Daily Archive: June 2, 2004

Anna of little.red.boat collects animal noises in other languages and has a friend who collects the phrase, “I want to buy some Velcro,” for what to me are unfathomable reasons. Since one of my sophomore year college roommates, Nancy Paz* taught me how to say give me a kiss in Polish, I’ve collected the phrase in as many languages as possible. You never know when it might come in handy. I have them written down on a little slip of paper in a treasure box, a list that includes Arabic, Finnish, and Greek. Off the top of my head, without...