Jacobites

[Fuathas]

BBC Scotland:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/scottishhistory/
not too bad.

[Raingeanach]

Originally posted by Fuathas
BBC Scotland:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/scottishhistory/
not too bad.

I don`t know where you are coming from.

At any rate, note the following from the Jacobites and the Union section: "...and if that future wasn`t to be Scottish, then it was to be through the British [i.e.English] Union...".

American readers of Scotland.com/forums can bet their bottom dollar that the writers of The Making of the Union never did take the trouble to learn Gaidhlig, our true Scots language. Such people are cultural traitors if they were born in Scotland.

[Fuathas]

Cò tha cuir dragh orm? tha mi a’chur fios thugad!

obh obh cha fhios agam càit’ an do rugadh ‘s thugadh thu agus cait’ a bheil thu a’ fuireach ged tha mi coma. Ach tha fios agam gu bheil Gàighlig agam ge-ta. Tha mi 'n dòchas gu bheil Gaidhlig agad cuideachd, nach eil?

I didna say the site is politically accurate but it surely speaks in a commonly understandable manner.


[Edited by Fuathas on 29th June 2005 at 04:50]

[Raingeanach]

Originally posted by Fuathas
Cò tha cuir dragh orm? tha mi a’chur fios thugad!
obh obh cha fhios agam càit’ an do rugadh ‘s thugadh thu agus cait’ a bheil thu a’ fuireach ged tha mi coma. Ach tha fios agam gu bheil Gàighlig agam ge-ta. Tha mi 'n dòchas gu bheil Gaidhlig agad cuideachd, nach eil?
I didna say the site is politically accurate but it surely speaks in a commonly understandable manner.
[Edited by Fuathas on 29th June 2005 at 04:50]

No it doesn`t!

American readers should note what John Lorne Campbell, a brilliant Gaidhlig learner and writer, wrote in the introduction to his "Highand Songs of the `45" :"This propaganda which is of a type now familiar to many of us, soon crystallised into an accepted opinion, adopted by most Scottish (and practically all English) historians, who have been almost without exception ignorant of the language of the people whom they condemned. It is astonishing in any case that any historian should feel himself properly eequipped to write the history of his country while remaining in ignorance of the language spoken over half its area."

[Fuathas]

I am not a historian, Raingeanach.
A bheil Gaidhlig agaibhse fhein?

[ANDY-J3]

Originally posted by Raingeanach
It is astonishing in any case that any historian should feel himself properly eequipped to write the history of his country while remaining in ignorance of the language spoken over half its area."

Gibbon wrote his epic The decline and fall of the Roman empire and dealt extensively with Germanic and Celtic peoples whose language he had no knowledge of.Should he have felt himself to be not properly equipped to write about such peoples because he lacked knowledge of their languages?No,therefore an in depth knowledge of native language while useful is not a prerequisite for any historian that wants to write about the history of any given country.

[Fuathas]

depends on what has to rely on. Being able to read the originals beats reading translations.

My friend would say it prolly depends on his empathic ability too.

It is a fact that culture, language, and understanding go hand in hand.