Re: About the Gaelic-L thing

CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU writes:
>So Irish speakers feel oppressed by English, but OTOH the English
>speaking majority
>probably feel oppressed by the state's sometimes ham-fisted attempts to
>foist Irish
>on them, notably (until quite recently) compulsory Irish in school, and
>the need for
>Irish qualifications in the Civil Service etc.Just what do you do when a
>nation's
>"First Official Language" is the everyday medium of only a tiny minority
>and the
>majority are happy with the language of their former colonial masters?
>Are there
>parallels elsewhere, in parts of the former USSR perhaps?
A friend of mine who is an American, but works in Ireland, says from her
observations that a lot of Irish really resented having to learn Irish in
School, and according to her did everything they could to forget it once
they were out of school.

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