Tildar for good and other slips of declarative journalism

2024-05-07 20:40:33

A radio columnist said last Sunday that at an event during the independence movement“>Catalan electoral campaign, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero had “branded” Salvador Illa as a “leader who stabilizes Spain” and who is capable of “persuading” the independence movement. “Branded”, just as it is, just as I heard it, just as you read it.

Tildar, according to the third meaning of the Dictionary of the Academies, is “to point out someone with some denigrating note”, therefore it is incompatible with that praise that Zapatero gave to his socialist coreligionist Illa.