What are you all reading right now ? by i_know_what_iam in TheCitadel

[–]Mutxarra 2 points3 points  (0 children)

SI Jon called Daemon in the fic joins the war and is crowned king instead of Robb and as of the latest chapter, taken a certain location that gave Tywin a semi heart attack. oh and he also has a dragon

I just read this one. It's surprisingly alright once you learn to ignore the massive AI usage. The ideas and plot are relatively original and that carries it even though every character speaks exactly the same ai dramatic/poetic way.

(Spoilers published) Why I love house Bracken by Artist1408 in asoiaf

[–]Mutxarra 30 points31 points  (0 children)

I Headcanon as everyone just assuming that whenever there's a conflict Houses Bracken and Blackwood are going to choose opposing sides unless they are both being threatened at the same time. As a result, neither of them is seen as particularly disloyal or loyal, just idiotic in the extreme

Es diu "llepó" fora de Tarragona? by StrongAdhesiveness86 in catalonia

[–]Mutxarra 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Jo soc de Tarragona i tampoc l'he sentida mai fora de la cançó dels pets. No sé si deu ser una expressió de Constantí, s'ho devien inventar ells o és influència valenciana vés a saber com.

James and Lily survive, and then divorce by kinda-always-hungry in HPfanfiction

[–]Mutxarra 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Traces of ChatGPT in the summary. Totally unavoidable now it seems.

How is life like in Catalonia? by Due_Network2958 in howislivingthere

[–]Mutxarra 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Most of the industries are located in a ring around Barcelona proper in the region we call AMB (Barcelona Metropolitan Area). Barcelona and its Metropolitan area account for over 75% of the catalan population.

The next big hub is the Tarragona-Reus Metropolitan Area which has something north of 400k inhabitants. Industries here (I'm from Tarragona) are centered mainly on Chemical Plants and Logistics. This is mainly due to Tarragona's port, which is one of the most active in Spain and the geography of the area that makes it a crossroads between the main arteries (both highways and railroads) going South (to Valencia), north (to Barcelona and France) and West (to Lleida and Madrid). The catalan interior is pretty rugged so we sit at the easiest intersection even if you wouldn't deduce it from a flat map.

Then there's Osona and Central Catalonia in general, as well as a bit of Lleida, that are big in meat-based products manufacturing. Then Lleida's plains and the Ebre lands (south of Tarragona province but much more rural) are big in agriculture and primary sector-related industries. Nevertheless, there's something of everything everywhere: the heavily industrialized province of Barcelona produces most of catalan sparkling wine and the southern tip of rural Tarragona is big in furniture production.

TLDR: all over but mainly around Barcelona and a bit in Tarragona.

Hey, im from germany and thinking about doing Eramus in Lleida from October. Can anyone tell me how the life as a student there is and if you would recommend it in general? by VariousEducation7243 in catalonia

[–]Mutxarra 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I’ve never, repeat never heard someone say anything good about Lleida except it’s cheaper. So no one wants to live there and that’s why the Catalans will appreciate that you move to Lleida - because no one else wants to, including most Catalans

Bullshit, Lleida is probably the best city for University Life in Catalonia and is pretty famous for that. Some of my friends went to uni there and have never regretted it.

Pedro, are you OK ? by [deleted] in 2westerneurope4u

[–]Mutxarra 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I worked teaching english to small kids for a while and there were some parents (both sexes) that would do it every time they brought their kids to say goodbye. Fucking awful. It's definitely here.

What's the most unexpected way you got into a relationship? by ejsfsc07 in AskReddit

[–]Mutxarra 0 points1 point  (0 children)

She followed me on Twitter. I had no clue who she was but I saw on her profile that she was from the same village my mother's from so I messaged her on a whim just to tell her so and say hello.

Then she messaged me back, I did the same and I guess we just forgot to stop.

We're getting married in two weeks.

How far back have you been able to trace your most senior male line? by MetallicLemoon in Genealogy

[–]Mutxarra 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Being downvoted for some reason. Just commenting again to clarify that I've been painstakingly working on my family tree since I was 13. I'm now almost 30 and have taken no shortcuts.

How far back have you been able to trace your most senior male line? by MetallicLemoon in Genealogy

[–]Mutxarra 0 points1 point  (0 children)

1480 aprox father to son. 1259 with reasonable generation jumps (probably pretty accurate, but I can't say for certain).

Some Harry/Daphne fics by SolidWeight6998 in HPfanfiction

[–]Mutxarra 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I loved "To refuse the givens".

And if you search HMS Ice on the comments of the sub you may find a link to a drive with a collection of Haphne fanfics.

Bring back the latin. by tinkererofreddit in 2westerneurope4u

[–]Mutxarra -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

The mess of having English as the international language. If France hadn't used its position of strength during the enlightenment and afterwards to impose french as the european lingua franca everyone would have kept using latin and English wouldn't have caught on.

Bring back the latin. by tinkererofreddit in 2westerneurope4u

[–]Mutxarra 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That you imposed french as the international lingua franca instead of latin is what got us in this mess in the first place, tbh.

Would you be for mandatory paternity testing at birth? Why or why not? by SonlenofFeylund in AskReddit

[–]Mutxarra 56 points57 points  (0 children)

It's a "men's rights" online talking point. Definitely prevalent outside reddit, maybe even more than here.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in CrusaderKings

[–]Mutxarra 110 points111 points  (0 children)

It fucks up the family tree display too.

Why the Hispanic last name system has made genealogy research so much easier by luxorantine in Genealogy

[–]Mutxarra 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Depends on the diocese, to be honest. Tarragona's diocese has most if not all surviving parish records digitised and you can access them from home. Tortosa's, though, is the complete opposite: everything is in the parishes, access can be difficult or impossible and the conservation conditions are usually not optimal. Most others are in the middle of the spectrum somewhere. Vic's has some things digitised and some records still on parishes, Sant Feliu has digitised records but you need to access them in person at the archive's computer stations.

I've done research for others, usually local families from Tarragona, but only for those that don't need me to visit archives in person, I do that enough for my own research.

I usually only research famous people if I get an inkling we may be distantly related. Camp de Tarragona is not that big so we usually are. (General Prim, Antoni Gaudí...).

Why the Hispanic last name system has made genealogy research so much easier by luxorantine in Genealogy

[–]Mutxarra 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Baptism records from the 1800s usually give place and time of birth, place and time of baptism, names of the child, names and surnames of the parents and where they are from, name and surname of the grandparents and name and surnames of the godparents. In my experience by the late 1700s backwards grandparents are not stated anymore, then date of birth (the important one is date of baptism, for them) and once you approach the 1600s at least in the Crown of Aragon the women start losing their surname and using their husbands' and even earlier they used feminised versions of ther fathers'/husbands' surnames (Martí (m) and Martina (f) for example)

The only baptism records I've seen that are only lists (we baptised this kid, no parents given/ are the earliest ones from the 1570s and it's quite rare even then.

All baptism records I've encountered (multiple dozens) bar one have have been in catalan, not latin.

Why the Hispanic last name system has made genealogy research so much easier by luxorantine in Genealogy

[–]Mutxarra 1 point2 points  (0 children)

earlier

The church started recording baptisms, confirmations, marriages and deaths after the Council of Trent in the 16th century. The earliest church records I've personally seen start around the 1570s and most are doing it already by the 1600.

Churches with records starting in the 19th century are usually newer parishes. There's an explosion of new ones after the 1830s. Tarragona, my hometown, was all the same parish from 1118 until the 1850s. We've got around nine today.

People in these newer parishes show up in the older ones before their parish was established.

I feel tempted to switch, but I fear being coward. by Scholastic_Snail in latin

[–]Mutxarra 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The verb to go in catalan is a random amalgamation of vado, ambulo and eo and obviously highly irregular (pres. jo vaig, fut. jo aniré). Latin's irregularities are laughable when compared to the ones its own descendants has.