The streets of Córdoba, for and against the Congress of the language

during VIIIth International Language Congress (CILE) walk the streets of downtown Córdoba It's become dangerous. There are few who, when they reach the edge of the cord, come up against a sentence they did not expect and dislocate, just before facing the avenue.

"I have to learn how to fly among so many people standing," says a graffiti on a corner near the Paseo del Buen Pastor, and in the head of an employee of thirty-one sounds "Song for the days of life" of Juan Alberto Spinetta. Maybe that day he will arrive home and listen to the song that reminded him of the asphalt, before a horn brings him back to an avenue New Córdoba.

The sentences are the product of the call "Towards the step", who led the Cultural Center Spain Córdoba with the Municipality of Córdoba, inspired by an initiative born in Madrid. More than 1000 phrases from across the country. And during the festival of speech and CILE, 100 appeared on the streets.

The organizers of the convocation pointed out that the idea was invite literary creation and encourage original production and read in Cordoba. The sentences came from all over Argentina to take the streets of Córdoba.

The cities of Cordoba Mendiolaza, Hernando, Jesús María, Arroyito, Segundo River, Vicuña Mackena, Oliva, Alta Gracia, Caroya Settlement, Villa Carlos Paz, Devotee, Ticino, Villa del Rosario and Pilar they are present in the sentences. Also from other provinces like Between rivers, currents, Santa Fe or missions.

In the street Language Congress This is felt. It is almost impossible that one way or another, even without getting close to the Teatro del Libertador General San Martín, main venue of the event, we do not know what is happening in the city. "However?", a neighbor wondered Thursday of this week, looking with eyes half-closed the vast police barrier lost in the depths of the Av. Vélez Sarsfield.

But because the street belongs to everyone and in the street they play the senses, messages have also appeared less literary, but not for that reason less creative, to put into perspective issues that, without being named, also spoke about Congress of the language.

"1st International Congress of the epiglottis and its surroundings", has been read in several posters around the San Martín, ironically evoking the cartilaginous plate that closes the larynx and precedes the tongue. And he added: "The epiglottis is before the language and the comechingones before the Spaniards". The message is clear, even if it refers to originating peoples of which he speaks – the henisa and the kamari – of the name which their conquerors gave them.

The presence of the kings of Spain, Felipe VI and Letizia OrtizCórdoba, in the province, was a historic event that opened the game in the form of self-adhesive allusions to the the conquest, wing taxation of a foreign culture in the region, at the extinction of his own

Accompanied the monarchs at the inauguration of the Congress President Mauricio Macri. They saw each other events in the most anticipated street in an election year. Posters and graffiti, with the presence of various social movements, the security operation around the San Martín Theater kept out of the way.

Phrases, posters, graffiti, on footpaths, on lights, they fill the urban landscape with messages. They do not face, they coexist. While theoreticians, intellectuals, journalists, locked themselves up to debate speech, "we come to learn how to live with others", says the corner of Av. Arturo Illia and Independencia. "See how much poetry around us", reflects another. Not far from there, a street is talking about love: "Prepare the richest fernet".