XPost: rec.arts.drwho, alt.usage.english   
   From: doctor@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca   
      
   In article <10jap2e$156ch$1@dont-email.me>,   
   Daniel70   wrote:   
   >On 3/01/2026 7:53 am, Your Name wrote:   
   >> On 2026-01-02 17:57:07 +0000, Hibou said:   
   >>> 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.   
   >>   
   >> The Maroi language here in New Zealand adds words, but often they're   
   >> simply "pigeon-English"-like reworking of the English word. For example,   
   >> the Maori word for a car is simply "motoka" (i.e. a corruption of   
   >> "motorcar").  :-\   
   >>   
   >> As usual these days, there is all sorts of politicall correctness   
   >> stupidity about trying to "save" the Maori language by having street   
   >> signs in both languages, ranaming government departments (twice - first   
   >> time to put the Maori version first, and again to put it second),   
   >> forcing kids to learn Maori in school, etc. The reality is that it's a   
   >> dying language for a reason, and even most Maori cannot and have no   
   >> interest in speaking it.   
   >>   
   >Here, in Australia, there are something like 500 Aboriginal Nations, so   
   >I'm guessing there are at least that many languages. And as the original   
   >tribes were nomadic, there has probably been a lot of intermingling ....   
   >of people AND languages.   
      
   So in Aus, there is English and the Aboribinal languages.   
      
   We saw thi is in DW - 4 to Doomsday.   
      
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   >Daniel70   
      
      
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