The Accidental Linguist

Cielito Lindo (click here), a famous serenade composed by Quirino Mendoza y Cortés, has been claimed by Mexicans as a second national anthem, and is also known to most English-speaking Americans simply as the “ay, ay ay ay” song. It is also worth mentioning that Spaniards, Cubans, Argentines, and people from almost every other […]

It is a funny thing to be angry.  I have always known anger as a passing emotion, because it motivates you to take some action, and that action will remove the anger one way or another.  But it is different to hold in anger.  To choke on it.  I never knew that the sensation could […]