Albert Jané on Llengua Nacional: “In his well-known work on the prepositions per and per a …, Joan Coromines says that concerning a great number of aspects of the use of these prepositions [Pompeu] Fabra [the inventor of standard Catalan] ‘didn’t legislate’ but ‘did leave behind jurisprudence’.” That’s all very well; I just wish I could find some way of memorising it.
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