Irene Rigau and visualizar
Send her to prison by all means, but make Aleix Vidal-Quadras, Luís Soravilla and other ignorant pedants visit her in penance.
Tag: language policy
In defence of Catalan language immersion
It’s a fine example of practical neo-feudalism, and screw the serfs.
€100+ subsidy per ticket at Teatre Nacional de Catalunya
How would *you* spend it?
Who cares about education when you’ve got lotteries, lotteries, lotteries!
La Vanguardia’s editors appear to think that the Supreme Court’s decision to officially re-introduce Spanish into schools is considerably less important for the future of Barcelona than today’s gambling results.
The Arabs say خروÙ, the Catalans say ovella, the Chinese say 羊, but the Spanish apparently say Ovis orientalis aries
Can something be done about the nutters who use scientific rather than common names for Wikipedia articles, or is it time to call the whole thing off?
Modifications to Slovak language law
Josep Huguet, José Millán Astray and the death of intelligence
With a sublime little parody of romantic nationalism from Camilo José Cela, who has his own particular view of this bothersome culture vs civilisation thing.
Spanish, most popular elective extra-curricular language in English higher education
Now ahead of French, while German is being overtaken by Chinese.
Catalan language policy: Marxist, Stalinist, Francoist or fascist?
The precedents for, and some possible implications of, the Catalanisation of Barcelona’s cinemas. Plus some crowd-pleasing video of the Quebec language police in action. (Allez! Allez! Allez! And the hell with the economy!) All in somewhat fevered response to an article by Martin Dahms in the Tages-Anzeiger.
Montilla at LSE
The British establishment doesn’t give a rat’s arse what he thinks.