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El Blanco confirms that the Spanish constitution g...

2009-02-17T00:13:00.000+01:00

El Blanco confirms that the Spanish constitution guarantees the hegemony and the rights of the Spanish (sic.) language. El Blanco must refer to the Castilian language. In any case, El Blanco understands very, very little of the history of his country with this affirmation. It is quite popular these days to take the side of the Palestinian Arabs in the Israeli/Palestinian conflict. So, by proxy,

I can imagine that Catalans want their language to...

2009-02-16T19:07:00.000+01:00

I can imagine that Catalans want their language to be taught in the educational system. But it shouldn't be forced on to people by making it obligatory. Furthermore; how is it possible that Spanish has been made a foreign language within its own country? I think that's simply absurd!
Catalunya is not an independant nation and it will never be. That has been laid down in the Spanish

Textually: "In the present-day reality, Catalans p...

2008-12-04T19:33:00.000+01:00

Textually: "In the present-day reality, Catalans pay more taxes than the rest of Spaniards (...)"

It's not exact. They're among who pay more taxes, but catalans aren't the number one in the list.

Please read this (spanish):
http://www.diariodemallorca.es/secciones/noticia.jsp?pRef=2008071600_2_376477__Mallorca-Balears-comunidad-paga-menos-recibe-Estado

and this (

Okay, I've had enough trying to reason with you. I...

2008-12-03T14:48:00.000+01:00

Okay, I've had enough trying to reason with you. It has become obvious that you are a Spaniard, not Catalan. You haven't understood a single thing I've written, and your written response in English is barely intelligible. You know what they say: Valencià i home de bé, no pot ser.

The Catalonia community simply want to impose its ...

2008-12-02T19:59:00.000+01:00

The Catalonia community simply want to impose its language and political interest to everybody they can, the Balearic Islands, Andorra, Aragon.
Catalans deceive valenciennes saying that they speak bad catalan and also say that his language is not a true language.
What more want you to understand? Perhaps how they treat other spanish inhabitants that are working there?

First, you have automatically disqualified yoursel...

2008-11-27T18:53:00.000+01:00

First, you have automatically disqualified yourself for offering criticism, Anonymous (and by the way, why don't you have the courage to use your name?), because not only do you exhibit ignorance of Catalan culture and history, you call the people "Catalonians." This cultural group are named "Catalans." Can YOU write well in English?
Business has very little to do with any sort of coherent

Catalonians do have the right to speak their own l...

2008-11-26T20:07:00.000+01:00

Catalonians do have the right to speak their own language... Who doubts it? But they should be consequent. Can they trade speaking only their language? Can they force upon others their one-and-only means of communication? Can they afford all the translators to make themselves understood? The greatest Catalonian authors have all of them published in the common Spanish Language. How can they be so

Furthermore, the article in "The Economist" really...

2008-11-16T17:28:00.000+01:00

Furthermore, the article in "The Economist" really is insulting. The author, writing in an English journal, is obviously unaware that the blame that Catalunya is not a nation (the author questions the Catalan claim to nationhood) lies with... England. It was the English who had sworn to defend the Catalan political system in the wake of the oncoming War of Succession, but backed out at the last

Of course Catalans wish to speak, read, and write ...

2008-11-16T17:11:00.000+01:00

Of course Catalans wish to speak, read, and write their own language. Those of us who are Catalan speakers and writers have plenty to say about this subject, and the main problem with such articles, such as the one printed in "The Economist," is that there is far too little public attention span--and too little space in the publication--to explain the history and the perfectly valid reasons why

I'm not sure cacique (which was the phrase used) t...

2008-11-14T09:56:00.000+01:00

I'm not sure cacique (which was the phrase used) translates to "tyrannical provincial political boss". The oxford concise dictionary translates to

1. (in Latin America or the Spanish-speaking Caribbean) a native chief.
2. (in Spain or Latin America) a local political boss.
3. a gregarious tropical American bird that has black plumage with patches of red or yellow. (lets hope