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Teaching standard variants of Spanish

Carlos Muñoz of the Institut Libre Marie Haps in Brussels laments (a) the decline in prestige and airtime within Spain suffered by the standard, educated, Madrilenian accent of Spanish, and (b) the lack of phonetic consistency exhibited by model speakers of the more specifically regional accents which have to a certain extent replaced it. He [...]

Recession rations

Debating at lunch how long it would be before we’re all eating grass soup (sopa de golf on the costas), we progressed to the devil’s cookbook, and someone mentioned the 16th century colonial chronicler, Bernardino de Sahagún.
Back when Bernardino was booking the cooks Mictlan was where dead Aztecs lived–way up north, probably in New [...]

What does Zapatero do when his internet connection is down?

From El Imparcial, 18/01/1912:
Rome, 17th (9.20 pm)
This morning a telephone subscriber asked the Central to put him through to the offices of the Palace’s chief huntsman. A considerable period of time passed without response, and the subscriber became impatient and vigorously protested the delay. The young lady responsible for the service replied that no one [...]

Don’t crap here, we’re full already

I’ve often flippantly wondered whether the taboo on excretion at holy sites so thoroughly documented by Michael Gilleland is the origin of the old joke about the antiquarian who locks his shop during absences to prevent folks depositing even more junk. Here’s Melchor de Santa Cruz de Dueñas’ take (Floresta española, 1574) on Mark 4:25 [...]

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1472: Entrance by capitulation of the King of Aragon, John II. Entra por capitulacion el rey de A... 1843: (Martes) En toda la ma~A+/-ana no ha habido fuego de ninguna especie. A las dos de la tarde se... 1909: FERRER -- WHOSE DEATH HAS SHAKEN EUROPE; Story of the Teacher Who in a Career of Only Eight Years Gr... 1909: TRY FRENCH AT BARCELONA.; Three Men and Woman Charged with Part in Burning Convent....
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1562: Barcelone et ses d~A(c)fenseurs pers~A(c)v~A(c)r~A"rent plusieurs mois encore: les troupes fran~ASSa... 1759: Charles III disembarks on his way from Naples to occupy the Spanish throne. Desembarca C~A!rlos III... 1802: The royal order from the king of Spain for the delivery to France, was issued at Barcelona, October ... 1843: (Domingo) Hoy ~A! las cuatro de la madrugada el capit~A!n D. Jos~A(c) Bux~A^3, acompa~A+/-ado de un... 1848: Las religiosas carmelitas obsequian con solemnes cultos ~A! santa Teresa de Jesus reformadora de... 1909: BOMBS BURST IN BARCELONA.; Had Been Seized by Authorities and Did No Damage.... 1934: Barcelona as usual went off completely halfcocked. Without waiting for definite news of the progress... 1940: Llu~A-s Companys, President of the (dissolved) Generality of Catalonia, executed at Montjuic Castle ...
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1843: La insurrecci~A^3n catalana sigue en decadencia lo mismo que cuando escrib~A-amos nuestra ~Aoltima c... 1843: (Lunes) Hoy no ha acaecido nada digno de notarse como no sea el tiroteo de costumbre. A las sie... 1909: THE DANGER IN SPAIN. In the execution of FERRER, after a secret trial by court-martial the Spanis...
MuseScore: open source notation software
I’ve got an old Sibelius CD down in the warehouse, but I couldn’t be ar*ed to find and fetch, and it probably wouldn’t work on Vista anyway. So … I ... Sugar Beast Circus
More vids. Home. “this show combines beautiful sets, stunning aerial displays and wonderful animated landscapes. Set inside a series of miniature circus tents, The Sugar Beast Circus brings back to ... Washboard + organ duo
This means I can leave percussion off the organ. But does anyone play the washboard or frottoir in Spain?
Curing the Hashimoto habit
As the Asian financial crisis deepened in 1997, the then Japanese prime minister Ryutaro Hashimoto made the memorable remark: “Japan cannot save Asia, it can only save itself.†Until Sunday, it looked as if most of the European Union’s national ... 21st century chiringuitos being built in Roquetas
Mojacar is full of lovely old Chiringuitos or beach bars. Some have been in the same hands for 30 years. There used to be more, but the “authorities†don’t like them, saying that they’re untidy, ugly and within 150m of ... i want to run a bar in spain but got no money how do i do it
After a comment by “South of Watford†Graham about people finding his blog while searching for mine, I went back to the log files and spent a happy hour perusing it. Must do this more often as I do enjoy ... Second Class Europe
I had occasion to need my 'residence card' today. I went to a branch of my bank with various bits of ID, including my passport and a bank-card, but they wanted my 'residencia' (which I've lost). Eventually, they let me ... Rroma, ús i abús
Arran de la darrera entrada, l’amic Paolo, sempre amatent a desviacions oficialistes, em va comentar llur preocupació per l’ús excloent del terme rom o roma que havia apreciat en els darrers anys i que amenaçava d’escombrar-ne altres de ben nostrats ... Zapatero anuncia otros 100.000 millones para el sistema
Zapatero anuncia otros 100.000 millones para el sistema financiero y no descarta entrar en el capital de los bancos Nueva vuelta de tuerca para atajar la crisis financiera. El Consejo de Ministros -reunido de forma extraordinaria en el Palacio de ... Valle Radio Times (the old 89.8fm)
Having finally realised that yes, 89.8fm is a silly name for a magazine, the Valle Radio team have relaunched the magazine as Valle Radio Times. Continuing with the silly name bit, as “Valle†is “Valley†in Spanish, but as it’s ... No English Friendly For Madrid
It didn't take long for this item to make it into the Spanish press. It's hardly a surprising decision, the Spanish football authorities preferred to look the other way and pretend that no racism was involved rather than acknowledge what ... Balanç: zero
Els articles s'han de llegir fins a l'últim paràgraf, aquest:"A Frankfurt no vam descobrir res. Vam presentar una cultura que, de fet, ja feia uns quants anys que era emergent entre els editors alemanys. I això no és fruit d'un ... Long Live Barça’s new... ‘Show Boys’?!
La Liga Loca is now completely convinced that when the international break comes along, the holiday-happy editorial teams of the Spanish footballing press head for the hills and are replaced by a herd of goats with basic literacy skills. An ... The man sitting next to me on the plane, a Nigerian now living
The man sitting next to me on the plane, a Nigerian now living in America making a living selling second-hand heavy digging machinery, said that flying into Lagos is his favourite moment of the trip back. The moment that he ... El mercado más cosmopolita de París
El mercado más cosmopolita de París comienza en la calle Emilio Castelar, pero los españoles no lo saben. [ .. ] Pastelería argelina, puesto de frutas y legumbres mediterráneas. 6 septiembre 08. Foto JPQ. En el Marché d’Aligre / Mercado ... Matt Groening, your lawyer is on line two (Mmm... Marginalia)
From Bodleian Library MS Bodl. 693, a fifteenth-century gradual (think "medieval songbook"):Oh, sweet merciful crap! Did Matt Groening, of the Simpsons, Life in Hell, and Futurama, steal his trademarked overbitten cartooning style from an anonymous fifteenth-century English scribe? The evidence ... Italy’s Attacks on Migrants Fuel Debate on Racism
A recent spate of violence against immigrants across Italy is fueling a national conversation about racism and tolerance. Are the fiscal pockets deep enough to save the banks?
With a bit of luck, by the time I wake up tomorrow morning, most of the west-European banking system and a fair number of other highly leveraged systemically important institutions like insurance companies, will be in public ownership, with the ... La fragmentación de la Fonética Española
Por Carlos Muñoz, profesor de Traducción Técnica del Institut Libre Marie Haps (ILMH) de Traductores e Intérpretes de Bruselas. Una noción que está desapareciendo por razones de cortesía política y equidad cultural entre Autonomías es aquella de « pronunciar bien ... 2008/10/12 - Intentan que el término Kinkón se incluya en el diccionario de la RAE
Con motivo del 75 aniversario de King Kong, estrenada en 1933, una empresa de 'marketing' se ha propuesto que la película inspire un término en el diccionario de la Real Academia Española. La iniciativa fue presentada durante el Festival Internacional ... Le Cent Quatre
The following is a guest post from Leo: As promised, here's a quick report. First, it's still work in progress. On day one of public opening, just one workshop in public use, but unfortunately, the artist had not arrived yet... ... Fashion Trend Or Actual Emergency?
Readers might have noted that, over the course of the recent decimation of equity market values, that two 'contrarian indicators' flashed the public with the enticing cleavage between them. Along with the hormonal surge that is the natural product of ... Yo también quiero un carguito
Ahora que vamos todos camino de convertirnos en émulos de Carpanta, es un buen momento para comentar alguna nota curiosa sobre la austeridad de al administración. ¿Conocen ustedes alguna decisión del gobierno catalán acerca de política energética? No cuenta lo ...
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Pickpocket, Saturday market, Vilafranca del Penedès (0)

Vilafranca is a quiet country town, but the weekly market attracts an interesting range of pickpockets. Hopefully numbers will increase as the works in the main square are completed and the recession begins to bite. This lady put her hand into S’s pocket at a vegetable stall:

She works with another Latin American women with magnificent Indian features who she is calling to find out where she has got to. The stallholder says they are both newcomers. Neither had time for interviews.

New piano shopping Calvary (2)

Barcelona. Shop no 1 is closed at 11:30, well within its normal opening hours. The iron street blinds are down and there’s no message posted, so I walk across town to shop no 2. Yes, no problem, pay now and we’ll confirm the delivery date in a moment. The call comes a couple of hours later:
- That model isn’t available right now.
- When will it be?
- We may be able to tell you later this month, so to save trouble why don’t you just buy this more expensive model?
- No thanks. I’ll be over later to get my money.
- Oh, we’ll have to see about that.
I tend to try to buy through foreign suppliers and I pray for the day when the Chinese will be running everything. Call me a racist, but it keeps me out of the loony bin.

“Zapatero announces a bank deposit guarantee of €100,000 per saver” (0)

Man: What’s that?
Woman: A bank deposit guarantee?
Man: No, a saver?

Spanish sovereign debt default (3)

It now seems that Iceland has defaulted, apparently believing Russia will be foolish enough to attempt to protect what’s left of its cod against ETA trawlers from Bilbao. Spain is not going down that road, at least not yet, but one of the more-quoted papers on the subject (De Paoli, Hoggarth & Saporta, Cost of sovereign debt) informs us that it did so thirteen times between 1500 and 1900. I rather liked this Punch item on steps towards a more united Europe, dated September 1 1860:

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SPAIN, put up by France and Austria, as a candidate for admission to the United European, has been blackballed by England, who declines to associate with an Uncertificated Insolvent. Spain is so frantic that she is half inclined to pay her debts, but will probably think twice over so rash an act.

The Dutch haven’t got any genuine armed forces, so they’re sending in the bailiffs to repossess office furniture from the Dutch Icesave, which has also done a runner.

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