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And this, kids, is how a Spanish hater looks like.

If anyone is interested, Catalan[1] is a Latin language spoken in Catalonia and other areas of the North East of Spain, South of France and a city in Italy. It is also the official language of a country: Andorra.

It has about 10 million speakers[2], a bit more that Swedish, that is an official working language in the EU.

Its use has been forbidden in Spain during 300 years[3] -until the death of the Spanish fascist dictator Francisco Franco- but, even though it has managed to survive until today.

And there's a top level domain, .cat[4], that is intended for websites that use Catalan language.

Also, and we don't use Catalan because we are doing political experiments, or to annoy Spanish people. We use it because, for some of us, is our native language!

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catalan_language [2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_Europe#Number_of_... [3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catalan_language#Spanish_state... [4]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.cat



And this, kids, is one of the many problems with some Catalonian people. Persecutory delusion. "Spain hates us".


I was answering to you, not to all Spain.

And I did because I think that your comment stating that Catalan language and culture are a "political experiment" is not only offensive to Catalans -and anybody a little common sense- but also shows that you have a huge lack of understanding about Spanish culture and history.




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