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- From: cam@castle.ed.ac.uk (Chris Malcolm)
- Newsgroups: sci.lang
- Subject: Re: Minority Languages in the EC
- Message-ID: <24217@castle.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: 28 Jul 92 11:16:19 GMT
- References: <199207272159.AA27024@tuna.wang.com>
- Organization: Edinburgh University
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- In article <199207272159.AA27024@tuna.wang.com> MICHAEL.WILLETT@OFFICE.WANG.COM ("Michael Willett") writes:
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- >Interestingly enough, there is an advertisement by Catalunya
- >in this week's Economist news magazine by the Catalan
- >development agency, timed to coincide with the olympics. It
- >describes Catalunya repeatedly as a country. It does also
- >make a brief mention once about Catalunya being a country
- >within Spain.
-
- In one of Catalunya's towns (city?) there is a large square, bedside
- the bus station, which contains a lot of sculpture, the name of which
- (translated) is "the square of nations without states". My Catalan
- friend pointed to the name of the square, saying "As a Scot you will
- be able to understand how we feel about this. Stateless nations are
- one of the great tragedies of Europe, but only those who have
- experienced it can know this. This square is dedicated to stateless
- nations everywhere."
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