Re: History of the Breton Language

On Wed, 2 Nov 2005 00:19:04 +1300, "Adam Whyte-Settlar"
<grawillers@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

>
>"fred" <f5r4e3d@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message .
>>
>> Perhaps you might ask YOURSELF why this tendency to regard monoglotism
>> as either an acceptable or desirable or inevitable condition seems,
>> from your own posts, to pervade your own mind?
>
>I'd forgotten this.
>Just popped back in to let you know I speak 2 languages apart from
English
>and have about a a couple of hundred words in about 5 or 6 more,
including
>'minority' Berber and Maori.
>
>> the
>> richness and uniqueness of more localized or minority languages is
>> lost.
>
>You presume that localised languages are 'rich'.
>Most are not.
>English, Russian and Spanish are rich (for a few examples) whereas many
of
>the hundreds of languages still spoken on PNG (for example) are limited,
>basic and primitive. They are useless in the 20th century and most of the
>speakers would prefer to speak English.
>
>A W-S
>
>
Spoken like a true English White Settler.

Really, one of your more sickeningly inaccurate statements. - a lack
of serious intellectual background is revealed by this remark - it
reeks of a degree in Hair Styling from the U of Es***....

Murchadh