XPost: soc.culture.irish, soc.culture.scottish, soc.culture.british   
   XPost: uk.politics.misc   
   From: ciaran@ciaran.com   
      
   Ciaran wrote:   
   > mothed out wrote:   
   >> Ciaran wrote:   
   >>> allan connochie wrote:   
   >>>> "Ciaran"  wrote in message   
   >>>> news:45B1C91D.8080500@ciaran.com...   
   >>>>> The Highlander wrote:   
   >>>>>> On 18 Jan 2007 12:13:48 -0800, "scally"    
   >>>>> "That is how we feel about Scottish Gaelic. We have to fight for it   
   >>>>> again.   
   >>>>> A tremendous blow was inflicted on the Gaelic language and culture at   
   >>>>> Culloden and the Highland Clearances. The language and culture were   
   >>>>> devastated.   
   >>>> Actually no the language wasn't devastated by Culloden. The   
   >>>> population of   
   >>>> the Highlands and hence the actual number of Gaelic speakers rose   
   >>>> sharply in   
   >>>> the century after Culloden. Likewise even after the period commonly   
   >>>> called   
   >>>> The Clearances the language was still very strong. A more significant   
   >>>> turning point may well have been in the 1880s when the Education Act   
   >>>> insisted that English was the to be the language of education and   
   >>>> supposed   
   >>>> furtherment. Gaelic in the end was totally excluded for a short   
   >>>> period only   
   >>>> (unlike Scots which was virtually excluded for a century) and the   
   >>>> authorities (by authorities I mean Scottish) realised total   
   >>>> exclusion was   
   >>>> impracticle. It was let back into the system but remained greatly   
   >>>> neglected   
   >>>> and in reality discouraged. Hence many Gaels themselves gradually   
   >>>> threw off   
   >>>> their own language (just as many Lowlanders discarded Scots) because   
   >>>> of the   
   >>>> lure of English combined with the neglect and low esteem the   
   >>>> authorities   
   >>>> gave to the traditional languages of Scotland.   
   >>>>   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Allan   
   >>>>   
   >>>>   
   >>> So the crime of more recent origin - all the more reason for just   
   >>> compensation for the wrongs done to the Scots.   
   >>   
   >> You also must pay rent, compensation, and apologise for your failure to   
   >> learn the native aboriginal languages of the people whose lands and   
   >> resources you are taking advantage of through your occupation of, also   
   >> you are failing to use newsgroups (and therefore I expect, failing in   
   >> other areas of your life) to advocate full political independence and   
   >> compensation for the native australian people whose language you and   
   >> your fellows have failed to learn. FULL political independence   
   >> (i.e.complete dissolution of the Australian state) for native   
   >> australian territories, starting with Arnhemland, but continuing to all   
   >> the other native Australian territories is the minimum political goal   
   >> which you should be actively advocating (but have absolutely failed to   
   >> do in your posting record) in consistency with the political principles   
   >> you are espousing for Cornwall and other places.   
   >>   
   >   
   > BTW:   
   >   
   > My favourite radio station in Sydney, Australia is Koori Radio - have a   
   > listen for the latest about the nations:   
   >   
   > http://www.gadigal.org.au/   
   >   
   > ..and yes, there are many excellent government-funded language programs   
   > run by people from the nations. Started with languages like Walbiri in   
   > the early 70's and has progressed to the eastern seaboard with   
   > Bundjalung - go to the NSW town of Walgett to see a successful attempt   
   > to revive a dying language and the kids of European descent learn it too.   
   >   
   > I know some Walbiri plus my local language.   
      
   Naka nunku nyanyi.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)