{"id":11222,"date":"2020-09-09T22:09:51","date_gmt":"2020-09-10T04:09:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/richyrocks.com\/coolenglish\/?p=11222"},"modified":"2021-10-13T00:47:56","modified_gmt":"2021-10-13T06:47:56","slug":"english-practice-from-visitmexico-coms-embarrassing-snafu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/richyrocks.com\/coolenglish\/english-practice-from-visitmexico-coms-embarrassing-snafu\/","title":{"rendered":"visitmexico.com’s embarrassing snafu"},"content":{"rendered":"

mexicans are still laughing about an embarrassing snafu<\/em><\/strong> (fail) that mexico’s tourism department suffered last month on their visitmexico<\/strong> website. the <\/a>associated press<\/a><\/strong> reported<\/a><\/p>\n

it has been a bad week for mexican tourism promotion, and it got worse<\/em> friday when the english language version of the country\u2019s tourism website appeared with hilarious<\/em> mis-translations.<\/h4>\n

hilarious<\/a><\/em><\/strong> is very funny<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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3 of the hilarious visitmexico.com translations (intriper.com)<\/em><\/h5>\n

get worse<\/em><\/strong> is an example of get + adjective<\/a><\/strong> and indicates a transition<\/em>, a change<\/em>; from bad to worse<\/em> in this case. things got bad<\/em> for mexico tourism the day before when they posted videos promoting night clubs in acapulco. the perception was that the tourism department wasn’t taking the pandemic seriously\u00a0🤷🏽‍♀️<\/p>\n

fun tesol vids <\/a>\":)\"<\/a> richyrocks english on youtube<\/a><\/h4>\n

it’s common to hear get worse<\/em> in song lyrics, including at the beginning of the second verse of this rock classic by guns n roses<\/a><\/strong>. listen at 1:55 for…<\/p>\n

welcome to the jungle it gets worse<\/em> here every day<\/h4>\n