
Sign at McDonald's: Happy Meal con Hamburguesa
Sign at an auto dealership (near tax time): Nosotros financiamos, use your tax refund
Described in a lecture: The use of the adjective estresado (not in my Spanish dictionary) to describe a feeling of being stressed out in a particularly American way
In the Santa Fe New Mexican:
• Editorial on foreign languages in high school: "School districts would have to offer two years of a foreign language--but, desgraciadamente, it wouldn't be required for graduation."
• Title of an editorial on the pilgrimage to the Santuaria de ChimayĆ³ before Easter: "From far and near come peregrinos; walkers, drivers: caution."
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