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Old 06-24-2010, 06:39 AM   #10
casimendocina
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Originally Posted by Clodfobble View Post
Ah yes, one of the stupidest words in Spanish. Straight directional: derecho. Right directional: derecha.

Seriously, they couldn't come up with a completely different word there so people could give adequate directions, and let the word that sounds very nearly like right mean ocean or somesuch instead?
And just to really confuse things, derecho also means law and derechos means rights.
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