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   From: doctor@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca   
      
   In article <10jaq83$15f09$1@dont-email.me>,   
   Daniel70   wrote:   
   >On 3/01/2026 11:32 am, The Doctor wrote:   
   >> In article <10j9eb6$p43o$1@dont-email.me>, Peter Moylan   
   >>  wrote:   
   >>> On 03/01/26 04:57, Hibou wrote:   
   >>>> Le 02/01/2026 à  15:37, The Doctor a écrit :   
   >>>>> Hibou wrote:   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>> [...] We native English speakers are lucky people.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> Exactly!   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> Still how are the Scots doing to preserve Scottish Gaelic?   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Badly:   
   >>>>   
   >>>>    
   >>>>   
   > >>> There's no percentage scale there, but Gaelic speakers are currently   
   >>>> about 1% of the population - and there's a question about how   
   >>>> well they speak it. No-one in Scotland speaks Gaelic but not   
   >>>> English.   
   >>>   
   >>> In that respect, Irish is worse off than  Scots Gaelic. The native   
   >>> speakers live in little corners of the country.   
   >>>   
   >>>> It is essentially impossible to preserve a language like Gaelic.   
   >>>> If it's to handle all aspects of modern life, then it must   
   >>>> acquire a mass of new words, and its nature changes. If one   
   >>>> rejects that course and seeks to preserve it as is, then it   
   >>>> becomes limited and obsolete.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> IMHO, it's no use being able to say, "Put some more peat on the   
   >>>> fire, Donald" in Gaelic, and then having to resort to English to   
   >>>> discuss Morag's doomscrolling on Facebook.   
   >>>   
   >>> That doesn't have to be a problem. I've just been learning some   
   >>> computer-related terms in Irish. The words -- e.g. riomhaire for   
   >>> computer -- have the look and feel of native Irish words.   
   >>> Occasionally you see a word that looks similar to English -- e.g.   
   >>> idirlión for internet -- but overall the language is handling the   
   >>> new concepts without introducing a pidgin.   
   >>>   
   >>> The real problem is that the English language so dominates the   
   >>> society that you can't function properly -- get a job, do the   
   >>> shopping, etc. -- unless you're fluent in English. That's also the   
   >>> problem for minority languages in other countries.   
   >>   
   >> Irish at least offers language classes.   
   >   
   >So why don't you take some classes, Binky(Word used by paedophiles to   
   >indicate their joy of child sexual molestation). At least then you might be   
   >able to communicate in one language, at least, Binky(Word used by paedophiles   
   >to indicate their joy of child sexual molestation ).   
   >--   
   >Daniel70   
      
      
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