13/04/2010 – Leeds's Singing Organ-Grinder

“The stranger wore short trousers and a cloak of the same colour”

Someone kindly sent in an example of bad translation into Spanish which is thus officially off-topic but so interesting and amusing that it deserves inclusion. It’s from La copa de Verlaine, a collection of Madrilenian sketches by fellow-decadent Emilio Carrere, discovered and described at “Bremaneur”‘s excellent Biblioteca fantasma. In “Elegía de un hombre inverosímil” we…

Garzón and the Batman theory of justice

The relative awfulness of, and defining differences between, English and Spanish justice.