Ad: "_Be happy, Be libros_. La felicidad est=?GB2312?Q?=A8=A2n_?=en los libros"

[Neal Whitman]

One time my brother and I saw a Spanish-language poster for the movie "The Three Amigos". It translated it as "Los Tres Amigos". My brother asked, "Hey, shouldn't that be 'Los Tres Friends'?"

Neal

On Mar 25, 2013, at 3:31 AM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM> wrote:

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> WTF do Spanish-spealers make of this? The same thing that we
> English-speakers make of "Live _mas_!," I reckin. (What would a *dead*
> _mas_, I wonder?)
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