#catalan — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #catalan, aggregated by home.social.
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Me preguntó que criterios utilizó #iOS para decidir que quiero leer la #traducción de #BBKing al japonés.
No creo que sea por uso reciente, los teclados que más recientemente he utilizado para escribir son el #catalán y el #árabe.
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I consider what is happening in Catalonia as an example of stage 0 Culture Cancer. Post cancerous. Localized, mostly treatable.
The Catalans are quite angry at the “outsiders” who do not put in the effort to learn Catalan, or care about the Catalan culture and community. They try to forcefully speak Catalan regardless if the others understand or not, and refuse to speak Spanish at times. They marginalize the outsiders and create a tense situation.
And the “outsiders” hate the Catalans and their “tribalistic” and rude attitudes. Or simply do not give a fuck about Catalonia in general, and whatever is happening there, making the locals even angrier at them.
The mix is anger, discomfort, separation, marginalization. From both sides.
However, this cannot be too much of a generalization. This is mostly happening in smaller villages from my knowledge, or very touristic regions.
Most people in Catalonia seem to be nice and decent people overall. Most will speak Spanish if you only know Spanish. My doctor even speaks English just to make it easier for me, even if is a bit harder for her. Granted she is not even from Catalonia. But she tries to speak Spanish, Catalan, and English.
However you do feel a tension between the Catalans and the rest.
You just feel it…
Snippet from Culture Cancer - tromsite.com/2026/07/culture-c…
#catala #catalan #catalonia #culture #trom #tromsite #tromarticles
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In Catalonia they provide courses for “immigrants” to learn Catalan so they can integrate into the society. We know many Moroccans who take these courses, and sometimes they can even get benefits from taking them.
But then if you look at their Muslim culture it has nothing to do with the Catalan one. So what if they know Catalan? Does that mean they are vessels of the Catalan culture? Of course not.
Don’t get me wrong is good to help people integrate, if they so wish, but don’t regard it as if these people are bending to the culture, since it can be vice-versa and they can lead to the mutation of culture. From USA to Catalonia and everywhere else.
Snippet from Culture Cancer - tromsite.com/2026/07/culture-c…
#catala #catalan #catalonia #immigrants #culture #tromarticles #trom #tromsite
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El independentismo catalán vuelve a salir en el informe de la Europol sobre terrorismo
El independentismo catalán vuelve a salir en el informe de... #europol #independentismo #catalán #Politica -
⚡A fire on the first line of the Barcelona metro resulted in approximately 140 injuries. The incident occurred on the contact line, according to the #Catalan 🇪🇸 publication Ara. [Meduza]
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Catalonia and the people speaking the catalan language reside mostly here:
And this is how they ended up here:
What was there before?Some Muslims it seems with their own language and culture.
To quote Wikipedia: “From the 8th century onwards the Catalan counts extended their territory southwards and westwards at the expense of the Muslims, bringing their language with them.”
The classic way of grabbing land, kicking off the “native” people (who very likely did the same thing to others who where there before them), put fences and borders and called it their land with their own language. The story of every tribe. Spain, France, USA … Every single one.
Snippet from Culture Cancer - tromsite.com/2026/07/culture-c…
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Pont Nou, originally built in the early 13th century, located in the town of Camprodon in the #Catalan #Pyrenees of northeastern #Spain.
#TravelTuesday #photography #TravelPhotography #bridge #Catalonia
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Have you heard of the vulgar-latin? That’s Catalan.
In other words a “vulgar”, non Latin, or “bad” Latin language. Because, of course, all languages are mixes of previous languages. We wrote a 600 pages book about the evolution of languages where we explain in detail how there is no such thing as Spanish, Catalan, English and so forth. Languages are in a constant movement and are comprised, just like those “sarmale” food, of many kinds of flavors. Catalan, French, Romanian, Italian and so forth, are languages that have evolved from Latin. And Latin evolved from other language(s).
To my Catalans readers, to put it simply, the Catalan language (and this applies for every single language) is this:
ONE:
A “bad” version of another language that over time mutated into its own language.
By “bad” I mean people will start to speak an official language (like Latin) in different ways (accents, new words, new ways to write it, etc.) and in the beginning this is considered as “bad” since it deviates from the “rules of the current language”.
But this “bad” will become the “rule”, just as the “rule” was also “bad” at some point. That’s how languages evolve.
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A language that stole words from other languages. Directly, shamelessly, and constantly.
Do you know how Catalans call the “Internet”? Well, “internet”. Inter-Net. Borrowed from the Americans.
Catalan, like all languages, is full of these stolen words, expressions, and meanings.
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A language that is vastly different from its own origins.
The Catalan that was spoken hundreds of years ago is vastly different from the one spoken today.
That’s the case with every single language.
