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the language issue at ET: a dissenting view | 251 comments (251 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)

Re: the language issue at ET: (none / 0)

Well, I should have been more precise - and have inadvertedly revealed my ignorance...

From Spain. I should have said. From Spain

Particularly since some of those fellas were speaking catalan as well,

doh

by PeWi on Wed Jan 25th, 2006 at 09:48:48 AM EST
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From Spain? You must not have seen (or do not remember) the ads that the Catalan government put out in the international press around the time of the 1992 olympics in Barcelona. "On which country would you place this city?" (red dot on Barcelona, on a tellow silhouette of southwestern Europe) Next page: "In Catalonia, of course!" (whole of Catalonia highlighted in red).

Kcurie knows I'm just snarking, but you just can't get away from it no matter how hard you try... And the thing is boiling over in Madrid and Barcelona as we speak... unlike Muenchen and Berlin.

guaranteed to evoke a violent reaction from police is to challenge their right to "define the situation." --- David Graeber citing Marc Cooper

by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Wed Jan 25th, 2006 at 09:52:40 AM EST
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I have already professed my ignorance. Cannot remember those adds, but then that was the time I just started University and I did not have a television...

by PeWi on Wed Jan 25th, 2006 at 01:03:25 PM EST
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The ones I saw were printed in Newsweek. Those were the days when I was innocent and still thought NewsWeek was worth subscribing to.

guaranteed to evoke a violent reaction from police is to challenge their right to "define the situation." --- David Graeber citing Marc Cooper

by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Wed Jan 25th, 2006 at 01:05:03 PM EST
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I don;t think I was reading anything in English back then... I had to learn Hebrew and Greek and I had only just survived school, with my English mark the worst mark of them all...

by PeWi on Wed Jan 25th, 2006 at 01:07:26 PM EST
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You know what? That comment is actually relevant to the topic of this diary...

guaranteed to evoke a violent reaction from police is to challenge their right to "define the situation." --- David Graeber citing Marc Cooper

by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Wed Jan 25th, 2006 at 02:20:27 PM EST
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