XPost: soc.culture.welsh, soc.culture.cornish, soc.culture.irish   
   XPost: soc.culture.scottish   
   From: micheil@shaw.ca   
      
   On Fri, 31 Aug 2007 22:06:07 GMT, "Chess One"    
   wrote:   
      
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   >"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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   >> Allan   
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   There's a Scots word for this - haivers!   
      
   Ye're awa wi thi faeries, laddie! Awa hame an gang tae yer beid!   
      
   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)