Below, to your left, is an interesting sign- In English and Spanish it tells you that there is danger and that there is a warning. Unfortunately, it never tells you what the danger is. A rather useless sign, don’t you think? It is only of assistance to us in teaching a couple of Spanish words.
The Spanish word for “danger” is “peligro.” ”Mensaje” is used here as the translation of the word “warning“, although it usually is translated as the word “message“. Remember that, in the last syllable of “mensaje“, the “j” sounds like an “h” and the “e” sounds like a long “a”. In other words, the last syllable sounds like the “hay” that horses eat.
I would love to know what the sign is warning us about- maybe it is to avoid useless signs. For a couple of other useless signs, please see the two to the right of the bilingual sign. I wonder what local government paid for these signs and their installation. Maybe the sign should also say “My boss was fired for ordering me to put up this sign.”
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