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18 Apr 1997

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Computer terminology has been causing controversy at the First International Congress on the Spanish Language, Reuters reports. Angel Martin Municio, vice director of the Royal Spanish Academy, attacked examples of Spanglish such as 'modem', 'mouse' and 'cliquear' - to click - as evidence of a poor education.

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