Re: Gaelic thing

From: Ray Brown [mailto:ray.brown@FREEUK.COM]

> On Monday, July 8, 2002, at 02:43 , Keith Gaughan wrote:
>
> > From: Abrigon Gusiq [mailto:abrigon@YAHOO.COM]
> >
> >> Sadly by forcing Irish Gaelic on people, they likely seperate
> >> themselves other places that speak a related lingo, but who
> >> would not care to join with the Erse Gaelic speakers..
> >>
> >> Places that are currently rejoing the Celtic lingo world,
> >> like Cornwall, or places like Brittany, Nova Scotia (speaking
> >> a mixture of Erse and Scot Gaelic), Mann (who used to speak a
> >> local version of Gaelic), Wales and like.
> >
> > Um, maybe it's just a local thing here, but Erse *is* Scot's Gaelic.
> > Irish, on the other hand, it Irish Gaelic.
>
> Quite right - and the term is not very polite either.
Yup, know that, that's why I'd never use it.

> I don't understand what Abrigon means by "Places that are currently
> rejoin[in]g the Celtic lingo world.........."
>
> When, pray, did Wales & Brittany _leave_?
Wales, when they became obsessed with stringing as many 'l's as possible
together, and Brittany with 'z' ;-D

> Something new will *not* be a 'naturally occurring Conlang.'
Not to mention that 'naturally occurring Conlang' is an oxymoronic
phrase...