XPost: soc.culture.welsh, soc.culture.cornish, soc.culture.irish   
   XPost: soc.culture.scottish   
   From: micheil@shaw.ca   
      
   On Tue, 21 Aug 2007 22:26:53 +0100, "Westprog"    
   wrote:   
      
   >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.   
   >   
   >I believe you still occasionally have use for your arithmetic skills, and a   
   >vague sense that they were imparted for your benefit, not to suit a   
   >maths-using minority.   
      
   This argument is becoming futile.  You were probably taught to speak   
   dialect-free English to suit a small minority in London.   
      
   The Highlander   
   Tilgibh smucaid air do làmhan,   
   togaibh a' bhratach dhubh agus   
   toisichibh a' geàrradh na sgòrnanan!   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)