PUPUSAS FOR SALE
One of our favorite organizations that is active in the Latino community is Trinity United Methodist (Las Americas), located at 1548 8th ST (50314), across the street from Moulton School. A great way to meet them is on the third Saturday of every month when they have pupusas for sale! Queso, chicharrón y revueltas: $1.50 each. To order by phone call 280.8426 or 344.2438.
See you there!
Portuguese Classes
The summer of 2009 we started up an all-conversation, all-Portuguese class that meets weekly, usually on Wednesday evenings from 6:30 to 7:45, usually at the participants’ homes. The cost is $8-10 per class. We presently have three participants plus a paid instructor and are looking to add another person or two. The lucky new participants have to be very okay with all-Portuguese (no English) and all conversation: studying on your own is what you do before/after class, while the class itself is for talking (i.e suffering) ... and, of course, for food and wine! Até breve! [Forrest]
Lynn's On Broadway -
475 Northeat Broadway Avenue, Des Moines, IA - 244.0085
Found!
It was never really lost, but I had been searching for Lynn’s on Broadway ever since a buddy took me there in 1996 for a beer, a shot, and a cheeseburger. It was a great, working-stiff moment, but several years later when I went looking for it again, I couldn’t find it and lamented far and wide.
Until just a few weeks ago when I was on Broadway and happened to glance over at the right time and place. It’s like finding a four-leaf clover: they are out there but you have to be looking for something else, or not looking at all, in order to find one.
Chicago has the Billy Goat Tavern and Grill and Des Moines has Lynn’s on Broadway! [Forrest]
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Real Academia Española
A question came up in yesterday’s class (over quite excellent
gazpacho and guacamole) about the advisability of having a Spanish
dictionary, versus a Spanish-English dictionary. The answer is “yes”,
it’s something you’ll eventually want to add to your arsenal. We have
several hardback Spanish dictionaries here, that I can recommend to
you later, but mostly we use the on-line dictionary at the Real
Academia Española, the definitive place to answer questions about
Spanish.
One of the tools it offers is a verb conjugator. Search for “ir”, for
example, and at the top corner of the entry itself you’ll see a blue
button that says “conjugar”; click that and you’ll get the
conjugation. At the top right corner of the entry is a button that
says “Artículo enmendado” and that has further in-progress
information about the entry.
PROSPIRACY
pro•spir•acy (n) - a secret plan by a group to do something beneficial.
In 1897 the notion of plotting evil in secret prompted Mr Stuart Hansman, of Cronulla, to write to Dr. W.S. Ramson, editor of the Australian National Dictionary. He felt that there was a huge potential for good in practising the opposite of a conspiracy, that is, a meeting of two or more people to achieve worthy objectives. He could not think of an English word to cover this. He put forward the idea of prospire, prospiracy and prospirator.
In 2007 Jason Schissel revived the word on his Fresh Produce blog: A pro-spiracy is like a con-spiracy, except instead of plotting against you, people are plotting for you. For instance, if we were to discover that, for years the government had been siphoning money out of wasteful, inefficient programs and secretly spending it on health care and education, it would be the result of a massive prospiracy.
Learn a new (from the fringes of English) word a day from the Double-Tongued Dictionary. |
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