The Babel fish and the existence of God revisited
Does St Salvator of Horta’s geo-sensitive (Catalan-Basque) miracle cure for a deaf-mute girl open a logical loophole in Godless Adams’ argument?
Tag: catalan language
For sale, the church of St Paul at Montmany
Buy the scene of the miserable fate of the rector in Els sots feréstecs!
Unesco: some mother languages are more equal than others
Which is why Davidson L Hepburn will be welcomed to Barcelona next week.
Who cares about education when you’ve got lotteries, lotteries, lotteries!
La Vanguardia’s editors appear to think that the Supreme Court’s decision to officially re-introduce Spanish into schools is considerably less important for the future of Barcelona than today’s gambling results.
The Arabs say خروÙ, the Catalans say ovella, the Chinese say 羊, but the Spanish apparently say Ovis orientalis aries
Can something be done about the nutters who use scientific rather than common names for Wikipedia articles, or is it time to call the whole thing off?
Modifications to Slovak language law
Josep Huguet, José Millán Astray and the death of intelligence
With a sublime little parody of romantic nationalism from Camilo José Cela, who has his own particular view of this bothersome culture vs civilisation thing.
Call me Trebots
A rather nice example of apocopation and suffixation in Catalan Spanish.
J in Catalan Spanish
Immortalised in the “disastrous cowboy” genre of jokes.
Classifying mussels / muscles
Barcelona trading practices, builder’s crack-fish and the great Pacific birdshit war.