You have just become the father of your first child, you register him at the Civil Registry and, when his documents arrive a month later, you discover that his surname has been Hispanized, and instead of 'Garcia' like yours, your son is called 'García'. This is the case of a Catalan family that Plataforma per la Llengua has reported after the Civil Registry has ignored the family's repeated requests to correct the error and re-register him with his father's surname, which appears without an accent on his ID, passport, and birth and marriage certificates. After several complaints and exhausting administrative channels, the family has now decided to resort to judicial action to ensure their son's documents bear his surname and not one imposed in Spanish. The organization assures that in the last five years it has received about twenty complaints for violation of linguistic rights at the Civil Registry.

That no one fromCatalan International Institute for Peace To see no problem in using the phrase "Let them learn Catalan!" as a sign of racism or exclusion is a mistake that's hard to swallow. It's surely another indication, and a significant one, of the extent to which we've lost that broad political and social consensus we had since the end of the Franco dictatorship regarding making Catalan the language of everyone, and doing so as the lowest common denominator for coexistence in a country that doesn't have the political power to issue identity cards.

The statements made to the judge by Jorge Suárez, Deputy Director General of Emergencies for the Valencian Community, have revealed a detail that further delayed sending the alert message to citizens' mobile phones: the Catalan translation took them quite a while because Salomé Pradas, beyond tweaking the text so that it wasn't too typical of standard Catalan rather than Valencian, emphasized the importance of using the same language. In the debate over the translation, she asked that emphasis be placed on... Valencia and replace guys by guy and this by thisCatalan media outlets have reported on this situation, while Spanish media have overlooked it. Telecinco News they merely underlinedthe time they invested in materializing the messageand in the Newscast La 1 indicated that "The president of the Provincial Council suggested making spelling changes", without specifying which ones.

The change is both subtle and substantial. I used to order a cortado, a café con leche, these common words in the bar world, and the young waitress wanted to understand me. She felt it was her duty and that not understanding me was a defect that needed to be fixed. She was right. Not understanding me was a defect that needed to be fixed. Some waiter, perhaps the owner of the establishment, might have had a sour face, or perhaps he would repeat sarcastically: "Well, let's go with the 'tayat', it's a real pain.With the proliferation of bars run by Chinese people, the opposite effect occurred. The owners' children, behind the bar, answered in perfect Catalan, a product of concrete immersion. The smile of someone waiting for the eccentric, the crazy woman to finish her act. Then she said, with wide eyes, as if I were asking her if she knew quantum physics: "Let's see!"Like the teacher in front of the child with bad handwriting."A coffee alone?"His partner, also looking at me with a sad face ("Why are you making it difficult?" she thinks), says: "He didn't say that, man.". As if I weren't there.

The leader of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, who must feel the sexy breath on his neck and very macho From his colleague Santiago Abascal, he has unspooled a "points-based visa" for immigrants, giving preference to those with a "greater capacity for integration" and "a better understanding of the culture." According to the Andalusian president, Juanma Moreno, this means that Spanish should be a "requirement" for obtaining residency. In an interview on Onda Cero, however, he said no, that it's not the same as what Junts per Catalunya is asking for with our language. He said: "They are different things. There are two languages there. We have one. They put the emphasis on the other co-official language. And what we say is that a universal language like Spanish is important to know."

Left-back José Manuel Calderón lasted less time as a Nàstic player than a six-pack of beer at the door of an Airbnb. Four hours, which have served as an opportunity for fans, who have a good memory, to complain about his "Catalan-phobic statements.", after achieving promotion with Córdoba to the Second Division." "I shit on the dead of all Catalans," he said in an Instagram live. And then, he posted a story where he apologized with these words: "I apologize to all the people of Barcelona and all Catalans for my actions in the '~ live. palmos. "Shitting on someone's dead" is humiliating, yes, because it is dirtying, being disrespectful, with the ignoble act of defecating, the memory of those who are no longer with us and who we miss. deceased mother of yours, or you on mine, we are talking about a specific loved one. he "shitted" on the dead of "all Catalans" the demand for forgiveness should be for "all Catalans" But, for reasons beyond my understanding, this happy man apologizes to "all the people of Barcelona and all Catalans" "Catalan", and that, therefore, deserve a separate mention?

On Monday afternoon, on the program The diary Jorge's On Telecinco, its presenter, Jorge Javier Vázquez, tried to mediate between two friends in conflict. Maria Dolors from Barcelona had arranged the televised encounter, surprised that her friend Ana María was unhappy with her for not having time to meet up. Jorge Javier checked Maria Dolors's schedule to make sure she was, in fact, very busy. Then Ana María appeared, who—supposedly—didn't know who had organized this blunder. She's from Argentina, retired, and has lived in Barcelona for fourteen years. The presenter made it convenient for her to discuss the reason for the lack of understanding between the two women. Afterward, Maria Dolors reappeared on the set to clarify the source of the tension between them. As is usual on this type of program, they stirred up controversy, engaged in back-and-forth, until, in the end—what a coincidence—Maria Dolors revealed a compelling point. Sometimes she invited Ana María to join in activities she did with her other friends, but Argentina didn't want to go because they spoke Catalan. "I don't like Catalan", He said forcefully. Jorge Javier asked him how many years he had been living in Catalonia: "I could be 50 more years old and I wouldn't like it.", He insisted emphatically. Then Jorge Javier made a fuss: "But what's the trouble with learning Catalan? It's so beautiful, it's so cultural, and it's such a wonderful language!"The guest repeated:"I don't want toJorge Javier drew a somewhat elementary conclusion: "Do you know why you don't like it? Because you don't want to learn it.". Ana María assured that, in part, it was because learning Catalan would erase her Spanish. Jorge Javier laughed: "That's what Catalan is like. It enters your ear and erases your Spanish!' he concluded sarcastically. The guest with Albert Om nor, more recently, with Ricard Ustrell in Collapse. On this program, he even claimed that he was embarrassed to talk to him, and he attributed it to political reasons that had to do with Jordi Pujol, which he didn't specify. But he scolded the Argentine woman who did the same thing: not talking to him. "it is a very beautiful language"It often betrays a kind of linguistic condescension, as if Catalan were an ugly piece of furniture and others had to be convinced of its beauty. And you say, "Well, wow!" and you've done your part. They don't argue that you have to learn it because it's the language of the country or to better integrate into the social fabric or out of respect. This may be, precisely, Jordi Pujol's fault.

When Trump launched the ongoing trade war (on what he called "Liberation Day", and which in The Economist renamed "Ruination Day"), the Spanish Popular Party thought that the time had come for it to play the role of a systemic, structural party, capable of acting with a sense of state when the occasion calls for it. So Feijóo declared that, in the face of an aggression like the tariffs, the PP would stand by the Spanish government. What's more, he accused those who did otherwise of being unpatriotic (alert), referring to Vox.

1. The week of the forgiveness of part of the debt of the autonomous communities has ended with a final flourish. The president of Madrid, in a cover interview in The World This Sunday, left this headline: "Now we have to assume the Catalan debt, they treat us like idiotsIsabel Díaz Ayuso knows what the issue is that angers part of the citizenry, scares her followers and, at the end of the day, gives votes to the Popular Party. It is her version of "Catalonia is robbing us." and a pathological cynicism, she is given that what she says is true, she does not give a damn that it generates bad feelings among people of the same state and, if it suits her, she hides that the rest of the autonomous communities are also forgiven the proportional part of a debt that they would never have been able to return and that only in interest, was a bloody one for each community. gone again this week, the end justifies the means. But she knows badly that, in this perverse syllogism, it does not matter Catalonia. dead, that the independence movement is no longer the majority in the Parliament and that Catalan is only the habitual language of a third of the citizens. They have already won, but they like to fatten themselves. Cane in "The CatalansAgainst Junqueras and Puigdemont it is no longer enough.

1. The week of the forgiveness of part of the debt of the autonomous communities has ended with a final flourish. The president of Madrid, in a cover interview in The World This Sunday, left this headline: "Now we have to assume the Catalan debt, they treat us like idiotsIsabel Díaz Ayuso knows what the issue is that angers part of the citizenry, scares her followers and, at the end of the day, gives votes to the Popular Party. It is her version of "Catalonia is robbing us." and a pathological cynicism, she is given that what she says is true, she does not give a damn that it generates bad feelings among people of the same state and, if it suits her, she hides that the rest of the autonomous communities are also forgiven the proportional part of a debt that they would never have been able to return and that only in interest, was a bloody one for each community. gone again this week, the end justifies the means. But she knows badly that, in this perverse syllogism, it does not matter Catalonia. dead, that the independence movement is no longer the majority in the Parliament and that Catalan is only the habitual language of a third of the citizens. They have already won, but they like to fatten themselves. Cane in "The CatalansAgainst Junqueras and Puigdemont it is no longer enough.