Spanish profanity
Recently happened across the Wikipedia article on Spanish profanity. The little I've read of it so far seems to be useful and interesting. See also the articles on Portuguese profanity,...
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Special English
I had previously heard of Basic English, a proposed simplified English with an 850-word core vocabulary. (In case you're curious, a Basic English website has some examples.) But I hadn't...
Jacques Brel is alive and translated, sort of
I was working on various things while listening to music in the background, and the song "Marathon" came on, from the 1968 cast recording of Jacques Brel Is Alive and...
Multilingual 404
Aaron H points to this cute multilingual file-not-found page. Not to be taken too seriously, especially the dialect versions in English and quasi-English....
German
A piece of spam this morning led me indirectly (by way of a quotation) to Mark Twain's 1880 essay "The Awful German Language," an entertaining complaint about the difficulties of...