Is Catalan a macrolanguage?

Saluts, Emmanuel.

Decidèri de m'installar en Provença perqué soi fisician nucleari e trobèri trabalh a Cadaracha. A l'ora d'ara soi dins los afars: voliáu pas atrapar un cancèr.

Conèissi fòrça plan gairebén tota l'Occitania. Dins la Provènça maritima, malurosament, a disapariscut, l'ai entendut parlar tres o quatre fes per carrièra... mas "il ne faut jurer de rien". I a pla de joines interessats per la lenga dels ancèstres. A d'autres luòcs, per exemple la Gasconha, los Aups, de pòt ausir encara l'occitan. Per còntra, dins las valadas occitanas piemontesas l'occitan demòra ben vivent.

Ya ves, pues, Emmanuel: no soy (como parece indicar el señor Franco) un "espécimen humano inferior" por proceder de una mezcla de etnias (a la que hay que añadir la galesa, ya que una parte de mi familia es galesa, de la zona argentina del Chubut).

Si Franco es, como me imagino, español, seguro que tiene una ascendencia mora... lo que para mí no resulta malo en absoluto, aunque para él debe ser un drama que oculta.

En fin, Emmanuel, es verdad que esto está lleno de trolls, pero eso no me preocupa: como decía mi connacional el cómico Luís Sandrini, "a palabras electrizantes, oídos desconectados". Y si alguien se muestra agresivo y ofensivo, aplica la recomendación que me enseñaron en la escuela:

"Si un burro te da una coz,
no la devuelvas jamás,
pero huye, huye veloz
para que no te dé mas."

Of course you are not an 'inferior human specimen'! I actually admire the fact your ancestry is so culturally diverse, as it makes one more interesting and open-minded. Besides, almost every culture arises from the ashes of another one that preceded it, so there is nothing more 'genuine' or 'pure' about one person to the next. I had read an article--I do not recall where exactly--that had mentioned language plays an important role in the way a person thinks. Furthermore, when an ethnic group defends their culture, the most important thing they base their argument on is language. Look at Catalan's situation--although the varieties spoken in Catalonia, Valencia, et cetera, are linguistically the same language, it would be an 'attack' on Valencian culture calling it 'Catalan'. (Imagine calling a Valencian a Catalan!) It may be the same situation for Croatian and Serbian.

Anyhow, I am glad you decided to learn Occitan; it is a very beautiful language, in my opinion. I wish there were some way to learn it, but seeing that I live abroad, there is not much resources I can work with--ha, ha. From my viewpoint, you seem realy proficient in the language, so expect a little jealousy on my part. :) Do you like your current job?

Anyhow, my ancestry is also part Spanish, the other half Italian, but if I have a Moor in my family tree, so be it. There is nothing a human can do about it but cherish it. Besides, some genetic tests in some Scottish town revealed the local residents, who have lived there for who knows how long, also had some traces of 'African' DNA. So who's pure and who's not? I do not believe in the 'purity' of blood or ancestry. Just a bunch of bollocks, in my opinion.

Sorry I did not respond in any other language, but my Spanish is not so good. :'(

Este tío es Mallorquí, y ni es argentino, ni fisico nuclear, ni vive en Marsella, ni tiene ancestros griegos, ni galeses ni nada que se le parezca. Este tiene más fantasía que Antoñita la fantástica.

"This article makes the case for Catalan as a macrolanguage. It divides Catalan into 3 languages:

Rousillonese (French Catalan)
Algherese (spoken on Sardinia)
Catalan Proper "

Why hell is catalan can be considered in this forum like an "occitan language" ? I never see this theory in any linguistic book. Even in Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Romance_20c_en.png).