The Spanish, making progress with a backlog of untranslated English snowclones?

Why and how the 17th century Portuguese tropical medicine specialist, Aleixo de Abreu, tried to prevent proles from reading his cure for scurvy.

Humiliating linguistic error in PR for Arcadi Espada’s new online newspaper

Is Mr Barbecue Bunny’s sardonic grin pre- or post-mortem?

Its teachers are raging butterflies, says a 16th century music publishing entrepreneur.

A Dutch compliment becomes a French insult.

Do Spanish speakers get more excited about “defective” accents than English speakers?

The strange shrieks of theatrical monsters often don’t require translation.

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

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

Italy vs England.

A conversation between Uncle Sam and Senyor Ambrós throws new light on notions of linguistic hegemony.

Is one of the all-time greats of popular Spanglish linguistics, so it is very much to be hoped that the NYT will again use the former after the next pirate raid off Barbary or in the Caribbean. There’s probably similar wordfun to be had in the South China Sea, but we don’t go there.

The other night reading the C18th Motteux translation of Quixote “by several hands” in a cheap American edition without date or attribution. The passage where they free and are then beaten by galley slaves has this:
They also eas’d Sancho of his upper coat, and left him in his doublet.
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It is suggested that an old Spanish slang word has nothing at all to do with Dutch pirates but instead adds weight to David Kleinecke’s generally discarded South American etymology of the word “pidgin”.