New Arabic list! Nothing too gruesome this time, which is interesting. Not a lot of SEO winners, either, it was more of a grab-bag this time.

Another Chinese list, not as weird as some of the other ones, but plenty of gratuitous cheesecake. I’ve been using screenshots of the ad-linked returns as samples here, but I might start skipping them and use the first “real” image return instead for later grids. I haven’t decided if that’s true to the project or not.

A new Spanish Swadesh for your perusal. Nothing too weird, but dream interpretation evidently attracts SEO people all over the place.

This time the Russian Internet Swadesh was nowhere near as wacky as last time, although that would be hard to come by. It is very different from last time, however; yandex.ru served up different images for probably 60% of the words in the grid, maybe more. It’s probably the most volatile of the six lists I’m doing. I also got two “no image” placeholders for the first return for two of the items; I went with the second image return for those.

So today’s French Swadesh was kinda normal with not a lot of surprises, except for the dude in SCUBA gear sitting at a desk signing papers for 144 couler (to flow), and the three cartoon couples having energetic sex for 180 chaud (hot). This would be as good enough time as any to let me express my irrational distaste for the round-headed cartoon clip-art guy who features in such images as 134 tirer (to pull) and 135 pousser (to push). The drawings are relatively competent, as they manage to exhibit a good eye for body posture and general feel, but for some reason they annoy me no end.