I'm not trying to pick on Italy. In fact, I set out this morning to find a bad translation from French, but (gulp) I couldn't! Guess I'll have to dig deeper, or rely on you to find one for me. Meanwhile, there's a sweet little site called Bookings to help you get a hotel in Italy. For the most part, their English text is very good, and they are to be applauded. But for fun, check out the link to the San Marco Palace Hotel in Venice. That page says:
"Any great city scatters its attractions about, but there is always a nucleus where business meat plesure, where local landmarks are appropriated by international tourism."
Mmmm, business meat... And I think I'll go look up the verb "appropriate" to see how they might have thoughtto use it in this context.
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