The Council of Majorca has joined the battle to defend the rights of local authorities to award grants to businesses for their signs and other material to be in Catalan. The Council is make available 250,000 euros for this purpose, and the move is a direct challenge to the stance of the former Council president and now national government delegate, the Partido Popular's Maria Salom.
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Council to give 250,000 euros in grants for signs in Catalan
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You can tell from his body language that he won’t listen to a good idea like...spend the money on Mallorca’s appalling schools to give kids the same chances as on the mainland...including English as a second language!
I said years ago that this freebie discriminates against the co-oficial language (castellano). Ratepayers money should not be used for business grants neither for companies that publicise in catalán nor in castellano. But this continues in Pollença anyway. Just opening tomorrow is a mega chinese emporium called 'Poco de Todo' with a large expensive sign. So no grants there then. Shame for them they didn't call it 'Poc de Tot' !
Somehow think Pollensa has got its priorities wrong, far more important things being ignored for the sake of 'national heritage'.Will be of little importance when the bubble bursts - which it surely will. Back to empty buildings,longer dole queues,high unemployment and a definite fall in the standard of living for those unable to escape (due to unwillingness to embrace progress/ modernisation in language diversification.)
A lot of tourists will understand some Spanish but few,if any,will understand Catalan but maybe it's in readiness for when tourists go elsewhere.?
I thought Mallorca had its own language somewhat related to but by no means always similar to Catalan? If you wish to be accurate then use Mallorquin.
Yes, all the tourists understand Catalan! Very parochial in this EU.
Catalan, Catalan, Catalan. Destroying a generation of youth. An island that every child could easily be speaking four languages fluently by the age of 11. This Catalan narrow mindedness.