In the Madrid airport, we came across this gem of Spanglish. It is on a
luggage cart promoting the VIP lounge you can pay and wait in. Not only
can you buy snaks, but they want you to siéntete, or feel yourself! Or
do they mean seat yourself. Hmmm... (both are accurate translations with
one being a formal, and another an informal request) Maybe they just
mean feel free or feel LIKE yourself, you know, at home or at ease. Who
knows!
Well - I stumbled against this accidentally wondering if anyone else had seen this and gotten a picture... because it's pretty hilarious.
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You're supposed to read it across- so it's "feel yourself VIP for just 25e". The spanish "sientete VIP por solo 25e" would be better translated to "Feel like a VIP for only 25e". So now you know. But 1.5 years later they still haven't figured it out.
Thanks! I thought it was the funniest thing.
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