Advertising on the cheap, and the joys of squatting.

A bit of free association, or rambling, as it is more widely known.

Link love for 05/06/2009.

Drinking, driving, cursing.

Promotes law as a truth-telling device.

But where does the buck stop?

Spanish entries from the 1811 Dictionary of the vulgar tongue, with some fanciful etymological speculation and a mercifully brief bout of bar-room anthropology.

After years of shilly-shallying, will France finally stand up to American fartpower?

Assuming RW’s liver survives the test.

Minsheu’s Pleasant and Delightfull Dialogues: where did he get all that horseshit?

The cases of Spain and Holland.

Stallholders in Vilafranca del Penedès are slashing prices, but don’t let greed get the better of you.

Kalebeul’s investigation into Vosk and the Na’kuhl temporal conduit yields some surprising results.

It’s looking good, and who the hell cares if it’s unconstitutional?

Italy vs England.

Here. With 350 million illegal flicks downloaded in Spain last year, that horse has already bolted. So adieu cinemas, and adéu language, but more work for bureaucrats and lawyers, who will also thrive from the proposal to make it punishable for a spouse not to perform half the housework. Q: Who’s going to invest in [...]

Don’t take shit from phoney idealists.

Renfe’s public information system at plaza Cataluña station can’t cope with the cedilla in Maçanet.

El Ministerio de Trabajo e Inmigración is struggling with Catalan, but not quite enough. All this doesn’t matter, of course, because the Germans and French will save us.

Another nail in the coffin of the language police is creating a wave of Europhile euphoria in this household.