Excitada...... bad usage in this book
This book just used excitada to describe how some people were whispering excitedly. So I went to Amazon to read some reviews of it and many say it is full of bad translations and is a badly translated book. (Harry Potter). In my mind excitada means "sexually excited" like "worked up, and aroused" and to hear some people discussing something in a way that was "excitada" strikes me a sexual connotation. This book wanted to use it as excited which I think of as emocionada. What do you think? I remember an argument where a girl wanted to say she was excited to see her son, and used excitada and everyone said no to her as saying it was too sexual sounding.
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Jeezzle, you are absolutely right about excitado/a. The word has leaked into Spanish as synonym for emocionado/a. The same happens with having sex as ´tener sexo. instead of ´tener relaciones sexuales´.
However, excitar as verb can be used as causing an emotion or feeling. Que ella diga que está excitada excita mi fantasía.
Also, to make nervous: La niña se excita con las visitas.
Also, to cause anger, or joy. Juan se excita con la falta de puntualidad de sus empleados. 
It´s the adjective what has this disturbing sexual connotation. (maybe becasue it´s close to a copulative verb 
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(All examples where taken or modified form D R A E )
And yes, some of Harry Potter´s versions are very poorly translated, although I could not read more than 10 pages.
All I know is that I am so glad I read a forum post about the same topic before I sent an email to my boyfriend earlier this year. I wanted to tell him I was excited to see him. Thank the SpanishDict gods for saving me from telling him that I was REALLY "excited" to see him. 
