Please make more posts! Thank you! 🙂 My first question, how exciting! Rest assured, more entries are coming. I’m glad you enjoy the blog. As…
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Please make more posts! Thank you! 🙂 My first question, how exciting! Rest assured, more entries are coming. I’m glad you enjoy the blog. As…
Cabrearse is a very common way of saying “to get angry”, especially if it’s in a obvious, irated way: Susana se cabreó mucho anoche.Susana got…
When speaking informally, you can refer to your job as your curro: El bus se retrasó y llegué tarde al curro.The bus was delayed so…
Spanish curva means “curve”, “turn”, or something bent or crooked. Polish kurwa, pronounced very similar, means “whore”. Erasmus students in either country have a blast…
Las normas nos dan confort. El ser humano puede tener un espíritu libre, pero aprecia la adictiva tranquilidad de un marco vallado. La incertidumbre nos…
«Que mellor ca un jetpack para saltarmo-la quenlla?» Bo día rapazada! Imos co único filme onde Bond pasa máis tempo rodeado de líquido que bebéndoo.…
Carnival is upon us! Such a great display of colors and parades. The most famous is probably that of Venice, and it is actually from…
«Ti fía de min, que con este truco imos rachar no Luar» Goldfinger é cando a saga de Bond comezou a, por dicilo técnicamente, petalo…
«Nena, é-lo plot device máis bonitiño que vin na vida» Ninguén se esperaba o éxito do Dr No, e asi foi que sacaron o seguinte…
Héroes del Silencio was, if you ask me, not only the best Spanish band of the 90s, but also one of the greatest rock bands…
“They tried to make me go to rehab and I said…” O primeiro filme da saga, sentou os alicerces e tradicións que logo se nos…
A idea era simple: ver un filme de Bond cada dúas semanas de 2014 (aproveitando que había exactamente 24 nese momento) e publicar unha crónica…
Corría el año 1986 y, en su mayor éxito, Os Resentidos pedían a gritos extender la fiesta gore del San Martiño por todo el globo.…
Etymology is not semantics. In this blog I talk a lot about etymology, because it’s fun and interesting, and tells us a lot about human…
In Romance languages, the history of the word “to know” is pretty straightforward. Yeah, it comes from Latin. Yawn. Galician/Portuguese conhecer, Spanish conocer, Italian conoscere,…
A small piece of dry ground surrounded by water may be referred to as an island or isle in English. In some neighbouring European languages,…
Year comes from PIE *yer-o- (“year”, “season”), which is probably related to the verbal root *ei- meaning “to make” as in “to make/complete a full cycle”.…
Foto dun mozo de pé e pensativo na beira dun río.
Foto da paisaxe de Toledo pola noite.
Today’s entry is longer. But to make up for it, it’s really fun. Read these sentences: The old man the boat. When Fred eats food…