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On Sat, 5/3/14, Carlos <xxxxxx@gmail.com> wrote:

 Subject: Re: [TML] Rules for fleshing out balkanized worlds?
 To: xxxxxx@simplelists.com
 Date: Saturday, May 3, 2014, 3:45 AM

 On Sat, May 3, 2014 at
 12:34 AM, Bruce Johnson <xxxxxx@pharmacy.arizona.edu>
 wrote:

 As the old joke goes: “Americans
 think a hundred years is a long time, Britons think a
 hundred miles is a long way.”

 Then again, 5 hours east of me is Texas. Heavy accents,
 strong sense of identity, their own flag, and the language
 is a bit different :-)
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 Sense of identity trumps true
 language differences. Most people in my region of origin
 (Valencia) refuse to accept that we speak the same language
 as Catalans just north of us. The difference is around 50
 words and an accent, I kid you not. Any travelling PC... er,
 tourist can get in a spot of trouble by calling the language
 "Catalan" in the wrong place. I suspect the real
 trouble is about the name of the language, if we called it
 Western Neolatin nobody would bother arguing about it.

 Carlos
 Alos-Ferrer
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So here's the million-dollar question;

If I do happen to find myself in Valencia what word should a use instead of 'Catalan'?