It was perhaps not expected to be presented in this way, in the mood of the controversy aroused by the astonishment of, and turned into the bea of the obvious shot that the Barcelona City Council had shot. A journalist specializing in podcasting and pop culture, is the first curator of the Catalan of the Barcelona council, which, unlike other councils, has not dared to open a council for Catalan directly. In the event of course, and knowing the journalists of ERC pressures to accelerate their incorporation and do something in the face of controversy, he had to leave the step with a more unsafe statement than solvent, remembering things as “we must guarantee the linguistic rights of the Catalan speakers of Barcelona and we will not allow that there are people who do not understand it”, a phrase that is not obvious.
It is also known and surprised (at least at the beginning) that it lacks more or less philological training, although this is perhaps this a pretentious requirement, as if they could only do things for Catalan those who are already linguists and onions. We already have a full professor on the other side of the Plaça de Sant Jaume, which attaches us with his pedagogism every time he explains a graph. In addition, their digital culture profile and new technologies seem to be quite suitable for the goal of retaining and attracting especially young people, which would be the most decimated age group in recent years. The data of the about Barcelona of 2018 (those of 2023 have not yet been made public) indicated that every day 40 speakers of Catalan were lost in the city, of which 15 were young. And if we consider that the data of 2023 for all Catalonia is a real bleeding, nothing suggests that the trend in the city has turned around. We continue to go for the stony.
We must celebrate, therefore, that young people are the recipients of the new municipal linguistic policies, but it is amazing the Deria, expressed by the mayor Collboni himself, of which they are the least citizen measures of all. The mayor said: “For the first time, a strategy will be displayed that prioritizes a specific segment that must help us to protect and promote the country’s own language. You must reach young people in a new language,” for which a “digital content factory” has been announced. It is very good, of course, but the digital space is a non-place where the borders are blurred, and where the advantage, precisely, is that digital content can be created in any hamlet and reach everywhere. The creation of digital content from Barcelona will benefit the entire linguistic domain and everyone around the world that consumes these products, but not specifically the city or its young people.
Now, one thing to tell me very well is like home all this language (it seems that the 68 measures announced in the previous mandate will be launched) with the city model we offer, and in, two eminently glotophageal groups. And above all, how the hemorrhage of speakers thinks, which is not so much that the population is leaving Catalan aside in exchange for more powerful languages (this also, of course, in Catalan it is no longer expected in school playgrounds or in base sport, and less and less in bars, restaurants and small trade), but directly that the speakers are playing the two of a city of prohibitive prices. Barcelona has become a wonderful city to visit but disadvantaged to live, slave of an economic model that precarious salaries, work and homes, and in which the own language is perfectly dispensable.
They have also announced that Salicrú will be mounted on a Catalan office. We have the measures that are stretched to compensate for nativity scenes such as the (the great red carpet we stop every year on the expats) or the.
