Re: The Truth is out about the Irish, Welsh, Scotch, Mamx, Cornish, and Bretons

"Cory Bhreckan" <coryvreckan@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> The Highlander wrote:
>> On Mon, 5 Mar 2007 08:18:50 -0000, "Westprog" <westprog@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> wrote:
>>
>>> "allan connochie" <allan@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>> ...
>>>>>>>>> On a pro rate population basis, I'll wager that more
>>>>>>>>> Spaniards, Italians, ****tuguese, Greeks and Poles
>>>>>>>>> have attempted to learn to speak a second language
>>>>>>>>> compared to the English !
>>>>>>> Why say English here? Why not say British?
>>>>>> Why ask me? I didn't write that:-)
>>>>> What's your best guess?
>>>> Well looking back on the thread immediately before the post in
question 
>>>> it
>>>> was specifically referring to the English. Saying that I don't think 
>>>> the
>>>> Scots or Welsh are in reality likely to be any better at languages.
>>> Given the groups this is posted to, it seems that it was just a way to

>>> have
>>> a go at the English. In this case, it was pointless.
>>
>> Get a grip for Christ's sake!
>>
>> Many Welsh and Highland children's first language is Welsh or Gaelic.
>> They don't learn English until they go to school.
>>
>> The Irish of course, far from establi****ng a Celtic nation, have
>> simply caved in to England by using English instead of Gaeilge.
>>
>> My best non-British language is French and I have never had a problem
>> in France that someone wasn't happy to leap forward and sort out for
>> me. Going to a country with a different language and not learning some
>> basic words is not only arrogant; it's stupid. I have never forgotten
>> an Italian woman in London who died in a fire because all she could do
>> was shout "Aiuto!" (Help! in Italian) and as nobody understood, nobody
>> came to rescue her. Her ignorance cost her her life.
>
> That'll teach her!
>
At'll learn her!
>>
>> The Highlander
>>
>> Faodaidh nach ionann na beachdan anns
>> an post seo agus beachdan a' Ghàidheil.
>> The views expressed in this post are  not necessarily those of The 
>> Highlander.
>
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