Hiya Gareth, Gareth Bowker elucidated on 16/11/06 13:47: > On Thu, 2006-11-16 at 13:44 +0000, Jon Grant wrote: > >> Without wanting to cause a stir with any cultural imperialism, perhaps >> there are more important things than Welsh and Irish i18n.. >> >> Welsh was almost dead before the revival in the last 10 years as I >> understand it. Many of those people taught in Welsh will be stuck with >> difficulty speaking English when they want to consider wider range of >> job options in their life. So it could be a blessing for them to have >> English as their first language, and a European or Asian language as >> second ;) > > Um, are you being serious?
Perhaps a bit of both, it was actually a welsh family who pointed out to me some of the "problems" they saw with the change to being taught in Welsh at school. > If so, I'll just point out that you're quite wrong in your assertions. > I'll happily fill in the details off-list, but the statements about > Welsh being almost dead or the part about having difficulty speaking > English is so absurd I don't even know where to begin! Ok, I'd be interested to hear from you. Cheers Jon _______________________________________________ Fsfe-uk mailing list Fsfe-uk@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/fsfe-uk
