No sooner do I say that judge Mercedes Alaya - of
the ERE case - never smiles, than the Spanish media is reporting
she's just been seen to do so. Albeit during a marriage-vows-renewal
ceremony with her husband (Who else?). Here and here are fotos of
this but I, for one, am not convinced there's a smile there.
Incidentally, since marriage vows are for life, what is the logic
behind renewing them? Just an excuse for a party, I guess.
I watched Russia's RT TV channel this morning.
Initially, it was laughter producing but before too long I began to feel
nauseated by the relentless partisanship of it all. If
he's watching from Hell, Goebbels will be proud of his students.
Though not, I suppose, when they refer to the Ukrainians as 'far
right Nazis'. As if there's any other sort. I initially
thought the worst aspect of this morning was another appearance of
George Galloway, who seems to have bought back his soul from militant
Muslims and sold it to militant Russians. Or perhaps to the Devil.
But, in fact, the hardest thing to stomach was a clearly intelligent
professor from Moscow university who appeared to have taken leave
from Putin's backside to come on the program to tells us just how
nefarious the USA is. Supporting Al Qaida groups in Syria, for
example. Not to mention far right Nazis in Kiev, who are planning to destroy gas pipelines with nuclear weapons. And who must be stopped, I guess.
But on to brighter matters . . . Years ago, I
produced a list of Spanish words which, at worst, mean something
slightly naughty in the masculine form but mean something far
worse in the feminine form. Here's a Spanish list I saw last night.
If you don't understand Spanish, all you need to know is that puta
means prostitute/whore:-
PUTO: Gigolo, follador, vividor: PUTA: Puta.
ZORRO: Espadachín Justiciero: ZORRA: Puta.
PERRO: Mejor amigo del hombre: PERRA: Puta.
AVENTURERO: Osado, valiente, arriesgado, hombre de
mundo: AVENTURERA: Puta.
AMBICIOSO: Visionario, enérgico, con metas:
AMBICIOSA: Puta
CUALQUIER: Fulanito, Mengano, Zutano: CUALQUIERA:
Puta
BICHO: Insecto; animal: BICHA: Puta.
CALLEJERO: De la calle, urbano: CALLEJERA: Puta
HOMBRE PÚBLICO: Personaje prominente: MUJER
PÚBLICA: Puta
GOLFO: Masa de agua marina parcialmente rodeada de
tierra: GOLFA: Puta
LOBO: Mamífero predador rapaz y feroz. Hombre
experimentado y agresivo. LOBA: Puta
LIGERO: Hombre débil y/o sencillo: LIGERA: Puta
ADÚLTERO: Infiel : ADÚLTERA: Puta
“QUE HIJO PUTA”: Expresión de “menuda
suerte, ¡qué cabrón!”: “QUE HIJA PUTA”: Expresión de
“menuda Zorra, ojalá se muera”
Actually, I could add a few more - e. g.
Cerdo/Cerda - but I'll leave this for the future.
Finally . . . Sitting in my salón
yesterday, I had to endure a bout of my neighbour's apparently
purposeless shouting and wailing. It certainly wasn't singing. And
then it struck me what it was really like - the calling of whales
across the planet's oceans. So wailing is a more apt term than
I first thought.
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