Friday, May 05, 2006

SOTP!

On the way home tonight I saw the words SOTP INVASION spray painted on the side of a building. Assuming sotp isn´t some abbreviation or something, that´s gotta be the worst spelling mistake ever. And weird that Spanish graffiti would use the English word "stop." (Invasion is the same in English and Spanish.) But the stop signs here stay STOP, which is maybe where it came from. I keep meaning to ask someone why they aren´t in Spanish. STOP isn´t universal. Bolivian stop signs are in Spanish; they say ALTA. Well, the one Bolivian stop sign that I saw on the news said ALTA, anyway. The Spanish government is quietly freaking out about Bolivia´s nationalizing its gas, so it´s been in the news a lot lately.

1 Comments:

At 4:30 PM, Blogger Sam said...

Gmm, pensé que el señal pone ALTA, pero supongo que no recuerdo correctamente. ¡Gracias!

 

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