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   XPost: soc.culture.scottish   
   From: ccaine@worldnet.att.net   
      
   "Féachadóir"  wrote in message   
   news:8pkmc3tk393pk2k0v9mebembfpjeh8jdur@4ax.com...   
   > 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.   
      
   Yep, that calculator in his pocket will allow him to do sums all the way up   
   to one............   
      
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