admin @ December 8, 2008 # No Comment Yet
James Joyce said Zurich was so clean you could eat off the streets but he must never have walked up its alleys. It is a city for trams not tramps and after the three-kilometre walk uphill to the zoo and his grave I am sweating despite the cold. Crossing roads I get trapped on tram […]
admin @ October 30, 2008 # No Comment Yet
A recent acquisition of mine is The Pocket Dictionary of American Slang first published in 1960 after the combined efforts of two gentlemen, Harold Wentworth and Stuart Berg Flexner. Here’s a taste:
Baffle-gab: The ambiguous, verbose, and sometimes incomprehensible talk or writing often done by bureaucrats. Officialese.
Boom boom: A bowel movement.
Yatata yatata: Monotonous talk. Idle […]