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The Daltaí Boards » Archive: 2005- » 2006 (May-June) » Archive through June 13, 2006 » Litir ag gabháil leithscéil « Previous Next »

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Yank (Unregistered Guest)
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Posted on Thursday, June 08, 2006 - 07:36 pm:   Small TextLarge TextEdit Post Print Post

A Chaoimhín a chara-I apologise for having vented my displeasure with O/Broin’s column(BEO) on your boards!
I should have held my water until Clár Plé BEO comes back on line!

However, I did correlate English and Irish as the official languages of America and Ireland, and I’m somewhat taken aback by your closing this thread, being that you sign of with :”Tír gan teanga, Tír gan anam.” which is exactly the essence of my point-of-view about a country’s official language!!

Beir buaidh,

Yank

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Caitriona (Unregistered Guest)
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Nach raibh go leor teangachaí i Meiriceá ar dtús? B'iad anam na tíre. Anois tá tú ag caint ar an tideal 'official language' a thabhairt do theanga na daoine a scrios amach na daoine sin. Chumash an teanga a bhí anseo i mo chuid de California ar dtús ach níl sé le cloisteáil níos mó.

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Dennis
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Wee_falorie_man
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Posted on Thursday, June 08, 2006 - 08:48 pm:   Small TextLarge TextEdit Post Print Post

quote:

I did correlate English and Irish as the official languages of America and Ireland


That is such an erroneous correlation that I hardly know where to begin disproving it!

First of all, the English language is not indigenous to North America. For example, here in New Mexico, Spanish has been spoken for centuries before any English speakers ever showed up. The indigenous languages have been here alot longer.

There is no real need to make English the “official” language of the United States. It is just another example of election year grandstanding by our corrupt politicians who hope to garner votes from people (like yourself?) who are naive enough to fall for it.

English is already, in fact, the de facto “official” language so why is there a need for legislation? Why not make it “official” for people in the U.S. to shake hands with their right hand?

Everyone on this site would do well to remember that Ireland was once an extremely impoverished, colonized land where millions of people were forced to emigrate - many of them came to the United States. In the U.S., they suffered greatly from discrimination at the hands of anti-immigrant employers, politicians, landlords, etc.

Please try to refrain from using the pretense of being a learner of Irish as an excuse for posting the worst kind of oppressive, anti-immigrant bashing on this forum.



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