Re: The relationship between Spanish, Galician, and Portuguese

gerry reinhart-waller <walu-@...> wrote:

> Also, what is the difference, if any, between Castilian and Catalan?

Is

> one more melodious? Is one considered more "vulgar" than the other?
> How many dialects are there in Madrid? In Spain? What happens to
> Espagnol as we approach the western boundary and what about the

eastern

> boundary with France? And what about Basque? Should they secede and
> have their own territory?
>
> I apologize ahead of time for my naïveté. BTW, the questions posed
> above are for anyone to answer.
>
> Gerry

Gerry, no offense, but it would be much better if you just picked up
any encyclopaedia and looked up "Catalan" and "Spanish" in it. Your
apparent complete lack of knowledge on this subject results in very
poor phrasing of your question, which makes it sound kind of
provocative. Can't you see from Miquel's previous post that this issue
is quite hot in Spain and that asking if one language is more or less
vulgar might result in a flame war between our Spanish and Catalan
participants? "Should they secede?" - This is ignorance bordering on
provocation, no less!

Again, no offense, but let's be more careful.

GK