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<blockquote data-quote="Every Time Ref" data-source="post: 962190" data-attributes="member: 71826"><p>Glad you're active in this thread, I figure you could use the distraction right now...</p><p></p><p>On the subject of similarities between Irish/Gaelic/Manx and differences from Cornish - I can speak in this topic with all authority of someone who googled it this morning ... the Celtic language family divides into two sub-groups of 3, one of which is Irish/Scottish Gaelic/Manx which are closely related, the other is Welsh/Cornish/Breton which are closely related again. I have to say those divisions seem pretty random, I'd be interested to see the historic context that connects those two sets of three peoples!</p><p></p><p>The second part of your post touches on a social/ethical question which interests me - to what extent is it a) desirable and b) useful to artificially "rescue" a dying language? (Through concerted efforts to teach it in schools for example, as has happened with Irish, Scottish Gaelic and Welsh).</p><p></p><p>Personally I'm divided on this. On an emotional level I find the idea of a language dying very sad; but on a practical level, I think artificially supporting a language which has no practical use is damaging to the education of children who are expected to learn it at the expense of more useful subjects, including other more useful languages.</p><p></p><p>Now, I acknowledge I'm speaking from a position of ridiculous privilege on this, as an English person my native language, the one that represents my culture, is arguably the most powerful language in history! So I'm sure it feels different to an Irishman or Breton or whatever. But I do kind of feel that teaching kids Irish or Welsh, in a world where the only people who speak those languages also speak English, the global language ... is taking up time and energy which would be better spent learning science or engineering or an art, or a more practically useful language like Mandarin.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Every Time Ref, post: 962190, member: 71826"] Glad you’re active in this thread, I figure you could use the distraction right now... On the subject of similarities between Irish/Gaelic/Manx and differences from Cornish - I can speak in this topic with all authority of someone who googled it this morning ... the Celtic language family divides into two sub-groups of 3, one of which is Irish/Scottish Gaelic/Manx which are closely related, the other is Welsh/Cornish/Breton which are closely related again. I have to say those divisions seem pretty random, I’d be interested to see the historic context that connects those two sets of three peoples! The second part of your post touches on a social/ethical question which interests me - to what extent is it a) desirable and b) useful to artificially “rescue” a dying language? (Through concerted efforts to teach it in schools for example, as has happened with Irish, Scottish Gaelic and Welsh). Personally I’m divided on this. On an emotional level I find the idea of a language dying very sad; but on a practical level, I think artificially supporting a language which has no practical use is damaging to the education of children who are expected to learn it at the expense of more useful subjects, including other more useful languages. Now, I acknowledge I’m speaking from a position of ridiculous privilege on this, as an English person my native language, the one that represents my culture, is arguably the most powerful language in history! So I’m sure it feels different to an Irishman or Breton or whatever. But I do kind of feel that teaching kids Irish or Welsh, in a world where the only people who speak those languages also speak English, the global language ... is taking up time and energy which would be better spent learning science or engineering or an art, or a more practically useful language like Mandarin. [/QUOTE]
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