Stranger in an Even Stranger Land

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Last weekend's Ñ notes a marked tendency to use English in marketing, to give dodgy products more credibility ('How could they lie to us in English?') - as parodied in the current local TV series 'Los Exitosos Pell$', which features various silly advertisements in which the Argentine protagonists try to sell classic infomercial-type products with English names hyper-correctly pronounced or muttered by the presenters. Apparently there's an associated inferiority complex - those who travel in English-named 'Business' class are obviously better than those who travel in Spanish-named 'turista' class.	robert
	12 Jun 2009, 5:27 PM
It also seems there's such a thing as "karting" - which is a kids' peddle-car you can hire in a plaza. The hiring or using isn't called "karting", but rather the kart itself.	robert
	8 May 2011, 3:43 PM