Friday foolishness: foreign words

[Dennis R. Preston]

OK.  Surely y'all haven't forgotten (since I told it here before) that my
wife and I thought USA CONDONES was a sentence with a strangely missing
object (on the back of a bus in San Francisco) until we both realized at
the same moment that the sign was in Spanish.

dInIs

>Just last week I was surprised by our copier paper whose packaging was
>emblazoned "Tout usage" until I saw that it was French.
>
>--- Steve K.


Dennis R. Preston
Department of Linguistics and Languages
Michigan State University
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