Lingopal (blog)

Yesterday I went to a small supermarket to get a few things for dinner. There was a girl near the entrance serving soup with bread. Ah, the Global Financial Crisis has come to the Western Suburbs, I thought, before realising that this was no soup kitchen but rather a sample offering in hope of a [...]

A little while ago I was in Russia, running extremely late to catch a flight. The taxi driver started at a reasonable speed, but when he noticed my fretting and glances at my watch, his speed decreased.
‘Bistro, pazhalusta,’ I said (fast, please). Incidentally, ‘bistro’ apparently entered the English vernacular when the Russian soldiers, on chasing [...]