Year: 2012

Naming rigths @ Sol Galaxy Note

As in El Mundo: La nueva campaña publicitaria de Metro de Madrid no sólo se limitará a la estación de Sol, ahora rebautizada Sol Galaxy Note (como el móvil de Samsung) en una campaña denominada ‘naming rigths’ (derechos de nombre). This incredibly common misspelling (ca 19.2 million ghits) is not confined to native speakers of…

Plato cheese

The diaspora and its hangers-on don’t often show here, but Studiolum@Poemas del río Wang’s found a cool menu from a vaguely Hispanic-themed bar belonging to the Café-Café chain in Lvov, Ukraine. Given the man’s clever-bastard reputation, Plato cheese is clearly a witty reference to some elite type of head cheese. Sophist is Plato’s fish and…

When did you born? Birth, agency and Whorfian politicology

Wine-buff Víctor de la Serna (via Carlos Ferrero) has nailed Domecq Bodegas for an amusing slip on the otherwise impeccable site, “When did you born?” I haven’t really looked for literary or scientific evidence, and I’m pretty ignorant of non-me dialectal forms, but I’d hazard that this form is actually quite common among some groups…

Question about diachronicity, dreams and nationalist historians

OK, in this dream I’m talking to a pigeon farmer about how folks are more prepared to condone pinioning some species than others, and then a flock starts smothering my face and I wake up with a bit of sheet over my head. So brain 1) meets object in the here-and-now, 2) makes false interpretation,…

Needed, a ballad for the Olli Rehn empire

Featuring Umberto Eco on Orgasmus, an obscure Restoration Scottish nationalist on London, Mexico’s revolutionary and narco-corridos, and Italian Renaissance bandit- and Camorra-praise poetry, all for the benefit of the European Union’s commissar for provincial affairs.

Michele Pezza aka Fra Diavolo leading Neapolitans against Frankish imperialists.