(b)logophile

English: I keep my money in a “bank”; A river has “banks”. Not the same. Dutch: I keep my money in a “bank”; You sit on a “bank” to watch tv (couch). Not the same. Greek: I (could, if I were in Greece) keep my money in a “τράπεζα”. You eat dinner at the “τραπέζι” [...]

I’ve got some kind of bizarro mental block going on with “Spain” in Greek. I confuse it with Israel and Japan. There are reasons, but they’re kind complicated. First off, it’s pronounced roughly “IspanEEa”, which I visualise as “Ispania” (yup, visualising the Greek sounds in Latin letters, you can see where this is going to [...]

Possibly the best band name ever to come to me in a dream. Bonus for the eagle-eyed: I’m not sure if the dream original was singular or plural. I’m also not sure which would be better.

This morning at the breakfast table: —Do you need the milk? —No, there’s no cereal left. —It’s very good with the biscuits. But I will not tell you, so I can eat them all myself.

Birds in general are weird, but our friendly neighbourhood reiger (heron? crane? stork? whatever) is especially so. What in the name of all that’s feathered is he doing on the roof of the houseboat next door, spreading his wings, wobbling his throat and stepping around in circles? A couple more pics below the fold.