September 14, 2009

Alfabeto
FOUND by Lauren Orto in Muncie, IN
My husband, brother-in-law and I found this while we were leaving Johnny Carino's. It was by far the best thing about our dining experience. I can't decide which drawing is my favorite. It's a 3-way tie between the rich guy, the soccer ball and the gardener.
Lauren in Muncie
Another find for me! There's a whole tablet of this stuff.
+ September 14, 2009 12:32 AM +
orinoco womble in wimbledon burrow
It never fails to amaze me the misspellings you can get in what is actually a phonetic language. I live in Spain and even shop signs are guilty of some really creative (and unintentional) spellings.
There are several here, but I think the writer is a kid anyway.

Regional differences: I had no idea "cholo" meant "rich." "Ijada" now, has me wondering. Blackboard, maybe? "Quijada" means "cheekbone," but somehow I don't think that fits. ;)My dentist's name is Dr. Quijada, which I find very apropos.
+ September 14, 2009 01:43 AM +
Farmer in The Dell
ranberry, cranberry grape, cranberry raisin, cranberry almond, cranberry kiwi, cranberr
+ September 14, 2009 04:43 AM +
Ian in Edinburgh
Seeing this, who wouldn't want to be a gardener?
+ September 14, 2009 04:50 AM +
Caitlin in Australia
haha, i love the gardener stick man. :)
+ September 14, 2009 05:19 AM +
Librarian in the woodwork

Why isn't there a Spanish word for "Pictures" at the top of the page along with an illustration thereof?
+ September 14, 2009 06:37 AM +
Sammy Davis Junior Jr
My house looks exactly like this cabin, except for the bowl of pudding on the roof.
+ September 14, 2009 07:37 AM +
fooch
Love the rich guy. Is that a smug smile, or a grimace?
+ September 14, 2009 07:50 AM +
Phoebe Muse
Dude your pudding looks like mashed potatoes...you must have learned from same cook book as me!
+ September 14, 2009 08:01 AM +
Feeling in coherent
What does it say between ice cream and gardener? Vada? Or is that some sort of "u" with and umlaut??

And the rich guy is smug. I'm betting it's drug money.
+ September 14, 2009 08:24 AM +
wonder in g where this kid is learning Spanish
I think it says "jada" which should be jardin for garden.(note the arrow from the gardener to the rectangle.) Cholo does not mean rich, it's a (usually derogatory) term for someone of mixed race.
+ September 14, 2009 08:31 AM +
Librarian in the woodwork

I believe that the happy gardener works for the Environmental Protection Agency and is glad that he is able to remediate the kerosene pollution at the farm in the picture at the bottom.
+ September 14, 2009 10:15 AM +
Lauren in Wichita, KS
I wish I had a giant bowl of pudding on my roof.
Actually, that could present quite a few problems. Plus I would never even eat the pudding as this would be unsanitary.
Sigh, no pudding for me.
+ September 14, 2009 11:40 AM +
Hiplainsdrifter in South Portland, Maine

Innuendo = Suppository

Iceaboxa = Refrigerator
+ September 14, 2009 12:03 PM +
Brenda in Madrid
I love funny translations. Tengo hungry so I'm going to see what's in the iceaboxa.
+ September 14, 2009 01:22 PM +
Miss Scarlet in in the Study with a Revolver
I love the emfermera, with her lank hair, ironing board body, and outdated nurse's cap. Where in Mexico are the nurses nude?
+ September 14, 2009 01:39 PM +
Librarian in the woodwork

Isn't anyone going to try to write us a story using all these vocabulary words? Hiplainsdrifter, perhaps??

Extra points for using them in order.
+ September 14, 2009 02:15 PM +
Carl in South Africa
Once apon a time there was a man who looked at a bowl of alphabet soup and stole the idea.
He hurried off to go make ALPHABET PUDDING.
While he was still busy there was a knock on his CABIN's door, a RICH man of mixed race told him that he had bought the land on which the cabin was and informed him that he had a DAY to get out.Feeling terrible the man went to hospital,where a NURSE told him to challenge the rich man to a SOCCER game for the land.When they got to the field it was overgrown with SUNFLOWERS,so feeling hot the rich man bought them ICE CREAM wihle he hired a GARDNER to clear up the field.On the trip back to the field the man was hit by a KEROSENE tank that broke loose from a nearby house.
This is how alphabet pudding was never invented. :)
+ September 14, 2009 03:18 PM +
Terrie-Is-So-Very in totally-unique-ville
Where I grew up, a cholo is some ese vato loco puto that hangs out on the street, Homes.
+ September 14, 2009 03:19 PM +
Hiplainsdrifter in South Portland, Maine
"Pictures" pracis he
ALPHABET
all neye long eeting he
PUDDING
in he
CABIN.
He weesh to be
RICH,
and haga
NURSE
an watch the
SOCCER
on TeeWee while eeting
SUNFLOWER ICE CREAM.
Jada
weel hag to wait though. He time as a
GARDENER
of
COCOA
plants wheel soon pays off when he get his KEROSENE
and start a cocaine processeen opperatshun.
He eengleesh come in hanny at that time.

Pictures.. he no the dummy.


+ September 14, 2009 03:33 PM +
Hiplainsdrifter in South Portland, Maine
oops messed that last bit of nonsense up...
+ September 14, 2009 03:34 PM +
ballsy
Wow, look what I found when I googled ijada:

http://www.ballcup.com/home.html
+ September 14, 2009 05:11 PM +
Tricks

OLA EMFERMERA!
+ September 14, 2009 06:48 PM +
Librarian in the woodwork

A ribbon for Carl from South Africa!!
+ September 14, 2009 07:16 PM +
Night in gale
How can you have any budin if you don't eat your carne?
+ September 14, 2009 07:37 PM +
Random in formation
Aigh, it's killing me!!! What does ijada mean?! Of all the pictures the kid could have drawn, it's a rectangle with an arrow. Where is the justice?
+ September 15, 2009 06:14 AM +
Random in formation
Apparently "ijada" means "flank" or "side." I find this translation suspicious because the word "ijar" apparently also works in somehow.

http://www.spanishdict.com/translate/ijada
+ September 15, 2009 06:17 AM +
Me in somewhere
finally a find where I can actually find misspelled words before anyone!!!
pudin with P not with B
cabaña without the I

cholo doesnt mean rich! HAHAHAHA I'd love to see that one!! cholo is almost offensive and it's used to refer people with certain "style" (google cholo and see the images please)

jardinero not jardinaro

queroseno not kerosen

and finally ijada is the space between the ribs and the hips so I'll guess that this kid tried to translate space...or something like that

:)
+ September 15, 2009 06:55 PM +
not tril in gual
dang it, Me in somewhere. You busted my bubble, the one in which I was enjoying a random found list that could actually teach me something. course, I should thank you for preventing me from sounding illiterate in (yet)another language
+ September 15, 2009 11:11 PM +
what fun would it be if nothing was lost in translation?
My favorite snip from that link that Ballsy provided:

..."I was told that it was a rabbit goulash. I couldn’t sleep that very night because I became incredibly aroused and felt a real ``charge of positive energy`` that I had to use somehow. I had never experienced anything like that before.

The next day, after the wild night, I found out from a friend that the dish we ate was testicle goulash."
+ September 16, 2009 11:47 AM +
andrea joseph in derbyshire
Oh, just found your site. It's the best.

I've got a million of these little lists of to-do-drawings. In my pocket! So this one is particularly special to me. But, actually everything I've seen, so far, is special. And, I'm gonna look some more. FABULOUS IDEA.
+ September 16, 2009 11:56 AM +
Clover in the Lawn
Hello Lauren in Muncie! Congrats on having your excellent find posted!
+ September 27, 2009 11:31 AM +
stay classy, Hiplainsdrifter in where the HUMANS are
Way to be racist.
+ September 27, 2009 08:37 PM +

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