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September 05, 2007
Department of Redundancies Department
I was at a bar the other night, as evinced by that timestamp on my picture. I needed an ATM, as I often do, and I had to laugh at the screen when it asked me to select my language.
Why would it say "English/Ingles" and "Espanol/Spanish"? I feel like, if I want to select English, I'm going to have no need to recognize that the Spanish word for English is "Ingles." As a matter of fact, I'm selecting English because I don't speak Spanish. Likewise, if I'm picking Espanol, it probably doesn't do much for me that the gringos call it Spanish. In all honesty, this is a complete logical conundrum to me. I even have a hard time trying to explain this.
The only thing even remotely like what is going on in my head right now is the my wine glass/your wine glass scene from the Princess Bride:
I clearly can't pick the wine glass in front of me, nor can I clearly pick the wine glass in front of you; I can't see why it says English/Ingles, nor why it says Spanish/Espanol. Oh God, I need a drink...
entry no. 955
Posted by oz115 at September 5, 2007 09:33 PM