Tuesday, January 29, 2008

Odd accents in advertising

Weird accents are in the news (here), it seems, and Madison's not escaping the trend …

A new(ish) local Mexican restaurant, La Mestiza, advertises on the radio. They plug very distinctly southern Mexican dishes, like cochinita pibil. But the announcer has a bad Spanish accent.

I don't mean that he's doing a bad job at sounding Mexican, which would be unsettling. No, it's like he's trying very hard to sound like he's from the Iberian Peninsula and failing. Given the name of the place, is this some really odd bit of humor or what?

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

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'new(ish)'..??

According to their website they have 'more than 25 years of experience'.


But yes, unusual name...



...tom...
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Mr. Verb said...

Yeah, the place is newish, but they've been in the biz for a while, I guess.

Anonymous said...

Are you sure it's Iberian? It sounds almost like somebody trying to do Ricardo Montalban and failing. He's from Mexico City.

Anonymous said...

Yes!!! Ricardo Montalban is who it sounds like! Or maybe the "quien es mas macho" skit?