New quote, old story

“The tongue is the deadliest of all blunt instruments,” quotes Carlos Ferrero with ref to the Catalan media authorities’ new guide to banishing Spanish and all references to Spain as a country from our screens.

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Comments

  1. Thank you for linking back, Trevor. When I started my blog, I had the intention to talk about politics -especially Spanish politics- as little as possible, but I’ve already realized how naive this purpose was…

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