Consider myself learnt
13 September 2004. Inspired by .
Things learnt yesterday:
- Despite all its words sounding vitriolic, Basque is a language without swear-words
- Catalan has no way of saying "I love you"
- The word 'marooned' originally meant "leaving you on an island with the maroons (aka black errant sailors)"
- Buccaneers are so named from the French word boucain - those who cure meat in a particular way
- Javier Bardem is an even better actor than I thought and his new film is really rather good in that issue-raising way (and would also have made a cracking stage play)
- My liver is somewhat slower than it once was at regeneration