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Catalan language policy: Marxist, Stalinist, Francoist or fascist?

Posted: January 27th 2010 16:40. Last modified: January 27th 2010 16:50

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.

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Categories: Buildings, Empires, rulers and warfare, Languages, Late Middle, Les bourgeois, Liberals & locals, Mankind, Monsters, The law court, Theatre

Montilla at LSE

Posted: October 24th 2009 10:53. Last modified: October 24th 2009 11:55

The British establishment doesn’t give a rat’s arse what he thinks.

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Categories: Empires, rulers and warfare, Les bourgeois

Catalan minister of education at LSE

Posted: May 16th 2009 08:22. Last modified: May 16th 2009 08:32

Promotes law as a truth-telling device.

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Categories: Empires, rulers and warfare, Languages, Les bourgeois

Perspectives for home schooling in Catalonia

Posted: March 6th 2009 15:01.

It’s looking good, and who the hell cares if it’s unconstitutional?

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Categories: Empires, rulers and warfare, Languages, Les bourgeois, The law court

European parliament report on language policy favours individual choice

Posted: February 17th 2009 20:09.

Another nail in the coffin of the language police is creating a wave of Europhile euphoria in this household.

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Categories: Empires, rulers and warfare, Languages, Les bourgeois

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  • March 18 1376 

    Tempestad marina en las costas de Barcelona, donde se hunde un barco procedente de GĂ©nova y fallecen 60 personas.

Josep Pla, Palafrugell (1918-9)

  • 18 de març de 1918 Aquest matĂ­, al safareig del jardĂ­, he vist la primera oreneta de l’any. L’ocell era al cantell de pedra del dipòsit, molt a la vora de l’aigua, i tractava, amb grans dificultats, de beure’n una gota. A la tarda, en passar per davant de l’esglĂ©sia, les orenetes xisclaven volant, descrivint circumferències molt amples, al voltant del [...]
  • 18 de març de 1919 Nit. Em quedo sol a la cambra de la dispesa. VigĂ­lia del meu sant. Recordo que molts anys enrera, a Palafrugell, en tal nit com aquesta, passaven colles d’homes per les cases que cantaven els goigs. «Sed, JosĂ©, nuestro abogado – en esta vida mortal» –deien. Perfectament. Hom els donava mitja dotzena d’ous i se’ls havia [...]

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