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Jan 5
e-Cards in Spanish, Good and Awful

Ack!  Ugh!  I just visited Feliz-Navidad.net and wish I hadn't.  It is a Spanish-language portal for 123greetings.com.  Some things just shouldn't be translated!  Digging down through the selections, which I felt I had to do, for research purposes, you can find (among the many garish cards in English) a number of e-greeting cards in Spanish--poorly written and often poorly translated--reflecting a message so culturally NOT Hispanic in tone or color or sentiment that the effect is rather offensive.  But that's just my opinion.

Can someone lead me to a site with e-cards that is sensitive to hispanic art, history, culture, etc.?  I went to the Hallmark site, hoping to expunge the sour taste of the Feliz-Navidad site from my memory.  It offered little immediate relief but came through in the end.  The home page doesn't offer a Spanish-language option.  Further in, after selecting "Holidays" and then "Cinco de Mayo", I must admit I did find the kind of card I hoped for--artistic, culturally and linguistically correct.  Then I back-tracked to "Mother's Day" and found some nice cards in Spanish that were prepared with concern to the sights and sounds and sentiments of a Latin American remembrance.  Way to go, Hallmark!


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