Day archive for April 13th, 2005

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Language blog aggregator

Posted: April 13th 2005 16:16.

I’m not on my home machine very much, so I’ve banged together a little, slow language blog aggregator to keep me amused.


Categories: Splog

Beasts of Europe

Posted: April 13th 2005 15:53.

The word “cat” does not appear once in the proposed European constitution, although there are five “animals.” Here’s a search tool.


Categories: Splog

Cheshire man Morris dances proud Spaniard into submission

Posted: April 13th 2005 15:44.

Via We Are Free Morphemes:
A Cheshire man sail’d into Spain,
To trade for merchandise;
When he arrived from the main
A Spaniard him espies,
A Spaniard him espies.
The rest is here.


Categories: Splog

I had a large farmhouse in the Catalan mountains and I burnt it down

Posted: April 13th 2005 09:32. Last modified: September 29th 2006 22:45

Francesc Pujols’ global taxonomy of women’s caresses.

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Categories: Liberals & locals

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Spanish history

Modern Spanish fiction

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On this day

Barcelona

  • March 22 1460 El príncipe de Viana alcanza por primera vez el perdon de su padre, y se viene de Mallorca á Barcelona.
  • March 22 1848 

    En obsequio del beato José Oriol, cuyo fiesta se celebra mañana en la parroquia de Ntra. Sra. del Pino, se cantan en la misma iglesia solemnes maitines á las 4 y media de la tarde de hoy.

Josep Pla, Palafrugell (1918-9)

  • 22 de març de 1919 Alta cultura. Les coses, és clar, haurien pogut ésser diferents… En acabar el batxillerat, la meva intenció no fou pas d’estudiar per advocat. M’hauria agradat més d’estudiar química, i per tal de servir el que jo creia que era la meva vocació, vaig matricular-me al preparatori de Ciències. Matricular-se! Prenguin nota de la parauleta! El [...]

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