My mom found the wonderful world of the Internet a few years ago and instant messaging not soon afterwards. Since then, she's decided that throwing in Spanish words into her sentences is amusing... or something. 'Ola' is her favourite greeting.
My family is bilingual, but not English-Spanish. English-French. None of us know any useful Spanish whatsoever. In fact, my grasp of the Spanish language is so poor that I learn something new every time I watch Dora the Explorer (which is pretty much at least once a day - thank you, Gutsy). I love my mom, but I tire of the two or three Spanish words she uses every single time we communicate online. Thus, I called up my favourite translator, Babelfish, and decided to have some fun (realizing, of course, that these English-to-Spanish translations won't be exact). I left the following in a chat window on her monitor (minus the English translations, of course):
The Maven: ¿Cómo está usted hoy?
How are you today?
The Maven: ¿usted tiene gusto de ir a Ikea?
Would you like to go to Ikea?
The Maven: ¡Tengo un pene grande!
I have a big penis!
The Maven: ¡Eso es emocionante!
Isn't that exciting?
The Maven: ¿Por qué usted no está contestando? ¿Es usted celoso?
Why aren't you answering? Are you jealous?
Not surprisingly, she hasn't replied yet. She's probably gone out to get a translation dictionary. I'm anticipating an interesting phone call...
My family is bilingual, but not English-Spanish. English-French. None of us know any useful Spanish whatsoever. In fact, my grasp of the Spanish language is so poor that I learn something new every time I watch Dora the Explorer (which is pretty much at least once a day - thank you, Gutsy). I love my mom, but I tire of the two or three Spanish words she uses every single time we communicate online. Thus, I called up my favourite translator, Babelfish, and decided to have some fun (realizing, of course, that these English-to-Spanish translations won't be exact). I left the following in a chat window on her monitor (minus the English translations, of course):
The Maven: ¿Cómo está usted hoy?
How are you today?
The Maven: ¿usted tiene gusto de ir a Ikea?
Would you like to go to Ikea?
The Maven: ¡Tengo un pene grande!
I have a big penis!
The Maven: ¡Eso es emocionante!
Isn't that exciting?
The Maven: ¿Por qué usted no está contestando? ¿Es usted celoso?
Why aren't you answering? Are you jealous?
Not surprisingly, she hasn't replied yet. She's probably gone out to get a translation dictionary. I'm anticipating an interesting phone call...