June 2010
7 posts
Pippa Passes →
“Twat” both then and now is vulgar slang for a woman’s external genitals.[1] It has become a relatively mild epithet in parts of the UK, but vulgar elsewhere. When the editors of the Oxford English Dictionary inquired decades later where Browning had picked up the word, he directed them to a rhyme from 1660 that went thus: “They talk’t of his having a Cardinall’s...
May 2010
7 posts
Legal Decision About Signatures in Different... →
See, and you thought multilingualism was complicated where you live!
(via @Langology)
The Etiquette of Workplace Multilingualism →
This is an interesting topic, but man what non-advice. I mean, I understand the basic point that everyone should be polite and yes, it’s rude to gossip about people using a second language. But ultimately, isn’t the notion that someone is talking about you until proven otherwise ridiculously self-centered?
And hey, English monoglots, if you get listen to Spanish all day then maybe...
TROMBOON →
The best instrument ever or the best instrument recently?
Things I Will Never Understand, #1
duffell:
Sticking 30 seconds of feedback at the end of an otherwise perfectly good rock song, for no apparent reason except that you can.
Thing I will never understand: NOT doing this.