Swobodin v Brně

It’s interesting to see an Aboul-Qacem Echebbi’s poem translated into English. No wonder that Wikipedia makes such an effort.
I have already translated the same poem into English and French one year and half ago, but I don’t have the skill of writing in poetic English.
In the poem “To the Unfair Tyrant”, the Tunisian young […]

Bureaucracy is derived from the word bureau, used from the early 18th century in Western Europe not just to refer to a writing desk, but to an office, i.e. a workplace, where officials worked. The original French meaning of the word bureau was the baize used to cover desks. The term bureaucracy came into […]

Research, n.:
        Consider Columbus:
        He didn’t know where he was going.
        When he got there he didn’t know where he was.
        When he got back he didn’t know where he had been.
        And he did it all on someone else’s money.

The history of warfare is similarly subdivided, although here the phases
are Retribution, Anticipation, and Diplomacy. Thus:
 
Retribution:
        I’m going to […]

صرخت بالناس قائلا : أود لو تصلبوني
فقالوا : ولماذا يكون دمك على رؤوسنا؟
فقلت لهم : وكيف لا تفاخرون بأنفسكم إن لم تصلبوا المجانين؟
فقبلوا قولي وصلبوني وهدأ الصلب ثورة نفسي. وعندما كنت معلقا بين الأرض والسماء رفعوا رؤوسهم وحدقوا بي وهم يتمايلون عجبا لأن رؤوسهم لم ترتفع قبل إلى ما فوق أقدامهم
وفيما هم مجتمعون حول الصليب […]

When talking of the etymology of the word “fuck”, people refer to acronyms:
“Fornication Under Consent of the King”, because “in ancient England single people could not have sex unless they had consent of the king. When people wanted to have a baby, they had to get the consent of the king, and the king […]

أصبحتُ أستعمل الانجليزية أكثر من أي لغة أخرى بما في ذلك العربية لغتي الأم والفرنسية لغة تعليمي
ومع ذلك فإني لم أتعلم الانجليزية جديا في المدرسة مثلما درست النحو العربي أو الرياضيات
أشغل جهازالكمبيوتر الذي يحتوي على نظام لينكس بالانجليزية أفتح صندوق رسائلي بالانجليزية والذي غالبا ما تكون الرسائل فيه مكتوبة بالانجليزية. أقرأ الأخبار بالانجليزية (لم أعد أثق […]

إنكم تستلذون أن تضعوا شرائع لأنفسكم
بيد أنكم تستلذون أكثر أن تكسروها وتتعدوا فرائضها
لذلك أنتم كالأولاد يلعبون على الشاطئ يبنون أبراجا عظيمة بحزم وثبات ثم لا يلبثون أن يهدموها ضاحكين صاخبين
فعندما تبنون أبراجكم الرملية يأتي البحر برمال جديدة إلى الشاطئ
وعندما تهدمون أبراجكم يضحك البحر منكم في نفسه لأن البحر يضحك من الأبرياء أبدا
ولكن ماذا أقول في […]

Beaucoup d’amis m’accuse de “francophobie” lorsque j’évite d’écrire en français, soit dans les blogs (y compris le mien), dans les forums de discussion, les listes de diffusion ou dans les chats.
Paradoxalement, ce n’est pas la haine envers la langue française qui me pousse à ne pas l’utiliser, mais c’est par respect envers cette langue […]

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bush
Noun
bush, pl. bushes
(slang) The pubic hair of a woman.
Translations
pubic hair of a woman
Swedish: buske c
vulva of a woman

French: chatte f
Italian: figa f

 
dick
Noun
dick (plural: dicks)

(coarse slang) The […]

NASA - Never Actually Sure of Anything
FBI - Fearless Band of Idiots
Fiat - Fix It Again Tomorrow
Alitalia - Always Late In Take-off
Pentium - Produces Erroneous Numbers Through Incorrect Understanding of Math
Windows - Will Install Needless Data On Whole System
Vista - Viruses, idiocy, spyware, trojans and adware
Java - Just Another Vain Attempt
Navy - No Anal […]

All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.
From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring;
Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
The crownless again shall be king.
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien

Adler’s Distinction:
Language is all that separates us from the lower animals,and from the bureaucrats.
Modesty:
The gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it.
Oliver Herford
 
Abbott’s Admonitions:
(1) If you have to ask, you’re not entitled to know.
(2) If you don’t like the answer, you shouldn’t have asked the question.
Charles Abbot, dean, […]

- What do you call a half-dozen Indians with Asian flu?
- Six sick Sikhs (sic).

How did not I pay attention to that during all this time? An only-1-MB GTK-based offline dictionary!

StarDict is a Cross-Platform and international dictionary written in Gtk2 and data is availbale from the Website. I started to find out about it downloading both Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary and the Russian Словарь Даля. Those data files […]

Accident, n.:
A condition in which presence of mind is good, but absence of body is better.
Foolish Dictionary

Adult, n.:
One old enough to know better.

A Law of Computer Programming:
Make it possible for programmers to write in English
and you will find that programmers cannot write in English.

Beauty:
What’s in your eye when you have a bee in your […]