XPost: soc.culture.welsh, soc.culture.cornish, soc.culture.irish   
   XPost: soc.culture.scottish   
   From: coryvreckan@NO_SPAM.verizon.net   
      
   The Highlander wrote:   
   > 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.   
      
   That'll teach her!   
      
   >   
   >   
   > 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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