Archive for September, 2008

I switched my KDE desktop to Spanish »

By on Sep 8, 2008 in Spanish | 6 Comments

As I mentioned at the end of my article, Setting up a Spanish keyboard in Windows Vista, I am primarily a user of Linux and the KDE desktop environment. In an small effort to immerse myself in a little more Spanish, I changed my desktop from English to Spanish. To do this, I opened the [...]

Twisting the snake’s mouth »

By on Sep 7, 2008 in Japanese | 2 Comments

I came across an interesting word in one of my JLPT prep books today.  It’s 蛇口 (じゃぐち　jaguchi).  The first character 「蛇」 can be read ja or hebi and means snake.  The second character 「口」 is read kuchi or kou and means mouth.   So 蛇口 is snake mouth, right?  Not quite.   What does this word [...]