By Maria Elena Walsh
To The Nation " Buenos Aires. 1996
Blame it on the gnomes, they never wanted to acclimate as nomos. Blame
have snow, fog, grandchildren, the Athenians, the unicorn. All the eñe evaders.
Ladies and gentlemen, comrades, loved children! Let us not take the NEA! We have been swiped opening signs of admiration and interrogation. And we fell to the shortened form. And we have translated the popcorn. And as the grandmother were few computer science has given birth to a monstrous # instead of January, with his funny wig.
Would you tell me what to do with our dreams? Among the fauna in danger of extinction, "Include ostriches and ñacurutuses? In Añatuya payments, how will sing the everlasting chacarera Añoranzas? What poor belly fajaremos the knot? What will the New Year, Naupa time, that ermine coat and cream to the glass? And how do we plot the sweetest consonant of the Guarani language?
"The spelling is also people," wrote Fernando Pessoa. And, like people, have suffered discrimination. Signs and signs, some white, tall and blue eyes like the W or K. Others morochos poor of Latin America, as this little letters eñe second ever considered by the monoculars Britain, which is in danger of moving to the side of the unemployed, after paying so many services and not just a letter gnocchi. A sweep, to delete, to substitute, say lazy handles the machines, just because ñ gives a little more work. Ideological laziness, we said in the seventies. English letter is a flaw of Hispanics, this impure race formatted and scanned also lazy. None of Hondurans, Salvadorans, Caribbean, Panama. Native unpronounceable! Let
owning something that belongs to us, that letter with cap, something very small but with less fussy than it seems. Something important, something people, some soul and language, something is not disposable, something of their own and shared because it sings.
some would not offer solutions absurd: Writing as an unforgettable Caesar Brutus, Buddy Oski teacher. Ninio, dreams, Otoni. Fantasy inexplicable that it was and we prefer not resume unless the mother country back and then called Hispania.
The survival of this letter we are concerned, regardless of gender, creed or software. Fight not add fuel to the fire where we debate discriminated sign. Letter is synonymous with character.
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