Going Native: Chapter 9

What doesn’t kill me, makes me fatter

Previously: Going Native, Chapter 8: Cockerels go kikiriki

Undress one saint to dress another

(Warning: there’s some poor language ahead)

What my grapplings with the innards of the Spanish language gradually mutated into was an oldfashioned commonplace book, a highly personal selection of bits and bobs of Spanish which struck me as either interesting or od…