Roddy Doyle’s niggers of Europe explained
Don’t claim national origins for yourselves without very carefully considering the possible consequences.
Category: Languages
The universality of bu/bo/boo
The strange shrieks of theatrical monsters often don’t require translation.
The naming of El Picazo
Mr Muñoz Soliva postulates the participation of some peculiarly phurtive Phoenicians.
Viaje a México
Our itinerary, and that of Polo Polo on his Viaje a España.
Spidy Wasch
A bit of free association, or rambling, as it is more widely known.
Spanish mis-translation of Paolo Giordano The solitude of prime numbers
But where does the buck stop?
Spain, a nation of whores, soldiers and fools?
Spanish entries from the 1811 Dictionary of the vulgar tongue, with some fanciful etymological speculation and a mercifully brief bout of bar-room anthropology.
The war on arsematrons
After years of shilly-shallying, will France finally stand up to American fartpower?
Free tapas map of Andalusia
Assuming RW’s liver survives the test.
A league and a turd/Legua y mierda
Minsheu’s Pleasant and Delightfull Dialogues: where did he get all that horseshit?