¡ Si. Voy a Home Depot para aprender español!
. What clothing stores are for women, hardware and lumber stores are for me. My idea of shopping heaven is a couple of hours leisurely strolling in Home Depot and looking over things besides what I came in to buy. In addition I actually enjoy looking up at the bilingual aisle signs in Home Depot. The vocabulary taught in schools is stingy about technical terms. (I am self-taught in Spanish and find language books to be just as anti-nerdy.) So I am delighted to learn that hardware is ferretería, doors and windows are puertos y ventanos, and other departments roll musically off the tongue: plomeriá y baños, línea blanca y cosinas, iluminación y electricos, and the loveliest in both form and meaning: jardinería.
. I know this is inconsistent, but I often grumble when I see one of those yellow foldup signs in front of the entrance to a men's room here in Maine. Not because of the inconvenience, but because the bilingual sign repeats the message in Spanish, not very sensible in this region. French is the third most-spoken language in the United States. Here in the Northeast it is so prevalent as a second language that we are considered to be part of that mysterious land "Francophonie." |  |
My mischievous sense of humor exacts a fun revenge:
Watch out. ¡Piso Mojado!Posts the guy who does this chore.
Don't slip inside, amigo
Take care, do not ignore!
I know your need is urgent
You really have to go,
But I used mucho detergent
You might slip upon the floor!
Because I know no Spanish
I'll guess, here at the door:
Mojado must mean Banish:
Don't piso on the floor!
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