But if Juncker doesn’t resign this week I reckon 2020 will be pushing it. Luxembourg Syndrome also used to amuse in the Channel Islands: population wakes up, discovers that every cousinfucking potatodigger / goatherd is a financial genius! I am covered, come what may: the Xmas beer is bubbling away.
The Instituto Cervantes runs courses explaining to Spanish speakers how to recycle themselves as teachers in the Anglosphere: “Lo más importante es no lanzarse a la aventura de la docencia sin más, porque no basta con ser nativo”, apunta Gemma Belmonte, profesora de español en el Cervantes londinense. Además de aprender a planificar una clase,…
Conoci una gitana muy simpatica en mi tienda, a pesar de que nunca las he tragado, congeniamos. Le hice un descuento y se ofreció a leer mis manos gratis. Me dijo que me habian hecho un mal. (Cosa que me han dicho un par de veces. Sé quien fue y sus motivos, se que era…
I got a tremendous kick out of singing duets over CU-SeeMe with some mad Icelandic woman in 1994, but it had all been done before, at the beginning of the telephone age: ten musicians performing, in 1892, in four different towns (Dudley, Wolverhampton, Stafford and Hanley) In other words the telephone not only allowed you…
Should definitely be an apostrophe, dudes: I’m pretty sure I’ve actually seen this before, in both Hispano- and Anglophone environments. You might think that it suggests that they are also pretty unlettered in their mother tongue, but establishing that would require thorough excavation. Nurse, my bluntest chisel! (H/t: Thingamajig) Update: Jeremy suggests that some people…
