what this blog needs is more posts about Rabelais

January 29, 2008

A person leaving the name SFP posted a comment on a recent post of mine, and I thought I’d re-post it here because it is just the sort of linguistic trivia I relish:

The Spanish for ‘gargantuan’ is ‘pantagruelica’. Rabelais wrote about two giants, Gargantua and Pantagruel. We picked one giant, the Spanish picked the other.


And while we’re on a Spanish language kick: in 2004 I posted about the Spanish version of the Army’s “An Army of One,” and in 2005 about the Spanish words for “escalator” and “pregnant,” and in 2006 about the Spanish word for “unicorn.”

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