Michelle Malkin posts pictures of the demonstrators outside the Summitt of the Americas down in Argentina. The picture that caught my eye was the last one, because it has a bilingual pun: ¿quien nos USA?
USA is, of course, the abbreviation for United States of America — but that’s in English. The common abbreviation for USA in Spanish is EEUU, following the Spanish convention for plural abbreviations and standing for los Estados Unidos. The sign translates as Who uses us?, probably with derogatory connotations that I don’t catch, since I’m a non-native Spanish-speaker. The embedded pun, of course, provides the answer to the question.
Save the exploited bilingually-literate masses! Overthrow Bushitler! Down with free trade! Repeal economics! Is that really cool Che flag montage for sale?
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