• Obelix@feddit.org
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    4 days ago

    The argument seems to be “please, Spain, deal with your local seperatist movement without pushing those efforts and costs onto us”

    • Blaze (he/him)@piefed.social
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      3 days ago

      The EU pays for translations for a lot of languages with less speakers than Catalan.

      If they logic is to “save money, let’s use another language”, then let’s just drop all of them and just speak English.

      Education in Catalunya is given in Catalan. Some people only speak that language, the same way some Croats probably only speak Croatian.

      Recognizing a language isn’t separatism.

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        7 hours ago

        So they use catalan for “internal” communication and Spanish for “external” ones

        • Blaze (he/him)@piefed.social
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          7 hours ago

          Kind of, in a similar way that a lot of European countries use their own language at a local level, then switch to English for United Nations communications: https://i.redd.it/p4d2mv7lnd1f1.jpeg

          Because they can speak English in an international context doesn’t mean that the local language isn’t the dominant one locally.