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   From: vpaereru-unmonitored@yahoo.com.invalid   
      
   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.   
      
   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.   
      
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