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The Uruguayan Academy of Letters attacks the Football Federation (FA) for having disqualified Edinson Cavani for three rounds, plus a fine of 110,000 euros, guilty of having responded with a “Thank you, negrito!” to a friend in an Instagram story. The FA considered certain words offensive, inappropriate and racist and the apology of the player, who had deleted the publication, was useless. However, the Linguistic Academy of Uruguay came to the rescue of the Bullfighter, emphasizing: “Here the word ‘negro’ and its diminutive ‘negrito’ as well as gordo (fatty) and its diminutive gordito, or como flaco (lean) are commonly used as a joke or as a sign of affection between friends. In Spanish that It is spoken in Uruguay, for example, we call ourselves that between father and son, or between friends, and it is normal to hear words like chubby, black, black … And they do not necessarily refer to a fat or fat person with dark skin ” . The Academy thus points the finger at the FA: “The English Football Association has committed a grave injustice to a Uruguayan athlete of the highest international level and has exposed his ignorance about the uses of the language and in particular of Spanish, without take account of all your c
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