why don't you lead by example and stop speaking and writing english period?. let us know how you get on. just don't expect any of us to understand your reportOriginally Posted by Telemachus
why don't you lead by example and stop speaking and writing english period?. let us know how you get on. just don't expect any of us to understand your report
A southern Unionist hijacking a thread about positive news about the Irish language- try to compact your posts!
You didn't learn Irish in school?Amen!
and can you imagine the scene on a saturday night, some p.issed up people getting in a cab, trying to ask to go to some place and no one in the car, even the taxi driver, having the fainest idea how to pronounce the place they want to get to. and that's just the locals!
Darren note that the motion refers to "new residential developments" - the linguistically challenged should be safe for a few years then.
No - there were beatings, not learning.
You must be old then!
I wouldn't mind at all if it was pleasant on the ear. Maybe they can find a way to make it less guttural and harsh sounding like German, Arabic or Klingon.
Hijacking a thread? S, what you're saying is that unless someone is here to backslap, they're not allowed to contribute their POV on an open forum?
It might be positive news for you Darren, but it ain't to me. All it is to me is another part of nationalist Ireland stilling ploughing ahead and creating more resentment for the language. whats' the plan? Banning English eventually?? Far fetched I know, but if someone told me 20 years ago that it'd be law that all new residential areas had to be named in Irish by law and English names were hereby illegal I'd have laughed them off as some De Valera throw back..yet here we are.
I did until secondary school and then got an exemption from it. But if I go by the experience of classmates, even if I'd been there I'd know as much as I do today.
Even if only one estate or apartment block gets built in the next few years it will be great, that is with the added hope that the policy will continue for the long-term.
