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   walker@btinternet.com to allan connochie   
   Re: common celtic language creation   
   30 Mar 07 11:34:11   
   
   I yoost t' git Connochi mixed up with Connerly but I think I have got the   
   hang of Allan's patronym now.   
   "allan connochie"  wrote in message   
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   >> Scríobh "gunananda" :   
   >>>have there been attempts to create a common celtic language which is   
   >>>easy to learn   
   >>>and directly understandable for speakers of scottish gaelic, irish and   
   >>>welsh and   
   >>>which is based on the concepts of basic english so that even non-   
   >>>native speakers   
   >>>of celtic languages can easily acquire it ?   
   >>   
   >> (a) No.   
   >>   
   >> (b) The assumption that all non-native speakers of Celtic languages   
   >> understand English is interesting.   
   >>   
   >> (c) Why would anyone want to create a P/Q hybrid based on "concepts of   
   >> basic English"?   
   >>   
   >> (d) OTOH you could always try your hand at Gaelglish.   
   >> See http://homepage.eircom.net/~abardubh/gaelglish/   
   >>   
   >>>i would like to create something, but i have little or no experience   
   >>>and i think ,   
   >>>it would be better if it would be created by speakers of those   
   >>>languages themselves.   
   >>   
   >> Why?   
   >   
   >   
   > Quite! I agree with you. What would be the sense of creating such a thing?   
   > If speakers of for instance, Welsh and Scottish Gaelic, want to   
   > cumminucate with each other then they would just about always use English   
   > to do so. Why make up some kind of hybrid Welsh/Gaelic/English language?   
   > One of the daftest ideas I've heard :-)   
   >   
   > Allan   
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