Sez he: The fact is that the right owns those object+present participle compounds, as surely as it owns values, media bias, the lapel-pin flag, and sentences that begin with “See….” In fact you could trace the whole history of the right’s campaigns against liberals via those compounds — from tree-hugging and NPR-listening back through the…
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…
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…
Here‘s the final piece of a series by Uruguayan proofreader Pilar Chargoñia 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…
Standing first shows up in the CREA corpus in 1976 in its normal Spanish usage (apartamentos de elevado standing, later appearances typically alto standing). I think its application to real estate is a phoney Anglicism–the first couple of pages of usage in English@Google all appear to be by Western Romance dialect speakers–so I’m very slightly…
Go to the council’s website and hit Castellano. (Badalona is one of many nationalist-run councils which, with the connivance of the governing body, are violating the conditions (cultural/language promotion etc) for using .cat.)
‘The miserable Common Agricultural Policy becomes the majestic ratio communis agros colendi, which literally means “common scheme for cultivating the fields”.‘