted by danaeb
Not a translation, but one of my favorites, from a seafood restaurant in Georgetown: "OYSTERS, fresh sucked daily" |
Love those fresh sucked oysters
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Fred
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Small place in TJ.....................Food to go in rear
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danaeb
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OK - I finally got "wing iron". Somebody in the office must have had access to babelfish 
Experience enables you to recognize a mistake every time you repeat it.
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Natalie Ann
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Don't be secretive, danaeb, not good for the soul. What be wing iron?
Be yourself, everyone else is already taken.
.....Oscar Wilde
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danaeb
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I'm so easy....... "a la plancha" or "ala plancha" if you want the exact translation. Now I hope Diane doesn't get mad at me for giving it up.
Experience enables you to recognize a mistake every time you repeat it.
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mike odell
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A couple or so years back, at the entrance to Spa Buena Vista, was
a small Lonchera by the name of Tia Lichas, great little lady, used to
remind me of a Aunt, hair net and all. She with here limited English,
wanted to attract Americanos to here small but spotlesslly clean little
cafe. She put up a small plywood sign at the road, anouncing Eggs with
Porky Ham Meat! We ate there a lot, and enjoyed the sign until one day
a Gringo corrected her, and in her embarassment she changed the sign to
just Eggs y Ham. I'd like to kick that Gringos butt, and give him or her a
don't bring your baggage here button~!
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Mango
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My Spanish teacher in college loved to make us do impromptu role-playing.
Once he grabbed a guy in the class.. told him he just walked into a small cafe in Spain and.... saw the most beautiful girl he has ever seen..(as he
shoved him in font of a girls desk in class)
The teacher prompted him.. what do you say?
The student... motioned to the seat next to the girl and tried to ask, may I sit?
But what he said was..
Con permiso sentirse? (May I feel you?)
Only a difference of one letter from Sentar (to sit) to sentir (to feel)...
What a big difference it was.. the teacher was on the ground laughing, crying, pounding his fist on the ground for about 20 minutes as the class
erupted into laughter.
Sometimes we mess up pretty good too. 
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Pescador
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I had the owner of the trailer park we were staying in ask me one morning how rough the water was. I replied in my best spanish that it was windy and
I tengo mucho mierdo. What I should have said was Yo tengo mucho miedo. Mierdo being the slang word for excrement. She had a funny look on her
face and said boy that was beyond scary.
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bajabound2005
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From our local e-bulletin board:
"Hello, good stay in Punta Banda B.C we are offering the service of food. Breakfasts from $ 4 dollars to $6 dollars, meals and suppers from $5 dollars
to $10 dollars, subjects of gossip of seafood from $10 dollars to$ 20 dollars. desserts of all type, service of food at home.
if you have a group of 10 people or but, you I can prepare a Mexican buffet of food or any other type of food. I have a small cafeteria course to the
ex- hotel Baja Beach, this located in the field beach golden next to the highway. the schedules are of Friday to Sunday of 9 in the morning to 2 of
afternoon. my mail is xxxxx@xxx.com my cellular 555 555 5555 and one is my house is if you please to contact you can send a mail to me or if it
pleases it can call to some of the written down numbers. thanks [name of person]
Subscript my services are available all the week in breakfast schedule or has supper received 50% of the service when asking for it and other 50% paid
when giving the service thanks by their preference"
OK - I changed out the names, emails and phones #s but the "gossip of seafood" and "field beach golden" really caught our eyes. We finally figured
out the "gossip" as an "ITEM" --- still haven't figured out the field beach golden...since then, we've taken over posting her stuff for her...
Friends don't let friends drink white zinfandel.
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mike odell
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Another one that I love:
On all doors entering the Los Cabos Airport. " You are now entering a
smog free environment" Please, spelling police. leave this alone!!
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BMG
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Spelling seems to be okay...
...but what the?
[Edited on 9-14-2007 by BMG]
I think the world is run by C- students.
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Oso
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"field beach golden"= Campo Playa Dorada
I REALLY want to know what's in "I dance with your wife style" eggs.
All my childhood I wanted to be older. Now I\'m older and this chitn sucks.
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fdt
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This thread is way to funny
Once they hired a new door man for La Cabaña del Hotel Perla in La Paz and it was so funny, he would greet americans "Good night, pass for favor,
drink a seat " = "Buenas noches, pase por favor, tome un asiento"
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bufeo
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| Quote: | | Originally posted by Oso... I REALLY want to know what's in "I dance with your wife style" eggs. |
It's only a guess, but since bailar can be used figuratively in expressions where we might say "as the notion strikes", perhaps these eggs
just come out any way his wife wants them.
Whatever, they're not as expensive as "divorced" ones.
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Ken Bondy
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I have a slight twist to this thread. Once I was in the old Cesar's restaurant in Loreto and our group had stuffed ourselves on the famous seafood
combination. There was lots of good food left and I didn't want to see it wasted. So I thought I would order a "doggie bag". Never having ordered a
doggie bag in Spanish, I tried a literal translation. I asked the waiter, who spoke almost no English, for a "saco de perro". The waiter burst into
laughter. He could hardly speak in either language. Cesar, who spoke good English, came over to our table to see what was going on. After the
waiter explained the situation to him, Cesar told me politely that in perfect Spanish, I had just ordered a dog scrotum. Cesar said that they get
very few orders for those, and asked how I wanted it prepared.
++Ken++
PS he also explained that I probably wanted a "bolsa de perro".
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Ken Bondy
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Oso
I REALLY want to know what's in "I dance with your wife style" eggs. |
They must really be good because they cost 5 pesos more than eggs with orphans in them.
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