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Monday, December 20, 2010

Mitochondria





From Google Translate:
draw a plant cell, and point out its most important organs.

But I have a feeling there is a pun that is lost in translation (vegetal).
Any Spanish speakers out there care to help me out on this one?

Update:
Isabel Gaudreau said, "It's an easy pun, vegetal is slang for quadriplegic. And the cell is in a wheelchair."

Thanks Isabel.

3 comments:

Jim D said...

Disclaimer: I do not speak Spanish.

It sounds to me like there's a pun on a synonym -- plant/vegetable. i.e. A "vegetable cell".

Unknown said...

That's what I thought too. Any Spanish speakers out there care to back this up?

Isabel Gaudreau said...

It's an easy pun, vegetal is slang for quadriplegic. And the cell is in a wheelchair.