This lovely story of a Castilla y León government tender for a small investigative boat which already included the name of the winner, a company linked to the governing party, reminded me of this beautiful idea re (some of) the Greeks in Martha’s dad’s book: Travel alone was not enough to create ‘science’. These thinkers…
Enquiry from a Spanish emigrant to the UK: I have no assets in Spain. What could the AEDE / the Spanish justice system do to me if I set up an offshore aggregator using IP spoofing to avoid shutout and financed by ads?
One Alfred López, rehashing what he has found in a thousand other places on internet: ¿Sabías que fue un error de traducción lo que convirtió a la manzana en el ‘fruto prohibido’? […] si cogemos la Biblia original (escrita en hebreo) y la repasamos no hay ni un solo momento en el que aparezca nombrada…
Walking home through Hackney this evening, I met a charity shop with a sign that read, “Donation’s welcome.” “Are you sure about that?” I asked the proprietor. “Donation is welcome,” he explained. So “Apple’s £2 / kilo” means “Apple is two pounds a kilo,” there’s obviously a dialect singular / plural thing going on, and…