Re: Hello to you all!
| From: | Frank George Valoczy <valoczy@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, March 4, 2002, 17:36 |
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>> On Mon, 4 Mar 2002, Keith Gaughan wrote:
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> Sad, innit, when people don't even know what "Lá Breithe sona duit"
> means.
>
> <comment type="political" action="ignore">
> Having said that, they were probably from the 'other side', i.e. the
> Unionist community. Whereas on the Republican side, you've some chance
> of meeting people who can speak the language (even if the Ulster
> dialect sounds odd, and remember - I'm from Sligo so I should be used
> to it), but in the Unionist community, the language is avoided like the
> plague. Stupid bloody politics.
> </comment>
Actually, she was Protestant technically, but she really didn't seem to
care either way...I mean, I got along rather well with her and vice versa,
and I'm Catholic...
As I've maintained for quite a while, on the individual level, this
political crap is all irrelevant, it's only when you take the ethnic
communities as a whole. It's like one of my friends in Belgrade said, "I
hate Albanians - as a whole - but I have some Albanian friends". =\
Cheers, Ferko