The speech of the king of Spain: the highlights and the "blooper" of Borges

The speech of King Felipe of Spain, one of the most anticipated of the opening of the International Congress of Language, articulated around the double language that made language common in the field cultural production and knowledge throughout the Ibero-American region, with references to Córdoba, Argentine cultural production and some of the greatest literary representatives.

Here are some highlights:

• "We must salute your glorious university, founded at the headquarters of our university in Salamanca, which has just celebrated its eighth centenary." The National University of Cordoba is known worldwide for its efforts to meet the demands of the world, adapting the fundamental principles of freedom of thought and new social horizons, we wish you, in this line "Live, grow and s & # 39; 39 "flourish", like all universities in the province of Cordoba, to renew day by day the academic tradition and to justify the naming of your capital. "
• "480 million people have Spanish as their mother tongue, we know their long history of which one of the most delicate moments was undoubtedly that of the independence of the territories of additionally -sea." The voice of Don Andres Bello, whom José Martí described as "the best of our people", was enough to remind us that this language was as typical of America as of Spain.
• "Paradoxically, the Spaniards were to experience their greatest expansion with the birth and consolidation of the young American republics, which found in him the indispensable instrument of the internal cohesion of each community and the reinforcement of the bonds that unite them."
• "During several sessions of the congress, attention will be paid to the exceptional cultural production of Argentina and, in the more than two hundred popular events programmed by the province and the municipality, the richness of folklore and culture. 39, Argentine art, and especially Cordoba, as part of a brilliant word festival ".

"José Luis Borges"

Separate paragraph for foolishness of the speech, in which he had to mention (and so it was written in the original to which he had access The voice) to Jorge Luis Borges. The king mispronounced the name of the Argentine writer and the networks were billed almost instantly.

"Your José Luis Borges – ours too, for the universal left – writes that" language is not only an instrument of expression and communication, but a tradition and a destiny. "Many peoples have come to these Pampean lands over the course of the itinerant centuries, each with its own language."