Competing Amazigh and Arabic etymologies of “beur”
And “beurette,” of course, this being the Year of Zahia Dehar, who sounds like she may escape from being shagged up the bum by Pierre Woodman.
Tag: french language
Born, not made
The Spanish, making progress with a backlog of untranslated English snowclones?
Jingoistic poem celebrating the Battle of Vigo Bay (1702)
Half roasted Frenchmen, some o’er Gratings Broil’d/Do mix with Spaniards in the Sea parboil’d;
Son of a broker
A Dutch compliment becomes a French insult.
Rhyme vs reason
Restif de la Bretonne goes one step beyond Shakespeare and says that poetry is the language of Gods and beasts, and that reason speaks in prose.
Pan di Spagna?
A Sicilian says it ain’t.
The cycling Cartesian
If you haven’t got a head, you’re going to need some legs.