bilingual Pau? Discover Labarrère had a cruel word, but true: Pau Béarn is not a city. More precisely, is no more. Saying she was until the 1920s. Today is a subtle blend of Bath, Roubaix and Algiers. Bath for what remains of obsolete English. Roubaix architecture "commieblock" downtown. Algiers for palms. As for the people is that of a modern city, "mixed" to use the contemporary novlang, if modest.
What upsets me the most besides the lack of sharpness in the sociological reality of the modern city of Pau's that Braille. This Braille without even having done upstream the translation work. Occitan is that, of incompetence, have been orphaned by their father Grosclaude had provided in 1991 a dish to warm through Dico's Gazetteer. They have so proudly demonstrate their action so useful for the language by writing on the bus "Navarrenx / Navarrencs. Thank you.
But now we must work, because grandpa Michel Sauvelade lies. Be sought in the cadastre of the old street names. It must be mastered the classical spelling. It should not be ridiculed as in Toulouse (
ready for "Carrera Serviès?). This work, Occitanists do not. They are screaming, calling for "the bilingual! Of bilingual!" Yet it is not that Lignières
will translate their signs!
Meanwhile, the mayor calls " Cami
Salié "the" Salt Road "in its official documentation. I