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Recent Florida poll

by Dragon Jun 12, 2007 3:17PM PDT

A poll taken by the Fla. Governor's office on whether illegal immigration is a serious problem:

21% answered that it is a serious problem

79% answered "no es una problema seriosa".

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No to be difficult but ...

by Bill Osler Jun 12, 2007 9:10PM PDT

I think #2 would have more likely been:

No es un problema serio.

The Spanish word for problem, problema, is masculine even though it ends in an 'a'. I've never seen the word 'seriosa' in Spanish. I'm not fluent enough to be certain it is not a legitimate word. The word I've seen for 'serious' is 'serio'

But yes, I know it was a joke. And the joke might not have worked as well with a grammatical phrase.

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Yep

by Dragon Jun 12, 2007 11:55PM PDT

I tried using Googles language tool, plugging in "serious" and asking it to translate to Spanish.

"Serio" was the answer. Maybe the joke works better if it looks more spanishy.