Tuesday, March 18, 2008
A Spanish Tale
From a colleague: An applicant was going through the line. I told him courteously in my Dominican Spanish; "Senor, ya puede ponerse su correa", which in English means "Sir, you can now put on your belt." The man looked at me awkwardly revealing his discomfort. Apparently, in Mexico, correa means dog leash.
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