'Rapa' or why are our tongues so scary

Of all the things I know to be inaccurate in

, none crinkles my nose more than Karen Blixen and her husband Bror, both Danish, speaking to each other in English with a Scandinavian accent.

I imagine that if Pollack had asked them if they would dare to shoot their brief encounters in Danish, Meryl Streep and Klaus Maria Brandauer would have agreed with a “hold my

”.

But it was years before

discovered to Hollywood that viewers were willing to do something as subversive as reading subtitles and we were left with the fact that two Danes in the privacy of their home prefer to speak to each other in English.

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The same strangeness causes me to listen to the characters of

, residents of a Coruña parish, speaking at all times a very correct Castilian, barely varnished by a slight accent.

In the Movistar series nobody says a word in Galician.

Neither in the cities nor in the villages, neither in institutions nor in privacy.

They all express themselves in a Castilian Spanish that will thrill those who say Sanjenjo, Lérida and Vascongadas.

Four years ago,

was applauded for naturally showing habitual expressions of the land.

The

or

slipped into the dialogues without anyone having to go to the Royal Galician Academy to follow the thread.

Then they came to Netflix

and HBO Max

and confirmed that Galicia, in addition to being a beautiful set, hid a treasure to be discovered: its language.

In

they have preferred to ignore that heritage and we all lose.

They in credibility and us in lexical richness.

We are left with another treasure as consolation, some exceptional performances by the entire cast, especially Lucía Veiga.

Her portentous work seems like a thing for witches.

Or as they would say in

, of witches.

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