OT: Slogan of the group,

Jonathan Lighter wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM
Tue Feb 5 02:29:48 UTC 2013


Too boring.

JL

On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 8:33 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 8:22 PM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
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> > And why include "Keep Calm"?
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> WAG: An allusion to the fact that the only Spanish language approved
> by the government is Castilian and making too much of a point of using
> Catalan or any other "regional language" or "patués" publicly could
> get you into trouble?
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