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No Comment Necessary: Argentina’s President Sends a ‘Joke’ From China

Feb 06 , 2015

While on a state visit to China, Argentinian president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner tweeted:

“More than 1000 attendees at the event…are they all from “La Campola” and have come just for the lice and petloleum?”

In the tweet, Kirchner appears to be joking that the 1000 attendees at a meeting she attended had only come for “rice and petroleum.” Except instead of “arroz y petróleo,” which is how those words are normally spelled in Spanish, she wrote “aloz y petlóleo” — “lice and petloleum” — in a clumsy attempt to imitate a Chinese accent.

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