Indeed, on this or another Galloway list we had a post in French not so long ago and I recall that a few feathers were ruffled. In the end, SKS offered to translate both the posts and the replies. Cheers! Malcolm > "why diminish their potential communication pool by teaching children in > gaelic or urdu or any other of the UK's minority languages? By all means > encourage and support their culture..." You want to encourage culture > while banning minority languages? > > "How many foreign language posts do we get on this list?" Are you saying > that Gaelic is a foreign language??? If you want posts in Gaelic, I'm > sure that there are several list members could oblige. > > Iain > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Lowlandscot@aol.com > To: DUMFRIES-GALLOWAY-L@rootsweb.com > Sent: 16 November 2004 09:13 > Subject: Re: [D-G LIST] Re: Why Gaelic? > > > > In a message dated 15/11/2004 20:24:16 GMT Standard Time, > Copywriter@tesco.net writes: > > I think it was David Blunkett who advised young people to stop talking > urdu > to their grannies and speak English instead!! > > > > Language is a tool for communication. The greater number of other people > with whom one can communicate the better. So why diminish their potential > communication pool by teaching children in gaelic or urdu or any other of > the UK's > minority languages? By all means encourage and support their culture - > we > can see how the Scots and other emigrants took their culture with them > when > they went to North America but they did not refuse to relinquish their > native > language. How many foreign language posts do we get on this list? ...and > would > we understand them if we did! > > Irene > > > > ==== DUMFRIES-GALLOWAY Mailing List ==== > ********************************************************************* > If you have any problems with this list or any of its members please > contact the listowner....Tom Welch....tomas@directcon.net > ******************************************************************** > > > ==== DUMFRIES-GALLOWAY Mailing List ==== > ******************************************************************** > To UNSUBSCRIBE > send a message to DUMFRIES-GALLOWAY-L-request@rootsweb.com (for mail > mode) or DUMFRIES-GALLOWAY-D-request@rootsweb.com (for digest mode) with > only the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the message body. NO subject, NO signature. > ************************************************************************ > >