The incredible response of RAE to a sexual joke – 14/02/2019

The sequence is disconcerting, considering that it is the official Twitter account of the Royal Spanish Academy (RAE), the body that governs the Spanish language. A Twitter user consulted about a two-way grammatical doubt and the body responded with an unexpected humor quota, which caused an uproar in this social network.

"The following is a very common question among us Twitter users. We would like to know if I'm inviting me to see Netflix & # 39; is written with G or J. Of course thank you very much", was textually what @LuciooFerreyra consulted in the service of resolving the doubts that the organization offers under the name" RAE Informs ".

The response of the RAE was immediate and, recalling the implicit meaning of the question, he replied: "In none of its meanings, the verb" bad "is written with" g " the way the sound [j] go before "e", "i": catch, take; and with "j" the way this sound goes before "a", "or": lame, let's take ".

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This thread became viral and thousands of users celebrated the presence of the tweeter but, above all, congratulated the person who responded on behalf of the RAE, with an attitude which they considered to be devoid of any solemnity.

Normally, the users of this network ask the community manager of the body of the language how a word is written, if a certain sentence is well expressed and another kind of doubts like this and the RAE responds, almost always, precisely and very formally. This time, it did not happen.

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A few days ago, the agency had also responded with humor to another consultation that had been a football covered with chicane from an Argentine user (from River) to his historical rivals (from Boca), which suggests a policy of communication more aggiornada with the eras which take place, in particular in the networks like Twitter, with a very strong circulation of the adolescents and the young people.

"I would like to know if the phrase" And go the third and go the third and go the third and the purpose of River and the purpose of River would not be better separated by commas, that is, say: "And go the third, go the third, go the third, River goal and River goal"", A Twitter user viewed at this time.

The RAE replied, without the solemnity with which its historical image is badociated: "Indeed, between each repeated sentence must be written a comma: "And the third goes, and goes the third, and goes the third, and the purpose of the river, and the purpose of the river"Goal of the RAE, too.

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