April tweets
Just the usual load of nonsense.
Tag: sheep
Spain, zombie kingdom?
Some terrible discoveries along the Llobregat.
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A market-oriented etymology of Catalonia
From Gothalania to Land of Alan the Goth.
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?
¡Tú imitas tan bien a los animales! ¿No serás … aztor?
A phonological curiosity from coastal Cantabria, with speculation as to the supernatural powers of María Teresa Fernández de la Vega.
The storks of war
A fragment from Italo Calvino’s quasi-17th century folk romance, Il visconte dimezzato/The cloven viscount, uses storks as a portent of battle. Several unconnected 2nd century Greek accounts might appear to do the same, perhaps particularly if one’s a lazy sod and doesn’t read anything but scraps of stuff on Google Books.
Factual or fucktual?
Humiliating linguistic error in PR for Arcadi Espada’s new online newspaper
Outsourcing in the Spanish military
Spanish reluctance to implement American-style planning, and claims of a uniquely Spanish approach to counter-terrorism.