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   From: allan@EASYNET.CO.UK   
      
   "Ciaran"  wrote in message   
   news:45B3C103.7090609@ciaran.com...   
   > allan connochie wrote:   
   >> "Ciaran"  wrote in message   
   >> news:45B3893B.30403@ciaran.com...   
   >>> allan connochie wrote:   
   >>>> "Ciaran"  wrote in message   
   >>>> news:45B29F21.5030605@ciaran.com...   
   >> So you aren't going to answer my questions then?   
   >>   
   >> Anyway what bit would I have wanted to snip out? I wasn't referring to   
   >> the political situation and besides I already vote SNP and have done so   
   >> for more years than I like to think - but that is not the point. I'm just   
   >> a sucker for facts. I commented that your assertion that after Culloden   
   >> and the Clearances the Gaelic language was devastated. That is simply not   
   >> true! The number of Gaels within Scotland shot up after the 45 rebellion.   
   >> There was a massive population explosion. Even for the bulk of the   
   >> Clearances period the total population was still rising rapidly and the   
   >> Gaelic language was still very much alive and kicking well into the   
   >> second half of the 19thC. The great slump in speakers was a later   
   >> phenomena.   
   >>   
   >> Allan   
   >   
   > They were just silly questions in the context.   
      
   No they were very precise questions. You suggested that compensation should   
   be paid to the Scots because of the demise of Gaelic. Why should it be paid?   
   Who should pay it? And who should it be paid to?   
      
   Allan   
      
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