Lauren Wood. Fallen.

 !! ... you control my rain brain

John Lennon. Imagine.

#prayforparis

                                                               #prayforparis

                                                                13 November 2015

 

Spain's festival of fire: Las Fallas.

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Compound nouns.

Take a good rest.

                                              Take a good rest.
                                              I, personally,  need it.

Health problems.

                                                        Match illnesses and medicines :

                                    

Spanglish.

"The word Spanglish is defined as a hybrid language combining words and idioms from both Spanish and English.

 Spanglish isn’t limited simply to mixing or adding phrases from both of the original languages. Individual words can combine aspects of English and Spanish. The Spanish language adopted the English verbs to rent and to park as rentar and parquear, and they are conjugated in Spanish accordingly: yo rento (I rent), tu rentas (you rent), yo parqueo (I park), and tu parqueas (you park). Of course, American English has adopted several words from Spanish too. We have more than a few fashionistas (fashion plus the Spanish suffix –ista) in the city and what New York neighborhood would be complete without a bodega?"

( source: http://blog.oxforddictionaries.com/2013/06/spanglish/ )

Film: Wish You Were Here (1987)

Wish You Were Here is a 1987 British comedy-drama film starring Emily Lloyd and Tom Bell. It was written and directed by David Leland. The original music score was composed by Stanley Myers.

Plot

Sixteen-year-old Lynda Mansell (Emily Lloyd) lives in a small English seaside town in the early 1950s. She is feisty and precocious and tries to shock other people with her vulgar and saucy tongue (her favourite insult is "Up yer bum"). Bored with conventional jobs (which she frequently loses) and her town's dull young men, Lynda has her first sexual experience with Dave (Jesse Birdsall) but after she has slept with one of her father's middle-aged friends (Tom Bell), her life changes. She becomes pregnant and her father, a somewhat rigid and conventional man, disowns her. Desperately she tries to seek an illegal abortion but in the end decides to become a mother.
"Wish you were here" is a sigh Lynda makes because of her dead mother, who understood her and protected her from her intolerant father. Beneath her cheeky exterior, Lynda is a vulnerable girl who seeks love and a place in life; she lives in a time when it was difficult for teenagers like her to do that in their own way.

(source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wish_You_Were_Here_%281987_film%29)

The Weeknd. Can't feel my face.

"I'm sorry."

So what were the different ways of saying sorry in the programme?

1) The simple ones. These are just statements on their own:

• Sorry.
• I'm sorry.
• I'm so sorry.
• I'm really sorry.

2) The classic one: Sorry I'm late.

3) Sorry about (something).

• Sorry about this
• Sorry about the damage to your bike

4) Sorry for (doing something). Normally this is followed by a verb in the -ing form.

• Sorry for losing your bike
• Sorry for being so smelly

5) Saying sorry without saying sorry – I apologise for...

• I apologise for calling you an idiot. It wasn't very nice.

source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/english/course/intermediate/unit-19/session-4

"Trick or treat ?"

                                           Demanding childhood ?  ;)

Artificial Halloween.

                               Halloween or the art of making money out of any celebration.
                                                            

                                                     * How do I look : terrific or horrific?

                            - You look terrific ! (positive meaning)  
                                             terrific = great, excellent, fabulous, splendid, wonderful
                            - You look horrific ! (negative meaning)
                                             horrific = terrible, horrible, awful

          * What is the meaning of "trick or treat"? 
              In Halloween :    trick = broma, travesura, "hacer la puñeta" (informal)
                                          treat = dulces, caramelos 
             The common translation "truco o trato" is not really very meaningful. I'd rather say 'broma o golosinas'.