Month: June 2014
Freaking idiots, non?
It’s all relative
The state’s your friend
As long as you work for it.
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Last year was the first consecutive year since records began.
CG is celebrating its uprising against the established order on the anniversary of Franco’s. Because what we absolutely need is more flags, not less? Although less might mean that your average neighbourhood nazi would be less keen to have his photo taken with you.
My thought is that George Galloway supported the ayatollahs but balanced that in this splendid rant, while I guess in Brian Souter’s vision the good/bad labelling is reversed on the scales. For the record, Philip of Bourbon spoke French, Charles of Habsburg spoke German, both had multilingual armies, and – though hispanophile – neither patronised…
“Heresy is the side that loses.” — J.V. Fleming @ Greg Ross. Totally with Mentalidade Logica: “Torres should go to Fuenlabrada and open a pizza restaurant called El niño.” The restraint of Spanish nationalists in the face of Catalan nationalist provocation post-defeat has been quite impressive. I recall an incident years ago in a village…
The London Magazine, 1734: Verses occasioned by Mr. Budgel’s modest Proposal, in the Daily Post-Boy of Aug. 31. to give the Publick a new and accurate Translation of a late celebrated French Treatise, on the Causes of the Grandeur and Declension of the Romans, and which has been already translated. Dulness, good goddess, chanc’d to…
The Vocabulaire européen des philosophies has now been versioned in English as Dictionary of untranslatables and Spanish as Diccionario de intraducibles. Here Mark Liberman cites Adam Gopnik, who seems to think the book is self-refuting Sapir-Whorfism, and here Jacques Lezra, coordinator of the English-language version, seems to be indulging the following incoherence: linguistic relativism is…
“Hundreds of police officers, backed by armored vehicles, stormed a lawless southern village on Monday after people suspected of growing marijuana fired rocket-propelled grenades, mortars and machine guns at officers during a drug raid. The police said no one was hurt in the clash in and around Lazarat.” Everyone except the police seems to have…
Between thieves, who profit from mistranslation, and fools, who know no better (and no profit), there lurks an intriguing class: lunatics, whose often considerable mind is whisked off to unexpected places by absurd fancies as to the nature of their task. The bigot Barnaby Rich writes in The Irish Hubbub (1617): And as the irish…
“The Governor of Bank of England, says interest rates would go up sooner if economy continued to accelerate in Mansion House speech.” “It’s pure commanismo!” roared the glowering inferno.
Great tunes, great doggerel, small simians