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…
[Jorge Diz Pico]
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”.…
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…
When I started learning German, it was funny to see how Lego-like the language was. It made it easy and fun when you could pick…
pornography is a word the French (pornographie) took from the Greek (pornographos), where it meant “depicting prostitutes” (-graphos “write” or “draw”). porno meant “prostitute” after…
In my Facebook, I used to tell little anecdotes from when I travel to a place where they speak a different language or dialect. Now…
This one won’t be about etymology. Let’s diversify our topics! Rather, let’s talk semantics. There’s an often cited mantra in linguistics that every language can…
We use hush, besides for talking about a great Buffy episode, to speak of a silence. It can also be used as an imperative to…
A person that turns into a wolf is a werewolf. It doesn’t take a genius to suspect that were must be some kind of root meaning…
Wow! Here in northern Spain we usually have rain all year around, as well as cloudy gray skies. But this weekend, the heavens were clear…
According to the Rolling Stones, the devil introduces himself as a man of wealth and taste. We use the verb to introduce in a meeting…
Proto Indo-European *bha meaning to speak or say has been extremely prolific. From it we have gotten: Through Latin fama (reputation): fame, famous, fable, fabulous,…
Semicolon (“;”) is derived from colon (“:”). For a moment there I was tempted to leave the post at that point, but I’m saving the…
Today I’m going to talk about the Spanish alphabet, but a quick and non-scientific look seems to indicate that the same things apply to the…