The festive yuletide. The time of love, understanding and celebration of silence. It is time to ponder those very basic questions that define all existence. Especially: dinosaurs.

Make this Christmas all about displaying your worldliness with the help of these handpicked customs from, well, mainly Catalonia, as it turns out.

Holiday Spirit in a nutshell.The mid-winter is seen in many cultures as a time of new beginnings: as the darkest day of the year passes the days start to get longer, signalling the rebirth of the sun and the beginning of new life. Thus it is only appropriate that BTSB should make its comeback heralded by changes in staff during this festive season.

This is a short story. This story is very silly. In fact, you would be better off not reading it.
John lived at home. At times he went out, and came back later. John had a cat. The cat’s name was Cat. John wasn’t very fond of complicated things.
John taught philosophy at university. There he spoke of the reasons behind it all, the matters of life and death, the purpose, the subconscious, the unconscious, and the …

Idioms are often beguiling in their incomprehensibility. This is particularly palpable when learning or teaching a new language. For example, Finns say that “cold coffee beautifies,” referring to coffee that has been sitting on the table for too long and is drunk anyway. I am still not entirely sure what the phrase really means, though all the words gathered together seem simple enough.
It is not only language learners that confuse these expressions. A …