San Jose News: Takeaway Opens

I was specially invited to the opening of our new village takeaway yesterday, as was everyone else in San Jose, and a fine evening of free food and booze was had by all. As you can see it's called Sa Cuineta and they'll be making ribs, lasagne, fish stews, paellas, roast chicken and lots, lots more and the best thing is, it's only 50 metres along our street! I sampled some sublime octopus fry up - really subtly flavoured as opposed to the overpowering version in some places - and a vegetable 'coca' with olives, peppers, onions and aubergine which was delicious.

And now, on a grammatical note, we've had examples of augmentative and diminutive suffixes in my last two blogs.

Chuleton - where the addition of 'on' gives the meaning of big - a big chop

Cuineta - where eta means tiny - the little kitchen in Catalan

We don't have augmentative suffixes in English, instead we use super, mega, hyper, or uber but we do have diminutive suffixes, for example let and ling (ducklet and pigling,) ette (borrowed from French) as in cigarette.

How about that? The things you don't think about when you're speaking your native language.