Favourite foreign onomatopoeia - 13

chin chin - (Italian/French/Spanish) the sound of glasses clinking together, i.e. 'cheers!'

(Amusingly, though, 'chin chin' means something rather different in Japan.)

Books I've actually finished (again) lately: 59

I read the Iliad a long time ago but I was too young to appreciate it.

- Ludo, aged 11

Since I'm sure you've always wondered...

[with thanks to Sandy Holmes]

Turning Japanese...?

Two Japanese girls on a late-evening commuter train, talking rapid-fire native, and then suddenly, in purest Californian:

Why d'you even cayre?

Also heard:

passive-aggressive
centre of attention
Oh my God...
No, you cannot have this: you cannot be cooler than me!
I'm a vindictive bitch.