I told you that was his name. (I fear some people are taking the site seriously, although Big Fat Hairy Dave probably isn’t among them–check his profile.)
Flemish jurisprudence dealing with relationships between potato coops and their tax-mitigating members. One new expression: tegensprekelijk debat, from the French débat contradictoire of réunion contradictoire, meaning basically (and slightly bizarrely to my mind) a meeting or hearing at which several or all parties are present. Due to some aspect of legal history with which I…
There are times when I, too, feel hairachy. (If GenCat.net really “is an example of a radical redefinition of the e-Government portal concept, the first real implementation of Web 2.0 philosophy in Public Administration, fully backed by an explicit policy-driven political strategy focused on a personalized and integrated citizen-centric approach”, how come a centric citizen…
This is the kind of site that drives me freaking crazy. Beat the people at Biografica.org and ElUltimoCafe.com with iron rods, deinstall Flash from their machines, and sentence them to 10 years hard labour doing stuff like, er, saying where and when the exhibition is. Jesus wept.
Bitter tears from the greedy idiots who bought–or thought they’d bought–unregulated investments–stamps–in the expectation of becoming fabulously rich instantly. And a big hand for the media who, with unaccustomed taste and tact, are seeking to profit from any distress by setting up email, as opposed to stamp-on-envelope, help facilities.
Benjamin Zimmer links to a paper by Jane H Hill on Mock Spanish (with references to Jocular Yiddish, and others). I wonder how much of this is applicable to the experience of Welsh immigrants to Renaissance London, with a context that included repressive cultural legislation and the use of caricatural Welsh English (eg devoiced initial…
There are remarkable similarities between the styleguides of the Guardian and of the University of Kent. Check eg “a or an before h?”, “abbreviations”, “accents”.