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Re: Weird mistranslation
Posted By: codeman38, on host 24.4.253.144
Date: Sunday, April 22, 2001, at 12:30:41
In Reply To: Weird mistranslation posted by eric sleator on Friday, April 20, 2001, at 04:07:54:

> I was looking across a website for a Mexican
> city, and one page (see the link) was about a
> restaurant called "Rice & Beans." The page
> invites you to try the breakfasts and then goes
> on to tell you that their favorite is the
> "divorced eggs". I don't speak Spanish and have
> no clue what divorced eggs are. I assume that
> it's a direct translation of some Spanish figure
> of speech used for the food, but I don't know
> what it's supposed to mean.

This is *completely* unrelated to your query, but, eh, speaking of zany translations and food items, see the article below from the "Take Our Word For It" zine. Heh.

-- codeman"somebody set up us the sushi!"38


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