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Among the unfinished purposes that have remained in the 30 years of EL MUNDO's journey, the defense and impulse of Spanish is among its foundations. A commitment that has been constant and conscious, and from which the intellectual commitment of this newspaper with culture is derived in large part.

At the gala this Tuesday, the Spanish language was also the protagonist. The writer and academic Arturo Pérez-Reverte has dedicated his speech to the responsibility of the media in the care and dissemination of our language, which covers almost 600 million speakers. Thus, in line with the motto of this 30th anniversary, The world is our language , articulated an intense text that is a kind of memory for its experience as a reader, author and, at the same time, an invitation to keep Spanish as That is: a living and expanding organism that has the coexistence of cultures as one of its heritage.

"For a writer, for a journalist (and not only for them, but also for anyone who needs to express or communicate), language, language, Spanish in our case, known as Spanish throughout the world, is more than a set or system of useful signs.It is a tool.And especially for those who make the act of communicating a duty or a trade, that tool should be as effective as possible: clear, clean, direct, precise, blunt, if necessary. And if it also maintains the beauty of the expression, the fairness of the term, the noble or plebeian, but secular, aroma of the other languages ​​that are conceived in it and made it as it is ... That is the treasure. "

But this requires attention and commitment. A language not only embraces the people who speak it, but also underpins an identity, a way of seeing the world, of facing it, of sharing it, of interpreting it. In that, cultural institutions and the media also have an intense field of action, said the author of Sidi , the most successful Spanish novel among the novelties of the season.

"Keeping an eye on our language, helping to keep it flexible, but also clear and effective, is an obligation for the media. An unavoidable obligation: that of caring (not only for moral, or aesthetic duty, but simply for self-defense, professional). tool that we need, we need, to be as effective as possible to perform our work well. "

Every language is everyone's place, mainly. A shared memory and an open source that each citizen makes his own, thus linking to others and undertaking the most fascinating of human expeditions in coexistence: communication.

Pérez-Reverte claims Spanish as something essential, "a tool". But a tool that, in our case, that of Spanish speakers, "is formidable, with a solid authority based on the past and an active modernity nourished by the present. With the constant certainty that that language, Spanish, is an extraordinary space common". Doing it even better depends on our commitment.

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