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   From: doctor@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca   
      
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   Charles Hope   wrote:   
   >On 02/01/2026 17:57, 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.   
   >>   
   >> 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.   
   >>   
   >I know a Gaelic speaker living on the isle of Lewis Apparently her dog   
   >is bi-lingual = she talks to it in Gaelic, but the neighbour who looks   
   >after the dog when she's away on;y speaks English.   
   >   
      
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