Quote from: PeterGrant on September 10, 2020, 12:23:45 pm

Quote from: LionMo on September 10, 2020, 11:54:05 am

Quote from: AJ on September 10, 2020, 08:40:40 am

Hope so. Gaelic is a load of old shite and there's no need for all that signage all over Scotland. Another waste of money.

Absolutely AJ, it was a huge waste of money putting up these signs, putting it on police vehicles etc. **** gaelic 🙈

Except that most countries have multi-lingual signage.

Does it make it right though ?

Yes.

Quote from: PeterGrant on September 10, 2020, 01:45:43 pm

Quote from: LionMo on September 10, 2020, 01:27:51 pm

Quote from: PeterGrant on September 10, 2020, 12:23:45 pm

Quote from: LionMo on September 10, 2020, 11:54:05 am

Quote from: AJ on September 10, 2020, 08:40:40 am

Hope so. Gaelic is a load of old shite and there's no need for all that signage all over Scotland. Another waste of money.

Absolutely AJ, it was a huge waste of money putting up these signs, putting it on police vehicles etc. **** gaelic 🙈

Except that most countries have multi-lingual signage.

Does it make it right though ?

Yes.

Would the money not have been better spent on other things ?

No.

Quote from: AJ on September 10, 2020, 01:03:45 pm

Quote from: PeterGrant on September 10, 2020, 12:23:45 pm

Quote from: LionMo on September 10, 2020, 11:54:05 am

Quote from: AJ on September 10, 2020, 08:40:40 am

Hope so. Gaelic is a load of old shite and there's no need for all that signage all over Scotland. Another waste of money.

Absolutely AJ, it was a huge waste of money putting up these signs, putting it on police vehicles etc. **** gaelic 🙈

Except that most countries have multi-lingual signage.

How many gaelic speakers do you know?

About 8.

It’s used a little in my house as my wife is from the Western Isles.

Language is a beautiful thing. I have picked up a little Gaelic and I also have some Spanish as well as some conversational Mandarin from a 12 week course I did at the Confucius Institute at Glasgow Uni.

I also use some Quenya and Sindarin with my children and my dog also responds to some commands in these Elvish languages.

Don't ever change  Pete. 😂

Gaelic is a Celtic language of Scotland for over 1500 years part of our heritage and cultural identity especially for people in the Highlands and Islands.

Now since the SNP came in they have given rebirth to our historical language.

The mountains of Scotland have Gaelic names with meanings .

It was also a language used in world war 2 because the Germans weren't able to work it out .


I'm sure the amount of speakers are now up to 60.000.
My loon who speaks Spanish also would like to learn our language because of his love of the Scottish mountains and scenery .

So about 1% of the population speak Gaelic?

Be great if all the political posts here were in Polish

It's getting a bit too much even for me.

Quote from: AJ on September 10, 2020, 01:03:45 pm

Quote from: PeterGrant on September 10, 2020, 12:23:45 pm

Quote from: LionMo on September 10, 2020, 11:54:05 am

Quote from: AJ on September 10, 2020, 08:40:40 am

Hope so. Gaelic is a load of old shite and there's no need for all that signage all over Scotland. Another waste of money.

Absolutely AJ, it was a huge waste of money putting up these signs, putting it on police vehicles etc. **** gaelic 🙈

Except that most countries have multi-lingual signage.

How many gaelic speakers do you know?

About 8.

It’s used a little in my house as my wife is from the Western Isles.

Language is a beautiful thing. I have picked up a little Gaelic and I also have some Spanish as well as some conversational Mandarin from a 12 week course I did at the Confucius Institute at Glasgow Uni.

I also use some Quenya and Sindarin with my children and my dog also responds to some commands in these Elvish languages.

Great stuff love the bit about your dog .

My daughter Sarah speaks to her dog in Spanish it's nice to see.

Quote from: AJ on September 10, 2020, 01:03:45 pm

Quote from: PeterGrant on September 10, 2020, 12:23:45 pm

Quote from: LionMo on September 10, 2020, 11:54:05 am

Quote from: AJ on September 10, 2020, 08:40:40 am

Hope so. Gaelic is a load of old shite and there's no need for all that signage all over Scotland. Another waste of money.

Absolutely AJ, it was a huge waste of money putting up these signs, putting it on police vehicles etc. **** gaelic 🙈

Except that most countries have multi-lingual signage.

How many gaelic speakers do you know?

About 8.

It’s used a little in my house as my wife is from the Western Isles.

Language is a beautiful thing. I have picked up a little Gaelic and I also have some Spanish as well as some conversational Mandarin from a 12 week course I did at the Confucius Institute at Glasgow Uni.

I also use some Quenya and Sindarin with my children and my dog also responds to some commands in these Elvish languages.

Any time I've heard Gaelic being spoken it sounds beautiful!  I don't understand any of it, but part of me thinks I should, given my Arran and Skye heritage.

I suppose I differ from most people in that I view ethnicity/race as real, something intrinsically part of every human being, and this is the bedrock that produces a language.  Whilst I'm not against people learning other languages that have manifested within a particular group, we shouldn't pretend that they belong to different groups.  They ARE worth preserving though.

Gaelic is a language of the Gaels, it has never been spoken all over Scotland and is not Scotland's language, although the SNP, IMO, are trying to make out that this is the case.

The SNP's roadsign spending-spree is to the detriment of other languages which has been spoken in Scotland over the years too, including indigenous ones.  To me, making out that it's Scotland's language trivialises the language itself.

That's my take on it anyway, and as usual I'm probably thinking about it far too deeply

Quite cool how you know a bit of Spanish, Pete.  An ex of mine was working out in Gibralter a few years ago, and learnt a lot.  I got into it a bit and still play the Learning Spanish game on the DS from time to time.  It'd be handy to know IMO.