Showing posts with label Brazil. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Brazil. Show all posts

Monday, 27 January 2014

Surrealest interview

INTERVIEWER: Clarice Lispector, where does this name, 'Lispector,' come from?
CLARICE LISPECTOR: I don't know. I asked ... It's a Latin name, right?

Sunday, 25 September 2011

Favourite foreign onomatopoeia - 4

Tsik! – Wauja (Brazil), arrow impact (cf. tssigke! [sp.?])

[With thanks to Fry's Planet Word.]