The RAE will analyze Pérez-Reverte’s criticisms with “rigor” and doesn’t rule out correcting working defects | Culture | EUROtoday

The Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) will proceed with “rigor” to the evaluation of the criticism made this Monday by the author and tutorial Arturo Pérez-Reverte, who has accused the establishment of bowing to exterior stress – to the political and media use of language – and of getting submitted to “lax and ambiguous regulations.” This is what sources from the RAE level out to Europa Press, who clarify that they’ve made a primary evaluation of Pérez-Reverte’s writing. “This is a personal and, of course, respectable opinion on some partial aspects of the Academy’s operation,” the identical sources level out.

Thus, they reveal that the evaluation of the criticisms it incorporates will likely be carried out “rigorously” with the administrators and specialists of the departments involved. “The Plenary Session of the RAE will verify whether it has the support of any other academic, the scope and reality of the data on which it is based and, where appropriate, it will propose the appropriate measures to urgently correct, to the extent possible, the operational defects that the academic Pérez-Reverte has made public,” they point out. “It will begin to debate them immediately and it is expected that the academic will be able to present and defend his proposals in the plenary session of the institution,” they are saying.

The aforementioned criticisms occurred this Monday in an article revealed within the newspaper The World, during which the author has denounced that the voice of educational writers who by nature are creators, staff and language specialists, “barely counts today in the RAE.” “Many of them, living or recently deceased, have pointed out errors, impoverishments and trivializations of the language, only to see how the now dominant sector in the Academy – the Taliban of all things – ignores them or treats them as respectable, but irrelevant opinions,” he indicated.

Likewise, he has acknowledged “important achievements” to the director of the RAE, Santiago Muñoz Machado, akin to “economic salvation”, though he has denounced that the “historical link and mutual respect” between literary creation and linguistic method has been damaged. The creator, who has been a member of the RAE since 2003, thus assaults Muñoz Machado whereas highlighting that the earlier administrators of the establishment (together with Darío Villanueva, the penultimate one) maintained an “exquisite and useful balance between linguists and creators,” though “today the opposite is true.” “The fait accompli usually prevails,” he says.

“Now, unfortunately, the core of linguists to whom the current leadership entrusts the decisions, handles carelessly written journalistic headlines or massive uses on social networks as normative justification, naturally and with hardly any control, even though these contradict long-established syntactic, semantic or stylistic principles,” he says.