Day: January 27, 2010

Time to be seasick?

Spain’s National Research Council has an intriguing tag on the page advertising the Botanical Garden: It’s time for research, it’s time to life … It is time CSIC Fucked translation is an art practised all over Spain, not just in Catalonia and Andalusia.

Catalan language policy: Marxist, Stalinist, Francoist or fascist?

The precedents for, and some possible implications of, the Catalanisation of Barcelona’s cinemas. Plus some crowd-pleasing video of the Quebec language police in action. (Allez! Allez! Allez! And the hell with the economy!) All in somewhat fevered response to an article by Martin Dahms in the Tages-Anzeiger.