Topsy-turvy

While recent discussions on the Spanish list Cadius indicate that the Spanish Royal Langage Academy (RAE) has refused to recognise the term 'usabilidad' (usability), with the consequence that it cannot be used in the titles of theses, the Spanish newspaper El Mundo reports that the Spanish Standards Association AENOR and other organisations have set up a formal standards committee to clarify the exact meaning of the term 'Ciudad Digital' or digital city. Apparently the committee will spend a couple of years deliberating over the conditions that have to be met by a locality to comply with what AENOR refers to as a "clearly Spanish standard".

It's a topsy-turvy old world...