XPost: soc.culture.welsh, soc.culture.cornish, soc.culture.irish   
   XPost: soc.culture.scottish   
   From: Féach@d.óir   
      
   Scríobh "Westprog" :   
   >Féachadóir wrote:   
   >   
   >>> 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.   
   >   
   >And that experience is something which is almost never carried over to the   
   >English speakers. To them, the language is associated with punishment and   
   >coercion.   
      
   Indeed. Well too I remember the pain of being forced to study   
   arithmetic, when I had a perfectly capable calculator in my pocket. I   
   still can't look at a sum.   
      
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