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Saturday, February 25, 2012

Spanish for Coca-cola is.

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Every Friday, a group of us leaves work for our ritual lunch at the local Mexican restaurant. We've been going there often enough that the wait staff knows us very well. Sometimes we try to order in Spanish, sometimes we order in English, and sometimes the waiter translates it either way.

As we sat around the lunch table yesterday giving our drink orders, one of my friends said, "Aqua." The waiter responded with, "Water." My next friend said, "Sweet tea." The waiter answered with, "Té dulce'." My third friend said, "Coca-Cola." The waiter said, "Pepsi." I said, "Do you see how he translated that? I did not know that Pepsi was Spanish for Coca-Cola."

You learn something new everyday.

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