This is apparently an Andalusian trait that turns up with Andalusians in the Americas. Previously is was regarded as demonstrating stupidity and a lack of education, but we’re all stupid and uneducated now.
I’ll publish some photos soon of a virtually unknown mediaeval mural of an infernal animal pageant, during which I’ll be sticking my head again into après moi, le déluge. These guys seem to waste even more time on the net than I do. I hope they’re getting paid for it.
In connection with the La horda business, I’m just reading around a bit. One think I’m interested in is the migration of /r/ in some Spanish speech, so that for example pobre > probe. I’d like to know why it happens (is it along the lines of the al-oud > lute shift, or is it…
Strange historical trivia: the codename for Hitler’s programme to help Franco in the war on Spanish Bolshevism (or whatever), Feuerzauber, was used again for the Mogadishu hijack rescue which formed part of the Federal Republic’s war on the Red Army Fraction‘s leftist terror.
Here‘s an unusual combination of nationalist hyper-paranoia with the “everything was better under Franco” meme. The programme had already been shunted back to the middle of the night because no one was listening to it, so I guess Salas got out while the going was good.
On the bus this afternoon I had some French girls in front, as it unfortunately were not, and an old Andalusian couple (I think they were from Córdoba) behind. At a certain moment someone in both groups said they were looking for something, the French using chercher and the Andalusians using buscar, or rather bujcar,…
Whisking wife and whim, I notice that Karim has discovered the oldest and most disgraceful marketing trick in the book. Interestingly, one of his ads is for Godloves-you.com. I don’t think I want God to love me if he can’t afford two hyphens.
Montse Tura has spoken of an “‘adaptation’ in the interpretation” of the hoary old sectarian anthem, El Cant dels Segadors (The Reapers’ Song), on the regional “let’s hate Spain” day, September 11. kalebeul has learnt that this will not consist, as had been widely rumoured, in the correction of historical errors in the text. Instead,…