Happy Andalusia Day!

Andalusia Day (‘Día de Andalucía‘ in Spanish) commemorates the referendum for Andalucia to become an autonomous community within Spain, which was held on February 28, 1980. So this year the 33th anniversary of their Statute of Autonomy is honoured.

Andalusia is internationally renowned for its impressive natural beauty, but also for the warm and hospitable character of local people. This is why everyone is more than welcome to come in and join the festivities. The question is: how do they celebrate Andalusia Day?

 

The Geek vs Nerd debate

One difficult thing about learning languages is translating. It may seem easy to translate everything when you’re a beginner, but at some point you start finding lots of terms with subtle shades of meaning and therefore without a straightforward correspondence. Why? Because language is culture, and culture doesn’t usually give names to unknown things in its surroundings – or not known yet.

So when people ask us: “How do you say ‘geek‘ /giːk/ in Spanish?“, the answer is “We don’t have a word for that“, so we: a) simply use the word ‘geek’; b) try to make up a fairly close synonym (maybe ‘friki‘ /ˈfrɪk.ɪ/?); or c) just explain what we’re talking about.

If you decide to employ ‘geek’ as it is, it doesn’t clear up the mystery of the meaning. If you go for the second option, the problem gets even bigger when you use that same Spanish synonym for another word in English: ‘nerd‘ /nɜːd/. So today we’ve decided to go for the third option and shed some light on the geek vs nerd debate. The following infographic by MastersInIt.org will give us a hand. 

Life is like a box of chocolates

We have a theory: anything gets better with chocolate. Whether we’re talking about muffins, beer or a bad day, we’ve carried out a series of homemade experiments and can guarantee that chocolate always works its magic!

Yes, we admit it, we have a craving for chocolate. In fact, we enjoy chocolate as much as we appreciate design, so when we found this Chocolates with Attitude limited edition box, we just couldn’t help falling in love.