Fierro favoured slightly over hierro/yerro after vowel in early modern Spanish?
It sounds better.
Category: Languages
An old Dutch A&E joke
And the abbot who thinks little of his neighbour the emperor’s worldly ambitions.
Basque prefers shitting blood to speaking Spanish
Better hurry up with that Darwin Award.
“Let’s roll!” in Spanish
“¡Dale al asno!” ruled out in the first round.
![No woman, still die: a travesty of Henry Heath's <a href='http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/search_the_collection_database/search_object_details.aspx?objectid=1661443&partid=1&searchText=ahithophel+in+the+dumps&fromADBC=ad&toADBC=ad&titleSubject=on&physicalAttribute=on&numpages=10&images=on&orig=%2fresearch%2fsearch_the_collection_database.aspx¤tPage=1'>Ahithophel [Wellington] in the dumps</a>.](https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-4_GUKxjp4-Q/TnMWud5xHfI/AAAAAAAAw6E/Gpm83jNs_cw/s1000/AN00684413_001_l.jpg "No woman, still die: a travesty of Henry Heath's <a href='http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/search_the_collection_database/search_object_details.aspx?objectid=1661443&partid=1&searchText=ahithophel+in+the+dumps&fromADBC=ad&toADBC=ad&titleSubject=on&physicalAttribute=on&numpages=10&images=on&orig=%2fresearch%2fsearch_the_collection_database.aspx¤tPage=1'>Ahithophel [Wellington] in the dumps</a>.")
Spanish comprehension exercise
Ben Jonson and the ground charlatans
Like today’s miserable vendors of pirated CDs, early modern Venetian ambulants are trading on someone else’s stolen content, but at least they’ve had to learn it by heart.
Does historical reenactment extend to speech?
Early modern editing for the creative anachronism market: judicious modernisation, sympathetically documented transcription, or Talk Like A Pirate?
In defence of Catalan language immersion
It’s a fine example of practical neo-feudalism, and screw the serfs.
Presenting authorial & editorial notes in a Kindle edition of a 16th century bilingual text
Hints gratefully received…
Spanish district administration, so many portions of shit
El País speaks its mind.
