I think the wider issue here is institutional confidence. A multinational democracy shouldn’t need to narrow participation to a single cultural norm. Whether we’re talking about Gaelic, Scots, Welsh or community languages, the question is whether democratic institutions are designed to include citizens or to define who counts. It’s an important reminder that seemingly technical clauses can reveal much deeper assumptions about the kind of state we’re trying to build.
And the answer is ..INDEPENDENCE!..Thank you Deform for helping Scotland along the road to freedom from colonialism and bigoted minds like yerself.
Maybe Deform should be very careful what they say and do as we always have the Irish way of ridding ourselves of foreign english..once the Bannockburn mindset kicks in ..things could get dodgy.....so better hurry back tae dear old blighty....unless of course they are still throwing milkshakes at ye...
For OUR Scotland and her weans some of whom speak beautiful Gaelic. ( like my granny).....
This means they can swear at ye and ye widnae know it...but they widnae throw a milkshake at ye...too expensive....more like toss a turd in yer direction..like for like as it were.
Tír gan teanga, tír gan anam. A country without a language is a country without a soul. Attributed to Pádraig Pearse, Irish Revolutionary.
I think the wider issue here is institutional confidence. A multinational democracy shouldn’t need to narrow participation to a single cultural norm. Whether we’re talking about Gaelic, Scots, Welsh or community languages, the question is whether democratic institutions are designed to include citizens or to define who counts. It’s an important reminder that seemingly technical clauses can reveal much deeper assumptions about the kind of state we’re trying to build.
Yes both the Trumpian effort to suppress language and the Faragian effort to police Celtic Languages come from a position of weakness and insecurity
thanks Emma
And the answer is ..INDEPENDENCE!..Thank you Deform for helping Scotland along the road to freedom from colonialism and bigoted minds like yerself.
Maybe Deform should be very careful what they say and do as we always have the Irish way of ridding ourselves of foreign english..once the Bannockburn mindset kicks in ..things could get dodgy.....so better hurry back tae dear old blighty....unless of course they are still throwing milkshakes at ye...
For OUR Scotland and her weans some of whom speak beautiful Gaelic. ( like my granny).....
This means they can swear at ye and ye widnae know it...but they widnae throw a milkshake at ye...too expensive....more like toss a turd in yer direction..like for like as it were.
An' then we can flush ye away'.