Idioms
Mark is trolling for Spanish curse words. If you have any jucy ones, let him know. Boy do I wish that I had a weblog back when I was in high school and could have asked that question.
Meanwhile, this question has triggered a number of things...
I vividly remember seeing my Spanish professor becoming visibly shaken after someone innocently shouted out "¡Huevos!" in class. Seems there is a passing resemblance between eggs and a portion of the male anatomy.
The idiom starting with "Hijo de..." (in English, this translates to "son of a...") has fascinated me for some time. While there is a corresponding idiom in English, the Spanish version refers to someone who, shall we say, operates for profit. Clearly there was some co-evolution involved. Which in turn reminds me both of Stephen Jay Gould and Douglas R. Hofstadter, who were cousin-in-laws. Which reminds that I need to get back to reading that book which is excellent so far but a bit too heavy for travel. Controlling the layout and format, not just the content, but I digress.
Popping back up the stack a bit, I'm reminded of of the time when my son was gestating and chose to deliver a swift kick to my wife's ribs from the inside. She let out with the utterence mentioned above, in English of course. Relishing the ambiguity of the statement, I simply responded (with a wide grin on my face): "yes.".
The scary thing is that high school students will search Google for "spanish curse words", and they'll find my page. At least they should; it's in my title, and a header tag, and the body. And it really is a highly relevant search result. And all the other results are crap.
Andrew Orlowski, chinga tu madre.
Posted by Mark atI wonder:
- is he just training his flamebait detector?
- is it a test for encodings in his software?
- is he accumulating weapons for massive destruction?
- will the "toro cabreado" join the platipus soon?
Posted by Santiago Gala at
"Hijo de..."? Hijo de un galleta-comedor? ;-)
¡Sam es un Geek verdadero! :-)
Posted by James Snell atOhh, man, I have a pretty large repertoire of those, spanish being my native language and all :)
As for "Huevos", there's certainly a resemblance, but only a phonetical one, in case anyone is wondering :)
Posted by Tomas Restrepo atyou may enjoy this discussion, (i did).
http://www.reduc.cl/openblog.nsf/permlink/CIDT-5MKTL2
Posted by jonvon atalex you must see this
just wonderfully amazing. mark pilgrim asks "Teach me Spanish curse words". i wasn't amazed so much by the post as by the responses. just completely excellent. i've never seen a better proof that information is alive. ask the right question and...Excerpt from jonvon.freedomblog at
Why I'm unsubscribing from your blog
Sam,
I'm looking for your insights into programming, not how your freakin travel plans are working out. Granted it's your right to post whatever you want - I'm certainly not trying to tell you what to post. But I suspect that if you want to keep your readers you'll cut back on the crap about your personal life. I suggest you take a lesson from Chris Brumme - that is truly a worthwhile blog. Just an FYI.
Regards, Saul K.
Emailed by Saul Kripke at
Why I'm unsubscribing from your blog
I have a loooong list of things to say to people like this (and I can say many of them in two languages).... [more]Trackback from dive into mark at
Amusingly, Chris Brumme's only post in the past 3 weeks was an apology for not blogging more during his vacation in Maui. I am not in any way making this up.
Posted by Mark atPerhaps the name of the person who wrote that note isn't real anyway, but out of curiosity I looked up his name and up popped quite a bit about an American philosopher by the name of Saul Kripke. See http://goinside.com/01/2/kripke.html where he's described as one of the greatest thinkers in modern philosophy and highly admired as a living legend. His comments are a bit baffling since most folks would know that weblogs typically mix a bit of personal life with the major topics of the weblog. Plus, people aren't obligated to read every single post anyway. Curious...
Posted by Shirley Kaiser at
Shirley - my reaction was exactly the same as your, and quickly stumbled on the exact same web page...
The fact that this comment was sent via hotmail is very curious.
My way of responding is different than Marks... check back in a few minutes. ;-)
Posted by Sam Ruby at"Don't attribute to malice that which can adequately explained through heat".[1]. At least in the South of Europe it is so hot that my brain is melting, and I'm sure that other people's is too. Don't know around there.
Re your answer: The Clash would say it is "Overpowered by funk" ;-)
Posted by Santiago Gala atIt occurs to me, in regards to Chris Brumme's post referenced by Mark, maybe we're not to going to know the true impact of technologies like blogging until it's become a LOT more mainstream - in other words, until it's being widely used by type of people for whom not blogging during a vacation in Hawaii (even given available connectivity!) would seem so obvious that it wouldn't even be worth mentioning.
Posted by jbm at
Let me remind everyone: if you have something you want to say to Mark, he has comments open on his weblog.
Posted by Sam Ruby at
Trying to understand the Blogosphere
I don't think Saul understands the blogosphere. The point is that we all have our own interest and as we connect to each other (subscribe to each others RSS feeds), we get the good and the noise (I originally called this the bad, but thought noise...Excerpt from iBLOGthere4iM at
A Balanced Life, A Balanced Blog
At the same time, the tech world doesn't operate in a vacuum. Technology comes out of various social, political, and economic contexts, and one of the coolest things about blogs is that they help to reveal some of these often hidden contexts. ...Excerpt from MuseUnlimited at
Those that belong to the emperor
UUIDs in Python. In defense of Fahrner Image Replacement. That famous quote from Jorge Luis Borges. New writing from Leslie, Michael, Michael, stavros, and JD.... [more]Trackback from dive into mark at
Highly Relevant Search Result
The scary thing is that high school students will search Google for spanish curse words, and they’ll find my page....... [more]Trackback from Third Superpower at
To which she hopefully responded with a swift kick to your ribs....
...from the inside. ;)
Posted by Craig Andera at