If Merkel complains about how much TV3 costs, ask her about Bavaria
The television arm of Bayerische Rundfunk inflicts roughly the same relative damage on regional GDP as its Catalan cousin.
Category: Languages
Is Gertrude Stein pulling the strings on the Balearics?
José Ramón Bauzá, in government but losing the power of speech.
Vygos Cagados, a jingoistic Dutch print celebrating the Battle of Vigo Bay (1702)
But why, and for whom, would a Dutchman pun on Vigo / figo (fig) when both spelling and pronunciation of the latter were long obsolete in standard Spanish?
How I tried to vote PP and ended up electing a freaking dentist
Blueout in the election of the beards.
Filipinos vs filipinos
Lexical roots of the eurozone crisis
Hot news
Although this fact may not have occurred to American journalists, living in monolingual paradise, it’s hard choosing names in a global market where everything means something bad to someone, somewhere.
Weird word-initial stress: ási
Interesting hints on pronouncing the Urdu q
Think of a bird or a bottle.
Breogán redux
Featuring Sophie Tucker’s “There’s Something Spanish In My Eyes”