In the Mirror of the Past by Ivan Illich

Author:Ivan Illich [Illich, Ivan]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
ISBN: 9780714521701
Publisher: Marion Boyars
Published: 2012-05-09T14:00:00+00:00

Please note the shift from ‘mother’ to ‘mate’. He enunciated the new betrothal of ‘armas y letras’ — the military and the university. Please note how the ever-changing patterns of vernacular speech may now be held up against a standard language that measures their improvement and their debasement.

Castilian went through its infancy at the time of the judges … it waxed in strength under Alphonse the Wise who gathered laws and histories and who had many Arabic and Latin works translated.

Indeed, Alphonse X was the first European monarch who used his native tongue to insist that he was no longer a Latin king. His translators were mostly Jews, who preferred the vulgar tongue over the Church’s Latin. Please note Nebrija’s awareness that the standard language is strengthened as it is used for the writing of history, as a medium for translation and for the embodiment of laws.

Thus our language followed our soldiers whom we sent abroad to rule. It spread to Arragon, to Navarra, and hence even to Italy… The scattered bits and pieces of Spain were thus gathered and joined into one single kingdom.

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