Languages, mankind, empires, the family – Leeds's Singing Organ-Grinder

“Doesn”t time fly”

Hypercorrection over at the excellent El Café de Ocata? Don’t think I’ve seen that one before. (Via the echo at IRQ.)

“Chaste, pious, prudent”: to which British king does the poem below the break refer?

Part of the series Crazy Shit AMA Recites.

English: deMOcracy, Spanish: demoCRAcia, German: demokraTIE. Would multilingual discussion and implementation of such a potentially useful concept be facilitated by the creation by Brussels of a well-remunerated Accent Unification Committee, or is diversity key? It’s downright aucword to think that others may think you’re dumb just because you stress such a basic term wrongly in…

Did the Hapsburgs (or whoever) really force Jews to adopt absurd surnames in the late 18th century?

Or is it a proto-Nazi myth?

Flamenco: (manifestación cultural de la) escoria de un país bajo?

Lectura estival, Baroja La Feria de los Discretos, en el cual Quintín Roelas se encuentra secuestrado por error por una banda de gitanos en la Córdoba de 1868: – Yo le diré a usted quién soy, y si después de saberlo no le parece mal, seremos amigos. – Y antes también. – No, antes no.…