Catalan spelling 101: u/v

The manager of this distinctly non-Bond den of one-armed banditry in c/ Hospital, Barcelona subscribes to the commonly-held opinion that illegal Spanish signs can be turned into legal Catalan ones simply by removing the last letter of each word. In his case, SALON RECREATIVO -> SALO RECREATIV:

One hopes the spelling police will take a relaxed view re the substitution of u by v (in medieval English generally only permissible in initial position; what’s the case for Lemosin dialects?) and read the corrected version as SALÓ RECREATIU.

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Comments

1. alfred sez:
   9 March 2008 at 1:04 PM

   Ola
   I’ve only just discovered your blog. I can’t find the thread from 2006 about language traitors operating inside TV3, identified as Grup d’Estudis Catalans. Any news about these mischievous worms, or have they been exterminated?

2. Trevor ap Simon sez:
   10 March 2008 at 10:21 AM

   http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2006/02/26/traitors-to-the-language/

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