language choice

[Paul Brown]

On Wednesday, 7 May 2025 12:24:54 Central European Summer Time a a wrote:
> Hi,
> You may wish to note that proposing the Valencian dialect of Catalan is not
> helpful in carbon emissions terms as it is virtually identical to the
> Barcelona Catalan which I imagine "Catalan" refers to. 100% of its speakers
> are fluent in both dialects. As yet there is no version proposed for
> Yorkshire dialect or Australian English! I suspect there is some Spanish
> political aim here in proposing Valencian which has NEVER been a language
> whereas CATALAN IS!

Wow! You definitely got some hate agenda going on there. As a half-Valencian 
(the good half), I find your email highly offensive. 

You are also way off: https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idioma_valenciano

But, if it is practicalities and the lack of efficiency you are worried about, I 
guess we could argue that 100% of speakers from Catalunya are also probably 
fluent in Castilian Spanish so let's get rid of the Catalán translations too, 
right? But why stop there? Galician and Euskera have to go as well, as long as 
we are on that roll.

Know what? Let's go full imperialist and remove all languages except English. 
I mean I could argue like you, and as a native English speaker,  say "screw 
everyone else, as long as I got mine", huh?

Paul
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