by Eileen | May 30, 2016 | chile, feria, haha, santiago, shopping, Uncategorized
Today I am going to teach you how to parse a sign you see in Spanglish, and by parse, I mean consider how it came to be written how it is written, as opposed to in actual English, based on a previous knowledge of Spanish. Before I begin, I should mention that I...
by Eileen | Feb 15, 2016 | chile, haha, language
The other day, I was walking down the Alameda, which is the main street in Santiago, such as it goes from Plaza Italia, down to join highway 68, which, if you are lucky, takes you to wineries and the coast. The Alameda (real name: Avenida Libertador Bernardo...
by Eileen | Jul 20, 2011 | Uncategorized
They didn’t tell me there would be cows in salt ponds. Oh! What I might have missed. On a recent trip to the coastal (and later, mountain) regions of Región de Maule and BíoBío here in Chile, during which we experienced a kind of dubious signage (photo evidence...
by Eileen | Jun 26, 2011 | Uncategorized
I was recently in San Francisco, visiting the contingent of my family that recently moved there, and while my niece was off at day camp, and before I headed up north to Seattle and points beyond, I ran off on a crazy hodge-podge of public transportation (two longish...
