Re: Minority Languages in the EC

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From: Chris Malcolm
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 11:16

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In article <199207272159.AA27024@tuna.wang.com> MICHAEL.WILLETT@OFFICE.WANG.COM ("Michael Willett") writes:

>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."
-- 
Chris Malcolm    cam@uk.ac.ed.aifh          +44 (0)31 650 3085
Department of Artificial Intelligence,    Edinburgh University
5 Forrest Hill, Edinburgh, EH1 2QL, UK                DoD #205

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Subject: Re: Minority Languages in the EC
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