Insuring Amsterdam
Stiltsville in various Germans. With a filthy joke, and several less filthy ones.
Tag: german language
Goethe, responsible for Victorian pteridomania?
The disastrous horticultural consequences of fucked literary translation.
Nick Clegg’s Spanish
Includes several therapeutic tongue-twisters.
Spanish, most popular elective extra-curricular language in English higher education
Now ahead of French, while German is being overtaken by Chinese.
Binding referendum on the future of Catalonia, hosted by Kalebeul
In response to confusion in the markets re Spain’s constitutional arrangements and the size and distribution of its public debt, kaleBirthday has, remarkably, gained the consent of the Catalan, Spanish and EU administrations to conduct a binding poll on the future of the troubled region. Vote now or forever hold your peace.
The Lutheran conspiracy against Spain
With the Anglo-Saxon plot in tatters and Jewish machinations a non-starter, some strategic paranoia for Mr Zapatero. (Like: Is Mendelssohn’s Elijah a secret weapon of German subversion?)
Catalan language policy: Marxist, Stalinist, Francoist or fascist?
The precedents for, and some possible implications of, the Catalanisation of Barcelona’s cinemas. Plus some crowd-pleasing video of the Quebec language police in action. (Allez! Allez! Allez! And the hell with the economy!) All in somewhat fevered response to an article by Martin Dahms in the Tages-Anzeiger.
More Nordic body culture in Barcelona
There’s nothing your neighbourhood phenotype dream team can’t fix.
Big window, little world
Sharing with the collective.
Son of a broker
A Dutch compliment becomes a French insult.