This is apparently an Andalusian trait that turns up with Andalusians in the Americas. Previously is was regarded as demonstrating stupidity and a lack of education, but we’re all stupid and uneducated now.
I’ll publish some photos soon of a virtually unknown mediaeval mural of an infernal animal pageant, during which I’ll be sticking my head again into après moi, le déluge. These guys seem to waste even more time on the net than I do. I hope they’re getting paid for it.
In connection with the La horda business, I’m just reading around a bit. One think I’m interested in is the migration of /r/ in some Spanish speech, so that for example pobre > probe. I’d like to know why it happens (is it along the lines of the al-oud > lute shift, or is it…
There’s a deserved attack here by Franco Alemán on a lousy article by Carmen Montón in La Vanguardia, the paper for people who like to think they know about Foreignistan. She says that “[Theo]Van Gogh had exceeded the most extreme limits of provocation known in civilised countries.” This is not the view of the man…
Strange historical trivia: the codename for Hitler’s programme to help Franco in the war on Spanish Bolshevism (or whatever), Feuerzauber, was used again for the Mogadishu hijack rescue which formed part of the Federal Republic’s war on the Red Army Fraction‘s leftist terror.
Here‘s an unusual combination of nationalist hyper-paranoia with the “everything was better under Franco” meme. The programme had already been shunted back to the middle of the night because no one was listening to it, so I guess Salas got out while the going was good.
Interesting news here that the German state of Rheinland-Pfalz/Rhineland-Palatinate has recognised the Sinti and Roma as a national minority and committed itself to promote and protect their language and culture, particularly in education. Meanwhile, in Spain racial stigmatisation of a type not seen in Britain since the 60s remains acceptable, and not just in the…