language choice

[Albert Astals Cid]

El dimecres, 7 de maig del 2025, a les 13:26:21 (Hora d’estiu d’Europa 
central), Paul Brown va escriure:
> 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

I specially don't disagree with you, but, for what is worth, using the Spanish 
wikipedia for anything related to Catalan is just worthless, their anti-
catalanism shines in every corner.

> 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.

You know that there are hundreds of thousands of people that understand 
Catalan and don't understand Spanish, right?

Best Regards,
  Albert

> 
> 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