Bairnardo Posted June 17, 2019 Share Posted June 17, 2019 D' Fhinnein.Potential big team found but not sure tbh. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ira Gaines Posted June 17, 2019 Share Posted June 17, 2019 Stunning to see Granny do a runner from this. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Granny Danger Posted June 17, 2019 Author Share Posted June 17, 2019 11 minutes ago, Principal Flutie said: Stunning to see Granny do a runner from this. Not doing a runner, simply don’t see the point in repeating myself. I will add this however as a final note. If I was asked to list the things that I saw as important for Scotland the promotion of Gaelic wouldn’t make the top one hundred, probably not even the top one thousand. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BawWatchin Posted June 17, 2019 Share Posted June 17, 2019 13 minutes ago, Granny Danger said: Not doing a runner, simply don’t see the point in repeating myself. I will add this however as a final note. If I was asked to list the things that I saw as important for Scotland the promotion of Gaelic wouldn’t make the top one hundred, probably not even the top one thousand. Who cares. Not everything we do needs to be urgently important and even although I don’t understand a word of Gaelic and probably never will. I take great delight in knowing that it’s printed on there anyway as it only winds up people that I probably wouldn’t like anyway. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colkitto Posted June 17, 2019 Share Posted June 17, 2019 I predict 5 to 10 years after independence day all schools will be teaching Gaelic - and rightly so. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Granny Danger Posted June 17, 2019 Author Share Posted June 17, 2019 42 minutes ago, MixuFixit said: Please list these one thousand other things seeing as you've given this so much thought. You go first. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Granny Danger Posted June 17, 2019 Author Share Posted June 17, 2019 8 minutes ago, MixuFixit said: Why? I never said there was 1000 things that are more important than giving Gaelic a modicum of daily attention after centuries of persecution. Maybe not but I am as interested in your top 1,000 priorities are you apparently are in mine. PS I’m not really. PPS I do find it strange (and slightly amusing) that not voicing full blooded support for Gaelic is such a trigger to otherwise level headed posters on here. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Granny Danger Posted June 17, 2019 Author Share Posted June 17, 2019 Just now, MixuFixit said: You're not just not supporting it though are you? You're against the concept. Why is this? This is getting boring as are you. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ICTJohnboy Posted June 17, 2019 Share Posted June 17, 2019 1 hour ago, MixuFixit said: This isn't hard, just explain why you don't think Gaelic deserves a modestly higher profile. He's from Dundee where many have enough trouble trying to master the English language. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
topcat(The most tip top) Posted June 17, 2019 Share Posted June 17, 2019 He's from Dundee where many have enough trouble trying to master the English language. McGonagal country 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Billy Jean King Posted June 17, 2019 Share Posted June 17, 2019 5 hours ago, MixuFixit said: 15 hours ago, Billy Jean King said: As a native of the currently maligned Ayrshire I'd like to point out that I frequently catch the train at the wonderfully named (Scotrail style) Cill D' Fhinnein. A more apt name for a town in any language I have yet to come across. What's that, Kilwinning? 5 hours ago, Bairnardo said: Potential big team found but not sure tbh. It's 100% genuinely the Gaelic name for Kilwinning - no "big team" comments required 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cerberus Posted June 17, 2019 Share Posted June 17, 2019 The Tories, austerity, Brexit and all that. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BawWatchin Posted June 17, 2019 Share Posted June 17, 2019 4 hours ago, Colkitto said: I predict 5 to 10 years after independence day all schools will be teaching Gaelic - and rightly so. I agree. I can also see them doing away with that foreign language "English" and replacing it with Cymraeg or some other useful lingo. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bishop Briggs Posted June 17, 2019 Share Posted June 17, 2019 (edited) A very expensive lesson! - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-48664373 SNP MEP Alyn Smith has issued an "unreserved" apology over his allegation that the Brexit Party is a "money laundering front". Brexit Party chairman Richard Tice threatened to sue Mr Smith over the claim, which he made in a TV interview. Mr Smith has now admitted he did not have any evidence to support his claim. He has agreed to pay a "significant" contribution to Mr Tice's legal costs, and will also make a donation to the Help for Heroes charity. Mr Smith was being interviewed on Sky News following last month's European Elections when he claimed that the Brexit Party - which is led by Nigel Farage - was "a shell company that's a money laundering front". He went on to claim that "the only question about the Brexit Party now is which laws they've broken and where their campaign finances have come from". Don't smear millionaires who can sue you! Edited June 17, 2019 by Bishop Briggs 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
strichener Posted June 17, 2019 Share Posted June 17, 2019 6 hours ago, MixuFixit said: This isn't hard, just explain why you don't think Gaelic deserves a modestly higher profile. The point of signage is to inform and, with road signs in particular, to do so with a glance. When you go abroad there are certain places where signs a bi-lingual or sometimes even tri-lingual due to the number of foreign visitors that visit. In Scotland we are fortunate in that we speak one of the most common languages in the world and therefore do not need to have any second or third languages on signs. We especially do not have to provide these to the very limited number people that can actually understand them. Quote In 2011, 87,100 people aged 3 and over in Scotland (1.7 per cent of the population) had some Gaelic language skills. Of these 87,100 people: 32,400 (37 per cent) had full skills in Gaelic, that is could understand, speak, read and write Gaelic; 57,600 (66 per cent) could speak Gaelic; 6,100 (7 per cent) were able to read and/or write but not speak Gaelic; and 23,400 (27 per cent) were able to understand Gaelic but could not speak, read or write it If the Scottish government were fully behind the promotion of the language then they should be publishing all government documents, statistics etc. in Gaelic and not just using the language to try and show that Scotland is not England. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ira Gaines Posted June 17, 2019 Share Posted June 17, 2019 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
O'Kelly Isley III Posted June 17, 2019 Share Posted June 17, 2019 3 minutes ago, strichener said: The point of signage is to inform and, with road signs in particular, to do so with a glance. When you go abroad there are certain places where signs a bi-lingual or sometimes even tri-lingual due to the number of foreign visitors that visit. In Scotland we are fortunate in that we speak one of the most common languages in the world and therefore do not need to have any second or third languages on signs. We especially do not have to provide these to the very limited number people that can actually understand them. If the Scottish government were fully behind the promotion of the language then they should be publishing all government documents, statistics etc. in Gaelic and not just using the language to try and show that Scotland is not England. Absolutely agree - the fact that folk actually talk to each other here already does that admirably. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted June 17, 2019 Share Posted June 17, 2019 All or Nothing Man strikes again. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan Steele Posted June 17, 2019 Share Posted June 17, 2019 Why are we not raging about Councils with Latin mottos in their crests? I have no problem with Gaelic signs and actually feel quite pleased when I see them. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
topcat(The most tip top) Posted June 17, 2019 Share Posted June 17, 2019 1 minute ago, The Skelpit Lug said: Why are we not raging about Councils with Latin mottos in their crests? I have no problem with Gaelic signs and actually feel quite pleased when I see them. To be fair to Latin. It does at least have a strong literary tradition behind it. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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