Day: April 28, 2006

Catalan lit at Frankfurt

I thought Stephen Burgen had taken the Catalan nationalist shilling, but John Pawlenko links to a sensible piece by him in the Times.

“Spanish better-written in US than in Spain”

So says Alberto Gómez, Fundación del Español Urgente person. He puts it down to better quality control, while the Spanish right–of course–think it’s the result of a loss of identification with the language. (Gómez’ preachy foundation is an EFE-bot. The EFE release contains errors of orthography (“National Association of Hispanic Journalist”) and fact (the US…