LAS LENGUAS INGLESA Y ESPAÑOLA de Delfín Carbonell

  QUOUSQUE TANDEM ABUTERE, PEDRO SÁNCHEZ, PATIENTIA NOSTRA?

  Mr. Sánchez Castejón is, by a fluke, Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Spain and certainly not my cup of tea. As I do not wade in the mud of politics, I will not mention his policies and how he steers the kingdom's rudder. He appears in the news often -self-satisfied and with grinning features- and recently he went to Davos. Spanish TV showed him speaking English... and my hair stood on end as I listened with bated breath. He is a worse polyglot than Rafael Nadal , which is saying a lot, I dare say! Of course, his followers are probably in awe at their president´s language skills, but I am chagrined deeply. Not that other European politicians fare any better, of course, and I can imagine all of them, gathered, captained by Sánchez, happily destroying the English language, its grammar, phonetics, and phraseology in a prepoterous language approprietion. They should all, with Sánchez at their head, officially apologize to the British peoples for manhandling and abusing their native...