Monday, February 25, 2008

Does anyone else think this is funny?

So I go to Walgreens to pick up the Mangine family's eight (or maybe ninth?) prescription of the month. Yes, literally. We've had a sick month. But I digress...

So the pharmacy bag that Nia's prescription is in has these following words on it:

We can print your prescription label instructions in many languages, including:
Arabic
Chinese
English
French
German
Italian
Japanese
Korean
Portuguese
Polish
Russian
Spanish
Tagalog
Vietnamese
Ask at the pharmacy counter today.

Okay. If you don't read English (therefore necessitating a foreign-language label) how are you going to read the bag that tells you about this program?

I must be missing something.

And at the risk of sounding VERY ignorant, what the heck is Tagalog? I have never even heard of that language. You bet your biscuits I will be googling that one...

Edited to Add: Tagalog is the language spoken in the Philippines. Who knew? (well, probably Filipino people know... and probably lots of other people did to... public school didn't really serve me too well apparently.)