language choice

[Paul Brown]

On Wednesday, 7 May 2025 17:43:26 Central European Summer Time Albert Astals 
Cid wrote:
> 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.

Huh. This reference good enough for you?

https://dogv.gva.es/datos/2006/04/11/pdf/2006_4177.pdf

Page 2 paragraph 2. Or maybe it is not a legitimate enough document for you 
either.

> 
> > 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?

You do realise I am just applying OP's bullshit logic, right? 

Paul
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