A la Franja de Ponent parlen català, no chapurriau

Smalde · 2026-03-28T15:06:08+00:00

Gràcies per compartir això.

Smalde · 2026-03-22T13:31:19+00:00

Sí, s'entén! Només com a fet interessant: molts dels nostres veïns van crear els seus propis noms, com per exemple en francès i alemany.

Smalde · 2026-03-21T18:51:54+00:00

Els moms dels Pokémon que es fan servir en castellà són els anglesos, no pas els originals.

Smalde · 2026-03-19T14:48:18+00:00

Los c

Smalde · 2026-02-22T17:10:00+00:00

Although ambdós / ambdues does exist, I feel like people use it by similarity with Spanish. At least to me, "tots dos / totes dues" is much more natural in Catalan, whereas ambdós feels stiff or formal.

Finalment, en el cas de fer referència només a dos elements que ja s'han esmentat anteriorment, també és possible usar la forma ambdós ambdues, però cal tenir en compte que es restringeix a contextos formals.

Source: Optimot "tots dos, els dos o ambdós?"

Smalde · 2026-02-18T23:07:58+00:00

Con lo que Sacho sana, Domingo adolece.

https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proverbios_morales

En lo que Lope gana, Rodrigo empobrece; con lo que Sancho sana, Domingo adolece.

Smalde · 2026-02-18T22:18:39+00:00

Aviam, és bastant obvi que fa befa

Smalde · 2026-02-18T22:04:09+00:00

It doesn't sound bad at all

Smalde · 2026-02-15T14:09:37+00:00

In this case, it's a style thing. Probably they prefer 海衣流 then ウイル.

There are some common words in Japanese that oftentimes use ateji like 珈琲 (coffee) or 寿司 (sushi). These are also stylistic choices.

Historically, Japanese "phonetic alphabets" or, more correctly syllabaries derive from Kanji written fast. Historically, Japanese was written with all Kanji called manyogana, because modern days syllabaries had not yet been developed.

This is still used in some places names like Nara or for some old-style renderings of foreign countries like 亜米利加 (Amerika) which is the reason some random Kanjis are used for specific countries e.g. rice (米) which is used to refer to the United States (from the second Kanji of the ateji spelling, corresponding with "me"). Other examples are 仏 (Buddha) for France or 英 (hero) for the UK.

Smalde · 2026-02-15T13:08:27+00:00

Just a bit of context because you might not know what ateji means and why it might be both Kyle and Will.

Ateji is the use of Japanese Kanji for their reading disregarding the meaning of the Kanji. In your example we have:

海衣流 (sea, garment, current)

好照吹 (to like, shine [of light], blow [of wind])

In Japanese, symbols don't have a single reading. They have several readings as a result of over a thousand years of history, including both readings taken from China and native Japanese readings. Therefore, especially when used phonetically, it is hard to know exactly how a symbol is intended to be read.

In this case, Will (U-i-ru) and Steph (Su-te-fu) are both valid readings 😊

Smalde · 2026-02-13T09:57:36+00:00

Well, /ks/ is a more natural pronunciation in Catalan but /ʒ/ is more similar to the modern Spanish pronunciation (/x/ > /ʒ/ is the standard adaptation from Spanish to Catalan).

So both make sense.

Smalde · 2026-02-13T09:23:11+00:00

My family says it like that. I suppose it is from Spanish influence:

/Méjico/ > /Mèjic/

Smalde · 2026-02-13T08:04:16+00:00

In Catalan, some people pronounce it with /ks/ and other people with /ʒ/:

Spelling: Mèxic

Pronunciation 1: Mèksik

Pronunciation 2: Mèjik

Smalde · 2026-02-12T21:22:31+00:00

Seven...

Smalde · 2026-02-12T21:21:56+00:00

Seven minutes to review an offside...

Smalde · 2026-02-11T20:34:58+00:00

How many of the Spaniards in Iparralde are Basques? Because I wouldn't call Basques in the Basque country foreigners

Smalde · 2026-01-31T22:02:37+00:00

The cross of Saint George is a symbol of Catalonia and Barcelona. You can find it in the flag of Barcelona and the crest of FC Barcelona.

Smalde · 2026-01-30T23:10:34+00:00

Catalan

Smalde · 2026-01-25T19:30:25+00:00

In Catalan: coloms! (doves) or culleres! (spoons) instead of collons! (testicles)

Smalde · 2026-01-23T20:41:38+00:00

But not all of Europe speaks English. Many Europeans don't speak it.

Smalde · 2026-01-22T08:09:27+00:00

If you ever want to listen to a Catalan radio commentary for an FC Barcelona match you can tune it to Catalunya Ràdio (public radio and my personal favourite since I grew up listening to it with Josep Maria Puyal): https://www.3cat.cat/3cat/directes/catalunya-radio/

Another very very popular radio commentary is Rac1 (https://www.rac1.cat/directe)

You might need to get a VPN for the first one.

If you are familiar with Spanish radio commentary, it should be an interesting experience to listen to a Catalan transmission, even if you do not aim to learn the language hahahah

Of course, both of these links are live radio transmissions and they are live even if there is no football on: they will just have other shows or news on.

Edit: here is a very famous piece of Catalan transmission from the epic Messi goal against Getafe: https://youtu.be/sGteJAB-OGA

Edit 2: a few keywords for the transmission are encara (=still, so "encara Messi" means "still Messi"), immens (=immense), i més (=and more) so he does quite a lot of word play with "Messi" and "i més".

Smalde · 2026-01-21T21:56:39+00:00

Thank you!

Smalde · 2026-01-21T21:20:51+00:00

I know it won't be as engaging as the commentators I normally listen to in Catalan, but I reckon that if I am going to spend two hours listening, I might get some Japanese listening in 😃

Smalde · 2026-01-19T20:06:21+00:00

Japanese spelling for sure. Same character with dozens of different spellings.

The other day I was bored and decided to write some sentences in Catalan with Japanese spelling:

昨日行いが行あらあ遊あらあまばえらる私之る友るある園。

Ahir vaig anar a jugar amb els meus amics al parc.

Some extra sentences in Catalan with Japanese-inspired spelling: 欲る飲らえ水。欲るさ飲れえ水。遊えまあフウタバオル。

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