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  • Collection: N. Roxboro St., Durham, NC

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"La movida" is colloquial Spanish meaning "scene", or an area of activity. An understanding of this quality of the nightclub is unavailable to non-Spanish speakers.

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This business presumably sells general goods and tacos in addition to meats, but only "meat market" is translated into English.

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This is a welcome sign for two congregations which share a church building. One offers services in English, while the other offers services in Spanish.

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This common automotive parts and accessories store located beside "Tenochtitlan Auto Care" boasts bilingual signs. The English text is prominently displayed in bold, alternating yellow and red fonts, while the Spanish text is situated underneath in a…

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Were it not for the illustration indicating that Peluqueria Jocelyn's offers haircuts, non-Spanish speakers would be largely excluded from interacting with this sign. The presence of English is subtle, found only as a possessive clitic in…

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This car repair shop is located in the vicinity of several auto parts stores. The window decals feature duplicating English and Spanish lists of goods/services offered. The only exception is "hojalatería", which is largely a Mexican colloquialism for…

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The video store is located directly adjacent to the hair salon which was also solely in spanish. As can be seen the video store also only uses spanish in their advertisements.

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The pawn shop includes descriptions of their services in spanish primarily with english off to the other side not facing the road.

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Unlike other stores seen this hair salon has everything in Spanish. This could be due to their market only being spanish speakers.
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