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Mexico: Spanish Language, English Acronyms

Written byDavid Sasaki
Posted 16 November 2006 20:12 GMT

Hipocratico laments the fact that most Spanish-speaking internet users have adopted English language acronyms: “some very popular bloggers use ‘WTF’ to say ‘que onde con esto,’ or ‘what's up with this.’

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