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Barcelona Chronicle

The mini-site called Barcelona Chronicle - which someone presumably gets paid to produce - is an example of just how bad non-native translation can get. If you were to generate the page automatically then you’d probably have a similar percentage of incorrect words but the spelling would be better.

The Peruvians

There was a sad report on the Beeb last week about the Woodwards from Guernsey who were robbed by a gang on the A7 near Tarragona after having a tyre shot out:
The incident is the third of its type in the area in the last month. Spanish authorities believe the shooting of car tyres is [...]

Don’t waste money teaching tourists Spanish

The Observer informs us that

Gone with the wind

“My Lord, I had forgott the Fart.”

Over at Crónica Verde, about the ongoing destruction by the Andalusian PSOE of the Doñana National Park. This is quite different from the abuse of natural space during the dictatorship because (all together now!) Franco was of the right, while Chaves is of the left, and the people’s friend to boot.

Other old media may be bolder liars, but you can always rely on ABC for the grossest cheese, as in this drooling retrowank re Felipe González’s new bit. How can you write a thing like that, even if it is a double entendre? Or am I just too much of a curious puritan?

I thought ETA’s man on the run had lost it when he went AWOL from a Subject Nation of an Evil Empire with generally excellent weather to a Subject Nation of an Evil Empire where it never bloody stops raining, just in time for winter. But then it started snowing across northern Spain, and even Barcelona had a hail storm.

On Facebook, Trevor is an uncle! / Trevor ya es tío!


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