The massive wedding of the influencer Marta Lozano and the dentist Lorenzo Remohí, which brought together a large group of celebrities on the Alicante coast, has even given rise, on television, to a debate on the use of place names.
The table of talk show hosts of the program ‘It’s already noon’ on Telecinco commented on the link held in the municipality of Xàbia, when Rosa Benito, one of her collaborators, charged against the official name in Valencian of the well-known town.
“Look, it’s enough that all your life has been Jávea, Alicante, and that’s enough of so many ‘x’ everywhere,” snapped Benito after the report. “You say Xàbia and you don’t know where she is,” added the winner of Survivors 2011.
“I am from Alicante, Alacant no”, he defended in reference to his place of birth.
“We are in Spain, we are all going to talk so that we understand each other” and “I don’t care if they criticize me,” he replied to one of his fellow socialites, who warned him of what was to come on social networks, where his words have generated a lot of outrage.
“These are languages that are part of the richness of Spanish,” stressed the presenter of the space, Sonsóles Ónega, trying to calm things down. But Rocío Jurado’s sister-in-law did not give up and she pulled a personal anecdote: «My grandmother has spoken to me all my life in Valencian. My friends would come and I would tell her: ‘Yaya, don’t talk to them, they don’t understand you.’
“I understand languages and dialects perfectly, because when I was little they were dialects. But hey, Jávea has been all my life”, he insisted, while Ónega proposed holding a referendum in the newsroom to close the matter internally, as a ‘style book’, because “when saying Xàbia there are many people who do not know What is it”. “Maybe they think they are outside of Spain,” Benito concluded to settle his allegation.
