Why do amateur chicks prefer Swedish tits?

If you google “Swedish tits” in Spanish, the second listing is for “FAMOUS CHICKS WITH BIG SWEDISH TITS”. A search for “with Swedish tits” turns up nothing, but “with * Swedish tits” uncovers “amateur chicks with good Swedish tits”, clearly outnumbering other contenders (eg “with * Russian tits”). So why on the Spanish-language WWW do…

Decline in Arabic

Funny from a piece by Lamya Tawfik illustrating Egyptian anti-Western paranoia: “Responding to claims that the language used by the youth plays a role in the distortion and erosion of the Arabic language, Nabeel Farouq, a famous Egyptian author of adventure stories for youth, said that this fear is baseless because, to begin with, Arabic…

What we really need: more language police

Here‘s the final piece of a series by Uruguayan proofreader Pilar ChargoƱia calling for the creation in Argentina of a new Spanish language academy to reflect River Plate variants and promote a standardised language. This strikes me as completely deranged. Rioplatense Spanish, including characteristic traits such as voseo, already dominates institutional and commercial use in…