So says Alberto Gómez, Fundación del Español Urgente person. He puts it down to better quality control, while the Spanish right–of course–think it’s the result of a loss of identification with the language. (Gómez’ preachy foundation is an EFE-bot. The EFE release contains errors of orthography (“National Association of Hispanic Journalist”) and fact (the US…
I’m really fond of Eulàlia Petit’s Barcelonetes because, unlike the overwhelming majority of distinctly underwhelming blogs here, it provides useful stuff and not house, garden and kitchen chitchat. Take, for example, this drawing of a vendor using simple Roman scales (una romana) in a Montpellier market. Close-ups of others here and here, and here‘s a…
Thanks to Margaret Marks for pointing out Mrs Tilton’s post on Jordi Moya-Laraño’s upcoming spider sex symposium. Widows, and, particularly, black widows, are, of course, the ones to watch, not the harmless tarantulas I take people to see. There’s a spider Kama Sutra over at Pharyngula for those of you with enough legs to make…
Catalan nationalism is not, of course, unique in the region in its attempts to eradicate a language that straddles borders and unites people: Première femme de lettre maghrébine élue à la prestigieuse [sic] Académie française, [Assia Djebbar] n’a eu droit, dans son pays, qu’à un bref communiqué lu à la télévision algérienne. Jusqu’à aujourd’hui, l’académicienne…