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		<title>Garlic Moments: Correos and the Ley de Falta Uno</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 23:27:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Valerie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently I fell foul of La Ley de Falta Uno (The Law of One Thing Missing), which, as formulated by us, states that you can never ever complete a bureaucratic transaction in one go. Even something as apparently straightforward as picking up a registered letter at Correos is also subject to the law, as I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When the rooster crows at the break of dawn what does he actually say?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Mar 2010 09:13:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Theresa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Comparing Spanish and English]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[No-one is ever going to persuade me that a cock goes quiquiriqui or kikiriki, no matter what its nationality. After years of beratement (yes, I know this word doesn’t exist but I feel it should) from my students, however, I am prepared to admit that cock-a-doodle-doo is also pushing it a bit. Perhaps the Japanese [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Garlic Moments: Phones and Numbers</title>
		<link>http://inthegarlic.com/2010/03/garlic-moments-georgina/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 13:23:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Valerie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We all know what a Garlic Moment is.  Send us yours and we&#8217;ll post the best: they should not only be amusing but also helpful and instructive.  To kick off, here&#8217;s Georgina Tremayne from Barcelona with &#8211; what else? &#8211; a telephone problem.
Fatal Construction
Moving from one apartment to another apartment in the same town isn’t [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cuá are you talking about? Animal sounds in Spanish</title>
		<link>http://inthegarlic.com/2010/02/animal-sounds-in-spanish/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Feb 2010 19:58:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Theresa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Animals &#8217;speak&#8217; different languages. An English dog responds to “Sit!” a Catalan dog to “¡Seu!” and a Spanish dog to the long-winded “¡Siéntate!” Of course, what they are responding to (or not, as the case may be) is the tone, not the word. My cats don&#8217;t care what I call them as long as I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nicknames for the boys</title>
		<link>http://inthegarlic.com/2010/02/nicknames-for-the-boys/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2010 10:16:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Theresa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If Paco and Curro seem remote from Francisco, what can we say about Pepe – the nickname  for José? José (Joseph) was, of course, the surrogate father of Jesus, so one explanation is that Pepe is an abbreviation of the Latin Pater Putativus (Putative Father) - PP.  Another possibility is that the nickname drifted over [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I always said the Catalans had a way with vegetables</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Feb 2010 09:18:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Valerie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Catalan]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Browsing Catalan idioms the other day in search of the quirky, the bizarre, the downright weird &#8211; well, the bloggable -  I came upon a list of food-related ones and &#8211; oh, how could I have forgotten:  s’ha acabat el bròquil. The broccoli has finished.    Which means &#8211; said  in a voice that brooks no [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pacos, Paquis and Curros</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2010 08:47:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Theresa</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Malaga]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every other bloke in Andalucía is called Paco. In our village there&#8217;s a whole slew of them: Paco el panadero (Paco the bread van man), Paco del bar (Paco of the bar), Paco mechero (lighter Paco – a cheerful chap in his 50s with a mental age of seven who has a thing about lighters [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Barça Family</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Feb 2010 12:57:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Valerie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Barcelona]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://inthegarlic.com/?p=440</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Having married into a family of cradle-to-grave Barcelona supporters, el Barça is naturally one of the main threads in the tapestry of my life here. My sons were carted to the Camp Nou almost before they could walk and talk. During summers in the mountains, I drove 15 kilometres of hairpin bends every day to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Heavier than a cow in arms: more</title>
		<link>http://inthegarlic.com/2010/02/heavier-than-a-cow-in-arms-more/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Feb 2010 17:10:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The day after the TV show, when loads of you visited us and left comments, our website crashed due to circunstancias ajenas a nuestra voluntad, and all the new comments vanished into cyberspace.  We’re really really sorry. We’ve managed to retrieve them from our mailbox and here they are. Thanks!!!
From Paquita
Tienes más peligro que [...]]]></description>
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		<title>cursing in castellano</title>
		<link>http://inthegarlic.com/2010/02/cursing-in-castellano/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 11:18:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Theresa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Spanish are hugely fond of metaphorically defecating in and on all kinds of unsuitable surfaces and recipients. The least alarming is the sea. Me cago en la mar, I shit in the sea. Or for those of more gentile disposition, me cachis en la mar, or even just me cachis &#8230;.  I euphemistically shit [...]]]></description>
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