Hay A city in Fuerteventura called Pájara. I will not enter the history of the name of this place, belonging to the long list of Spanish places with curious names that occasionally give the news (from The city of disgusting That Federico García Lorca visited affection, acterrubias or elbows). In 2023, the City Council of Pájara asked the Royal Spanish Academy to include in his Dictionary the name of his city, so that anyone who is looking for bird And see that, female, it is defined Bird Since the momentary recession of an athlete or the female of the pin continued to know that there is a canary people so called. It is not the first time that a request to SAR is a news based on the ignorance of the objectives and limits of a dictionary, but the mayor of Pájara, with a little “what is mine”, has not lost the opportunity to claim his municipality through the lexicographic route and the thing, which we know, was there.
I remembered the anecdote of this canary place -name to the adjective thread Bird that appears in one of the Wasaps filtered a few days ago as an allusion of the President of the Government to one of his ministers. I go to Dictionary of injuries They published in 2019 Professors Cristina Tabernero and Jesús María Usunáriz, based on judicial cases of Navarrese in which the complaints presented by injuries were resolved. In its pages, the list of disqualifications is extended and, I suppose that, since there have been distances for many years (they are complaints from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries), I wake up a smile that people could be insulted to call each other dragged, Boquochuerto, spell, cows, Reumy, banal or Pantiernoamong others. It is terrible, on the other hand, to verify in those legal actions the number of times the religious, the racial or the national team were worth insults, such as Judaazo, Crucifistic, French or Moriscado. It is not Bird In that list of insults. AND?
I don’t ask and I will say that it is a denigrant and terrible thing that they call you Bird. But, probably, without reaching the significant category of insult, it seems clear to me that it is not pleasant to be called bird or Bird. In it Dictionary of the RAE, the name bird In addition to the general meanings of the animal field, the figurative extension of being adjective the way of calling “an cunning person and with very few scruples”. Sometimes the dictionaries define meanings in a way that does not correspond to living social use, but I believe that this academic definition is avoided with the use we currently give bird as an adjective. And no, it’s not praise for your boss.
I know that it is an assault on written intimacy for private consumption is widespread to the public. I know there is no conversation of fumes This bears his exhibition without offending some nearby. And I know that the context is important, of course. The negative thing that things must be written (The words fly Remains written The Latins said: the words are taken from the wind, the writing remains) is that what in an oral speech is contextualized in a nice way, scored another channel accusations, therefore the most prudent in some positions is to let it steam and not to write. I understand everything, we frame the circumstances, but you call you Bird It is not pleasant.
The minister said that he took importance and treated it as the less anecdote of an ancient conversation and alien; Has reduced the importance that can be given to this. It is in his freedom to do it if he considers him for his comfort: there are moments in which it is better not to put the stick in the candle and we are already well served as a tension. But something that attracts my attention for a long time is that they want to make us believe Words do not mean what we know what they mean. I say this because of the question of this adjective what surprised me most is that José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, asked on television about it, said it seems “an adjective, completely, quite fun” and that applying him to someone “has to do with what he is an intelligent person, list”.
I am not the one who assigns the meanings to the words, no matter how much I dedicate myself to the language and philology, but the former president is not. It is the language company, and at the moment, that they call you Bird It is not commendable or equivalent to being called line. And that’s why I write this article. Because if someone I thought two weeks ago bird It is an insult and today it thinks that it is a comprehensive and fun adjective, I think you have to measure the strength of your critical spirit and its level of equanimity and evaluate how much intellectual ability gives us those we listen to their words. Everyone holds from his boat to his shore, but we do not reinterpret the words according to the ideological paper of those who say. There can be no two different meanings for a word, depending on whether the brief is ours or the neighbor. This is not only to understand what a dictionary is, but not to understand what the language is, what is the social consensus that supports communication and how much is the responsibility of a citizen in a public voice in a democracy.
