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["Josep L. Guallar-Esteve" <jlguallar AT maduixa.net>]

On Sunday 24 November 2002 02:1014pm, Diane M. Kurilecz wrote:
> A friend of mine was given a tour of the local police station the
> other day.  What did he do?  He woke up before dawn that day and saw
> beautiful fog, and decided to dash about town and take some
> photographs.  He ended up in Baltimore's Inner Harbor.  One photo he
> shot happened to point in the same direction as Baltimore's World
> Trade Center.  And he has long hair and a beard.  His mother is Greek
> Cypriot, so he looks vaguely Middle Eastern (if you don't know what a
> Greek looks like).  And he wears a skirt.  They demanded his driver's
> license and registration and took him down to the police station. 
> They asked him for his mother's name and address (he's in his late
> thirties).  In all, they detained him about an hour.  Of course, a
> *real* terrorist would be more likely to take photos during the day,
> without fog, and while amidst the hundreds of others who are snapping
> photos in a popular tourist spot.
>
> ***diane

And I'm afraid to speak my own language outside home or too loud or to 
talk with my family on the phone. 

You know, my language is not that well known ( ~ 10 milion speakers 
worldwide), there's no country that represents my culture[*].

[*] I know there's Andorra, but it's so small (~ 65,000 inhabitants) 
that nobody has ever heard of it. 

My language is quite distinct from Spanish (and even more from Mexican 
Spanish), it can sound French-ish or Italian-ish or even Portuguese-ish 
but with a different accent. And then, we use a lot of 'L' and 'LL' 
sounds. And 'S', 'SS' and 'Z' abound, as well as the 'DJ' sounds. Yes, 
there was plenty of influence from Arabic-speakers... until the year 
1,100, were Catalonia came again under the rule of Latin speakers 
(Christians of some sort). My name looks very weird and sounds very 
weird. Too many 'L', like the muslim name for God.

Yes, I'm afraid of speaking my language, a language form a culture that 
reveres Saint James as "Sant Jaume Matamoros", literally, "Saint James 
the Muslim Killer" . See near the end of this page: 
http://216.239.51.100/search?q=cache:NLu1aWfy1-8C:www.ua.es/personal/fvb/donsoc-sXVI.html+%22sant+jaume+matamoros%22&hl=en&ie=UTF-8

Yes, I'm afraid, even though a Catalan (Captain Jordi Farragut) helped 
against the British in the War of Independence. And his son (Adm. David 
G. Farragut) was the first Admiral of the US Navy. See 
http://www.neta.com/~1stbooks/jrm3.htm

Damn terrorists and damn politicians! The formers frighten me with their 
actions. The laters, use the formers as an excuse to cut my freedom!

I'm afraid to express my freedom. Where's my freedom in the Land of the 
Free? 



Salut,
Josep
-- 
Josep Lluis Guallar-Esteve