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View Poll Results: Are you fluent in Gaelic?
Yes 6 15.38%
No 13 33.33%
Semi 3 7.69%
I just started 14 35.90%
Not interested in Scots Gaelic 3 7.69%
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Old 1st October 2006, 12:27
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And I've replied in different threads that I do not speak Gaelic, nor have any interest in learning.

Foreign posters should note that Polwarth possesses two qualifications sought after in history departments in North British universities for lecturers specialising in the study of the manners and mores of the Gaelic speaking clans.
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Old 1st October 2006, 15:30
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Awaaay, ya numptie. If you hud wan mair brain cell, you MIGHT be considered dangerous. As it is: you're in the same category as Peter Dow. A disgrace to Scotland.
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Old 1st October 2006, 16:02
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Well - name one professor of Scottish history who has taken the trouble to learn the Gaelic language. We are all waiting for an answer.
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Old 1st October 2006, 16:18
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aint the topic of this thread here, Rainie. No hijacking, ma'se do thoil e. What was your vote?
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Well - name one professor of Scottish history who has taken the trouble to learn the Gaelic language. We are all waiting for an answer.
THE first rule used when trying to win a debate, is to know the answer before you've asked the question.
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Old 1st October 2006, 23:25
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Gaun yersel, McDink
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Old 2nd October 2006, 12:07
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Scots Gaelic, is officaly a dead language.
Official according to who? Not our officialdom. Maybe in Ontario or North Carolina but not in Scotland.

Troll...

I wish you would learn to spell English properly, you folk. Doesn't exactly make much of a case when you can't even write the language you promote properly.
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