January 2008
Wondering why...
January 23, 2008
... it’s been quiet around here lately? Here’s the reason why: Yes, that’s me. Well, not really. But I am going skiing for a few days, which has meant that I have had to work extra hard since the beginning...
Tell no one
January 14, 2008
Do you like the idea of a French film based on a best-selling American crime novel? Watch Tell no one. It's brilliant....
Language maps
January 10, 2008
Three interesting language maps for you, courtesy of strange maps (via Language Log) and Wikipedia (thanks Xavier!). Click on the images to go to the relevant articles. World map showing the countries with the biggest number of languages. Papua New...
Hello
January 8, 2008
In the form of "hallow", its possible earliest ancestor, "hello" dates back to at least 1340 and was used by Chaucer. In its modern form, it was first recorded in 1883 and its popularity rose with the advent of the...
Misery loves company
January 3, 2008
Do you know if a French equivalent exists for this expression? In general, idioms being the expression of popular wisdom, whose roots are shared by most European countries (the Bible, Greek and Latin literature), most English proverbs have French equivalents,...