(Eugenio Battaglia, Italy, 12/05/22 10:29 am)
The exchange of posts between Cameron Sawyer and José Ignacio Soler about regional languages has been very instructive. In reality many of these "regional" languages are national lan
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(José Ignacio Soler, Venezuela, 12/05/22 10:13 am)
I have been in Oslo for the last several days. This city never ceases to amaze me with its continuous progressive development. It is evident from its urban and architectural growth that Norwegian soci
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(Istvan Simon, USA, 12/04/22 3:37 pm)
I welcome Alice Whealey back to WAIS! She has not written for a while. It is a great personal joy for me to read a post of hers again.
Starting with the personal, let me say that Alice and I a
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(Cameron Sawyer, USA, 12/04/22 7:30 am)
JE wrote, in response to a post by Alice Whealey about the Ukraine conflict: "Ukraine was far from a united country prior to Putin's invasion--although I would add that nothing unites a coun
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(José Ignacio Soler, Venezuela, 12/04/22 4:53 am)
A brief response to Cameron Sawyer's latest post, where he asks me if I support the extermination of the Catalan and Basque languages in Spain. That Cameron would ask such a question suggests
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(Consoly Leon Arias, Spain / Canary, 12/04/22 4:05 am)
The President of the Second Spanish Republic, Manuel Azaña, declared that Spain had ceased to be Catholic.
Those assertions are recorded in the Diario de Sesiones de las Cortes o
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(Cameron Sawyer, USA, 12/03/22 3:04 pm)
I agree with much of José Ignacio Soler's post about language policy (December 2nd). Yes, a single official language can be a way to unify a country, and importantly, give everyon
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(José Ignacio Soler, Venezuela, 12/03/22 2:10 pm)
Regarding John E's comments on my post about nations imposing official languages, here are my answers.
First John asked about the imposition of French as the sole language of that Kingdom. I
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(Istvan Simon, USA, 12/03/22 4:19 am)
I found this draft of a WAIS post of apparently 7 years ago that I never sent. I send it now, as it still seems relevant.
Cameron Sawyer responded to my post saying that no one said t
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(Eugenio Battaglia, Italy, 12/03/22 3:51 am)
The Italian Judiciary System has recently shown that Italy is the best lackey of the Empire. It seems that no protests against US military bases are allowed--even if carried out by unarmed girls
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