No, it’s not him Messenger of a cani in the 2000s “, as a ForoCoches user says. It is Ladino or Judeo-Spanish, a language derived from Spanish spoken by Sephardic Jews. And in that language that survives through the centuries, more than 500 years after the expulsion of the Hebrews from Spain, the viral tweet of the Embassy of Spain in Turkey, which everyone talks about.
“Kind friends and friends of the Sefaradi Community. For me it is a great honor and a privilege to be able to address myself to others in such an important date as that of oy. Devesh de saver ke shows both each is yours and we are at your disposal for what you need ”, it reads.
Kind friends and friends of the Sefaradi Community. For me it is a great honor and a privilege to be able to address myself to others in such an important date as that of oy.
Devesh de saver ke shows both each is yours and we are at your disposal for what you need.#Ladino– Spain in Turkey (@EmbEspTurquia) February 21, 2021
The message, published yesterday on Ladino’s Day, pays tribute in their language to a very notable community in Turkey, since 96% of the 15,000 Jews residing in that country are Sephardim, descendants of those expelled in 1492 who arrived on boats to Edirne, capital until 1453 of the Ottoman Empire.
We will know that the doors are always open and I hope that in the future it will be known when the pandemic escapes, we will be able to have even more shortcuts that we will join.
Many thanks.@sefaraditurkey@ICEstambul@SepharadIsrael– Spain in Turkey (@EmbEspTurquia) February 21, 2021
Despite the beauty of the tribute, many users of social networks made fun of the messages, thinking that it was misspelled. “For this you have to study a diplomatic career?”, “Are you drunk writing like that, right? I can’t find another explanation ”,“ I vusco hofertas for a hairy guy, thank you ”, are some of the little-documented responses of some of them.
However, another legion of tweeters began to explain why this way of writing, a history and brotherhood lesson for those who want to open their mind a little …
Ladino is a love story of the Sephardic Jew to a land that unjustly expelled them and that they kept alive through their language and culture. A love for an idealized homeland perhaps, but a respect that many Spaniards are unaware of and ignore and that it is time to recognize pic.twitter.com/6doZms98yO
– Planet Istanbul (@PlanetaEstambul) February 21, 2021
What a shame of responses to such a beautiful, neat and almost hair-raising tweet. Tremendous damage from ESO to the culture of this country. And so it goes
– K 🏳️🌈 (@nikosillo) February 21, 2021