music/muzak

On many online things, I’m a real late-adopter. So, three years after the inception of Audioscrobbler, I’ve joined in. Like wonderful electric, my collection isn’t much to brag about (actually, his is rather better than mine). Perhaps if I was willing to take more risks and download music via torrent-like apps, I’d have a better […]

Swearing

Linguists Marvel at Audacity of Yugoslav Swear Words (via wonderful electric). The differences in everyday swearing are shown in this humorous anecdote from the Serbian business dictionary: elsewhere around the world old friends greet each other with “Hi, it’s been a long time!” But, the Serbian translation reads “Đe si pizda ti materina?” (“Motherfucker! where’ve […]