Queen Letizia presided over the 20th anniversary of the creation of Fundéu, the organization that ensures the proper use of Spanish. This is the second time in a week that the Royal Academy of Languages has opened its solemn headquarters, in the center of Madrid, to host an event. The first was this Monday, with the introduction of over 300 new words that are part of the updated RAE dictionary.
This Wednesday was also announced the word of the year chosen by Fundéu, which is, among 12 candidates, Price.
The queen, more of a journalist than a sovereign, has been its honorary president since its creation and actively participates in conferences, such as those organized in San Millán de la Cogolla, cradle of Spanish.
“I look at you and I really enjoy being here, among all of you (mainly academics and journalists). You cringe when you receive a WhatsApp with errors, a wrong comma, crazy gerunds, confusing prose, those non-existent accents…You laugh but you think the same thing as me. “I’m not the only one with this stone,” she declared (without reading) to the laughter of the audience in the RAE auditorium.
(Rockaccording to the RAE, gets hit with a stone, but colloquially it is used when “you have mental problems, are a little crazy or behave in a very strange way”, other non-academic sources point out). “That’s why I want to belong to your tribe, the rich and nourished precision of the words, the flexible correction,” he declared.
Letizia praised those who “want the gentle reflection of words and arouse affection for a subject, for words, which help us express ourselves. A language that gets richer the more it is read. You know the manuals but also the books. This is why you teach to use the language better.
“Fundéu continues to sharpen these tools.” And he cited the philosopher José Antonio Marina, “who, along with other experts, left his mark on the seminars.” It is one of my privileges to attend these seminars in San Millán de la Cogolla”, recognized…
It’s a privilege to dedicate time to the FUNDEU site, but I’m not saying I’m ‘skrolling’ because Fundéu doesn’t recommend it,” the Queen said.
“Another of my privileges is to devote a lot of time to the Fundéu site. I don’t say what I do scrolling because FUNDEU does not recommend it. With the language academy and the EFE agency and its further development. “It’s an institution that solves linguistic problems.”
And he referred to the people who work behind the scenes. “For this service to continue, there are four women and two men who help everyone: philologists who love words and the way they are configured so that they acquire meaning. To those who came up with this idea, thank you for helping us understand the world better. Congratulations”.
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