Top 10 Catalan cities

An example of the complete bollocks with which travel sites think you’ll be satisfied is to be found on Travelcreek, which tells us that: Gerona is the second largest city in the province of Catalunya after Barcelona and is dissected by the Onyar river. Leaving aside the fact that Catalonia isn’t a province, Girona hasn’t…

German language reforms fail

Satirical mag Titanic has gone one better than publishers Springer & Spiegel, who yesterday deserted the state language reforms of the mid-90s: TITANICK kehrt zurück zur ganz, ganz alten RechtschreybungSie habent eyn Eynsehen: Der Spiegel-Verlag und Springer kehren zurück zur alten Rechtschreybung. Doch TITANICK gehet noch eyn Schrittleyn weyter und schreybet ab dem heutiglichen Tage…