On clear days you will probably want to head straight out onto the observatory's wraparound terrace, which looks out over a rippling sea of pearly-white summits, deep into Italy, Germany and France and over the 22km-long tongue of the Aletsch Glacier, the longest of its kind in the Alps and a Unesco World Heritage site.

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Unfortunately, the Leica's take-up spool needs a long tapering tongue of film, which users must wedge under a spring clip on the spool's barrel before manually wrapping a few turns of film around it.

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When you speak in this language for such a long time your tongue deadens, it doesn't move very well.

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There already was a tongue-in-cheek sense about spam long before the Internet just ask Monty Python.

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For today, however, it'll serve as John Hodgman's own private library, the tongue-in-cheek backdrop for his long-awaited Engadget Show interview.

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She cannot speak the Ariekei tongue, but she is an indelible part of it, having long ago been made a figure of speech, a living simile in their language.

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To be able to use it tongue-in-cheek at this point suggests that we've come a long way and that there is less power for such language to do us harm when we appropriate it and make jokes out of it.

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