I’ve got me doubts about the whole Ciutadans de Catalunya business, since (a) their potential electorate seems to have given up voting, and (b) they lack the common touch, and that’s putting it kindly. And when, for JC’s sake, is someone going to do something about their website? Even the neo-Nazis have a better one.
A Herrero Mayor, Artesanía y prevaricación del castellano (1931): “En general, los vicios populares más arraigados se traducen en permanentes desviaciones semánticas, falsa correlación del tiempo de los verbos, barbarismos de construcción (italianismos, sobre todo), en el uso impropio de las preposiciones, trueque de accidentes en sustantivos comunes, ecolalia y empleo muy frecuente de voces,…
I often moan about how short Romance languages are on neologisms. Here‘s yet another list of Dutch innovations, of which I think boeddhabuikje -> budabarriguita, for a woman’s beer-belly, would work here with little explanation, although there’d be the usual hassle about compound nouns.
Anthony‘s got an interesting last name, which he has been trying to source. I wonder whether the first hypothesis isn’t correct: a quick Corde search establishes that “Loire” was Spanished as “Luera” in the sixteenth century, and written, unaccented “o” is pronounced “u” in various Hispanic dialects.
RMF@fum i estalzí makes the interesting suggestion, re Pew, that anti-Americanism is stronger in Spain than in prominent Muslim nations, which, we are told, have every reason for hating Americans. Maybe religion isn’t such an important determinant of attitudes after all.
Here’s Samuel Griswold Goodrich on Europe after the Goths in A History of All Nations, from the Earliest Periods to the Present Time (1856): When the wind had dispersed the dust of these countless armies; when the smoke of these blazing cities had ascended to the sky; when the vapors, arising from these murderous battlefields,…
I imagine news of the Slovenian bear that has gone urseshit in greater Germany will do nothing to calm the nerves of Pyreneans re Slovenian bear releases here. Do remind me to send you a copy of that rivers of sheep immigration speech I made a while ago.