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   Amos to Gurriato   
   Re: =?ISO-8859-15?Q?Parlement_europ=E9en   
   19 Jan 06 22:39:55   
   
   XPost: soc.culture.occitan, soc.culture.europe, soc.culture.french   
   XPost: soc.culture.italian, soc.culture.british   
   From: amoswsteinhacker@hotmail.com   
      
   Gurriato wrote on 19-1-2006 :   
      
   > "Jacques Ressaire"  wrote in message   
   > news:43cfda54$0$26397$7a628cd7@news.club-internet.fr...   
      
   >> "Lucius" <-@-.-> a écrit dans le message de news:   
   >> 43cfca5b$0$18345$8fcfb975@news.wanadoo.fr...   
   >>> STRASBOURG (AFP) - Un député espagnol, originaire de Catalogne, s'est   
   >>> illustré mercredi au Parlement européen en s'obstinant à s'exprimer dans   
   >>> l'hémicycle en catalan...   
      
   > La ley del embudo.   
      
   > Ça veut dire la loi de l'entonoir: le plus large pour un et le plus etroit   
   > pour l'autre   
      
   > This is sectarian bullshit.It is funny that Catalibans  insist in speaking in   
   > their fucking gibberish at the European Parliament while at the same time   
   > they howl down any attempt  at speaking in Spanish at the Catalan Parliament,   
   > despite being the mother tongue of the  majority of the Catalonian population   
   >  and used by all in their dayly lives. Many years ago Catalibans started   
   > abusive booing and jeerign whenever any parliamentary deputy tried to use   
   > this language,  which is co-official in Catalonia. Nobody dares  to speak in   
   > Spanish at the Parliament for fear of being hissed at and ridiculed.   
      
   > Catalonia is full of  Generalitat's offices to process anonimous accusations   
   > against restaurants  and shops  using Spanish in their labels and menus.   
   > Their owners are penalized with very substantial fines for doing so. The same   
   > happens to private radio stations broadcasting in Spanish. Spanish has been   
   > totally outlawed at schools and teachers are punished for talking to children   
   > in Spanish, even at corridors or school yards.The Generalitat has recently   
   > created an office of censure, the CAC, with the job of determining which   
   > opinions and ideas are true or not and  to chastise the media  holding   
   > unorthodox views.   
      
   > The new Statut in process indicates that the use of Catalan is MANDATORY FOR   
   > ALL  CITIZENS.   
      
   > This is a goddamned abuse. Catalonia has become a fucking totalitarian   
   > society controlled by intolerant fanatics and ethnic bigots.   
      
   >                                     GURRIATO   
      
   It sounds as if you are right. The fewer languages the better. All   
   these different languages only act as an impediment to people   
   understanding one another.   
      
   Why don't we all learn English and have done with it?   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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