By Randy Paul of Beautiful Horizons
Seen on the New York City Subway among several Bud Light ads allegedly in Spanish, one with the following text:
Tan bueno como encontrar un parking en frente al building
Good God. I have plenty of Latino friends who, when I tell them aboutthis nonsense, they don't know whether to roll their eyes, laugh, pukeor all three. I've informally polled a Colombian, Chilean, Argentinean,Dominican, Cuban, Ecuadorian and Puerto Rican, none of whom said thatthey have heard people butcher their language quite like that. Yoursubway advertisements are now as good as your beer.
Psst, Anheuser-Busch: the italicized words are not Spanish. I believethe words you're looking for are estacionamiento and edificio,respectively, if you're trying to say "As nice as finding a parkingplace in front of the building."
I'm not the only one who thinks they're idiotic.
