( A long post about language issues here in Palma ... conveniently cut for you to skip if you're not interested )

"Lo que me faltaba, una mora catalanista"

A Berber/Arabic translator and interpreter was harrassed by the Guardia Civil (national police) on Mallorca for using Catalan when addressing an officer.  When she stood up for herself, the officer allegedly used the above phrase, which means something like "Just what I needed, a pro-Catalan moor" - managing ( Read more... )

The Generalitat de València (the Valencian regional autonomous government in Spain) has shut down signals of Barcelona TV3, the only television station entirely in Catalan broadcast in the region.  It persists within Catalonia itself, but will no longer be accessible to the more than 3 million Catalan speakers in the Communitat Valenciana (some 78 ( Read more... )

                                           - Oh Atlàntida, a ont ets?
com solia, ahir vespre m'endormisquí en tos braços,
i avui los meus no et troben, d'esgarrifança freds.

L'Atlàntida, Cant Primer, 38-40

"Oh Atlantis, where are you? As i was accustomed, I fell asleep last night in your arms, and today my arms do not find you, cold from shivering