XPost: soc.culture.welsh, soc.culture.cornish, soc.culture.irish   
   XPost: soc.culture.scottish   
   From: Féach@d.óir   
      
   Scríobh "Westprog" :   
   >Féachadóir wrote:   
   >...   
   >>>>> It doesn't change my original belief, based on informal   
   >>>>> observation, that written Scots is used for novels, poetry and   
   >>>>> local matters. It isn't used for physics textbooks, bus   
   >>>>> timetables, or tax forms. And the Irish experience IMO indicates   
   >>>>> that associating a language with every topic of misery, boredom   
   >>>>> and the government doesn't for some reason lead to its popularity.   
   >   
   >>>> Language deserves to be spoken, not studied by academics in   
   >>>> dusty archives.   
   >   
   >>> I think that's the point I was making.   
   >   
   >> Yet it seems you don't get why the written language would be an   
   >> important part of that process.   
   >   
   >I have the idea that when most people encounter the language as something   
   >tedious and threatening, they fail to develop an affection for it. The   
   >people in Donegal who use it to chat to their friends don't have that   
   >experience. Nor do the users of Scots.   
      
   True. Sometimes there's sympathy for the battered students, sometimes   
   annoyance at the unconscious and patronising hostility of the   
   galltacht. Mostly though, there's the weather, Keano's latest transfer   
   bids and Corro to discuss.   
      
   --   
   'Donegal:  Up Here It's Different'   
   © Féachadóir   
      
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