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