XPost: soc.culture.welsh, soc.culture.cornish, soc.culture.irish
XPost: soc.culture.scottish
From: micheil@shaw.ca
On Mon, 5 Mar 2007 08:18:50 -0000, "Westprog"
wrote:
>
>"allan connochie" wrote in message
>news:45eca6a9@news.greennet.net...
>...
>> >> >> > On a pro rate population basis, I'll wager that more
>> >> >> > Spaniards, Italians, Portuguese, Greeks and Poles
>> >> >> > have attempted to learn to speak a second language
>> >> >> > compared to the English !
>
>> >> > Why say English here? Why not say British?
>
>> >> Why ask me? I didn't write that:-)
>
>> > What's your best guess?
>
>> Well looking back on the thread immediately before the post in question it
>> was specifically referring to the English. Saying that I don't think the
>> Scots or Welsh are in reality likely to be any better at languages.
>
>Given the groups this is posted to, it seems that it was just a way to have
>a go at the English. In this case, it was pointless.
Get a grip for Christ's sake!
Many Welsh and Highland children's first language is Welsh or Gaelic.
They don't learn English until they go to school.
The Irish of course, far from establishing a Celtic nation, have
simply caved in to England by using English instead of Gaeilge.
My best non-British language is French and I have never had a problem
in France that someone wasn't happy to leap forward and sort out for
me.
Going to a country with a different language and not learning some
basic words is not only arrogant; it's stupid. I have never forgotten
an Italian woman in London who died in a fire because all she could do
was shout "Aiuto!" (Help! in Italian) and as nobody understood, nobody
came to rescue her. Her ignorance cost her her life.
The Highlander
Faodaidh nach ionann na beachdan anns
an post seo agus beachdan a' Ghàidheil.
The views expressed in this post are
not necessarily those of The Highlander.
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