El diccionario
Alfredo Zitarrosa
The Dictionary
What bad luck those who would like it,
that man would be divided by language!
When man understands his interests
the planet shrinks and his language grows.
Don't tell me that in so many trips
I had problems with my message,
the most distant peoples in the landscape
dream, live, and fight in my language.
What bad luck those who would like it,
that the peoples of the world do not understand each other!
When in Chile fascism laughed in English
in Spanish more than one Frenchman cried.
Brave linguists of the dictionary
go gathering vocabulary
for the day will come, if necessary,
when an interplanetary language is spoken.
