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   XPost: soc.culture.scottish   
   From: innes8@verizon.net   
      
   "allan connochie"  wrote in message   
   news:IhLxi.11236$mZ5.7031@newsfe6-win.ntli.net...   
      
   > It just seems to show more of his general lack of knowledge about   
   > Scotland. Even from Soutra Hill in the Borders you can look over the   
   > Lothians and Fife and see over 50 Highland peaks. We live in such a small   
   > country that no matter where we are we aren't far from the Highlands.   
   > Likewise some foreigner   
      
   hey - to whom is this braggadocio low-talk indicating? anyone who lived   
   there, or is it the boast of the vulgar tourist?   
      
   >crowing on about being a Highlander because of his supposed ancestry   
   >doesn't mean anything either. Can there be many Scots who haven't got some   
   >Highland ancestry somewhere along the line?   :-)   
      
   another suppositional statement presuming to reinforce a doubt based on a   
   lack of direct experience of living in the country?   
      
       typical of non-highland attitude! entirely so! there is no dispute here   
   except that of living experience against romancing and recieved tourism!   
   Scotland the Wa.... !????   
      
   there is another realm to these suppositonal postures, Sir, and you dinna   
   ken it. so you must protest it! what else can you do to make such noise   
   about what you don't know?   
      
   you ask nothing directly of how it is, have no experience of it, and you are   
   the same as those who would write of history based on politics, which has   
   caused a havoc in Ireland - since the people there prefer a history based on   
   people's experience   
      
   that has been the evil which suppressed the celts, and the wormtongues who   
   continue the triumphing noises of those who know not what they destroyed,   
   and care not a single honest question   
      
   Phil Innes   
      
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