Litus posted a little mood piece a year ago on his blog. Antoni Ibàñez / TdQ, “writer”, who’s on Litus blogroll, copied it, published it in a book, and went round reciting it and telling the world how happy he was with his prize (everyone gets prizes here). The fragment has disappeared from his site [...]

Mouse Hunter has another useful neologism: tun, as in “stay tunned”. It refers to the large casks used to hold beverages and is the alcoholic sibling of “stay cool”. (I don’t know what getting tunned is like in Tunisia, but the last time I tried it that side of the water I didn’t get [...]

“Nannies make your kids speak funny” (via LanguageNews)

(It’s still here, and I use it, still being transitional.) The feed from Après moi le deluge has stopped displaying, and I don’t know why. I scraped Language Hat, because he’d started putting everything in the title field. Or something. If he doesn’t like it, I’ll sue him. Try scraping JA Millán’s and his code [...]

That’ll teach them to eat their greens, sez Heartless Harry from next-door. (Story)

Sounds like the citizenry is onto us.

Ian Llorens has found the solution to Spain’s constitutional crisis. Unfortunately he also wants to ban sombreros on the Ramblas. Ian, if Catalonia ain’t Spain then it must be Mexico, so get over it. (Ian links to Andrew Minh, who has discovered an “international fetish model” called Eric Blare. We’ll try to keep George Orwell [...]