{"id":29,"date":"2008-02-07T06:37:55","date_gmt":"2008-02-07T12:37:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/english-as-she-is-spoke-29.htm"},"modified":"2008-02-09T20:29:35","modified_gmt":"2008-02-10T02:29:35","slug":"english-as-she-is-spoke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/english-as-she-is-spoke-29.htm","title":{"rendered":"English As She Is Spoke"},"content":{"rendered":"

Serving as a world language has its disadvantages. The English translations of Spanish menu items in Buenos Aires were interesting, but in Patagonia the menus were challenging. At a caf\u00e9 in a national park, we were presented with the following choices.<\/span> <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Entradas
\nMinestrone
\nSoup of Gourd <\/span><\/span><\/span>
\nCaesar Salad: mix of vegetables, cheese chicken, grudges, cream of anchovies and capers.<\/span><\/span><\/span>Tibia de Vegetables
\nVegetable Tibia: peppers and carrots in Julian, tomatos roasted, asparagus, champignones skipped in soybean sauce on mix of green, with grudges of cheese and Popes bolangere.<\/span><\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>Plato Principal
\n<\/span>Steak of Garlic Sausage to the Cheese, on pure enceballado to the screw, rustic sauce of red wine and Popes.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

By careful comparison with the Spanish menu we decided that the Popes were potatoes (papas), but some items (to the screw? grudges?) remained shrouded in darkest gloom.<\/span><\/p>\n

I ordered minestrone.<\/span>
\nOur guide was going to tell the restaurant that it needed to employ the services of an expert translator (his girlfriend) to work on its menu, but we Americans all cried him down, as someone who wanted to ruin one of the simple pleasures of life.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Serving as a world language has its disadvantages. The English translations of Spanish menu items in Buenos Aires were interesting, but in Patagonia the menus were challenging. At a caf\u00e9 in a national park, we were presented with the following choices. Entradas Minestrone Soup of Gourd Caesar Salad: mix of vegetables, cheese chicken, grudges, cream […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-argentina","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}