Comments on: Catalan banned in Sants

By: J.D.

J.D. — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 13:29:16 +0000

Catalan was also banned by Louis XIV in 1700 following occupation of Cataluña by the French, who have always taken a sterner view in such matters than the Spanish.

By: kalebeul » The madness of Níjar

kalebeul » The madness of Níjar — Tue, 12 Jul 2005 12:09:54 +0000

[...] ys destroy themselves from inside out, whether we’re talking about Münster in 1534, Barcelona in 1936, or (allegedly) gay tea dances in 1990s London. This betrayal i [...]

By: kalebeul » The minister’s knickers

kalebeul » The minister’s knickers — Thu, 30 Jun 2005 16:26:52 +0000

[...] -speaking underclass against their Catalan-speaking landlords and formed the background to this kind of stuff during the mass killings here in the summer of 1936. Staged po [...]

By: Trevor

Trevor — Fri, 20 May 2005 10:47:50 +0000

I’m looking for a Murcian intercambio - why take chances?

By: Carlos Ferrero

Carlos Ferrero — Fri, 20 May 2005 10:25:28 +0000

Timothy Garton-Ash cites in his book “Historia del presente” (”History of the Present”. 2000: Barcelona. Tusquets. Translated by María Rodríguez Tapia. p.243) the famous aphorism from Weinreich “A language is a dialect with an army” —which, according to the Wikipedia, is actually from Hubert Lyautey. In a footnote, Garton-Ash ironically comments: “Perhaps it could be said that a State is a language with an army”.