Future of Scottish languages.

[Kern]

Most of this wet windy island is funded by Westminster. And will continue to be if we don't get our shyte together. And oil is not the answer. Nor is trying to thieve bits of England to make up oil boundaries. The oil is running out. Gas is already on the downturn.

What we Scots need to do is create the conditions for a modern economy.

IT

Communications

Media

Design

Speaking Gaelic whist ar$$h8led on a Saturday night is not it.

It is dreamland.

[Scottish_Republican]

Why are the two in opposition?

Your idea of Scotland is little better than a retail park just north of Newcastle.

I'll tell you what. I'll lock you in a bank vault, with food, drink, and toilet facilities - no windows, no tv, no computer, no phone and no one to talk to, except wads of cash. Within a few months, you'll probably want to hang yourself.

"Trident is funded by Westminster though."

It's funded by us. Without taxpayers, Westminster is nothing.

[SeamusAlba]

Originally Posted by georgekidd

By the way Marlys of Mull, seeing as you're an ancient culture enthusiast, do you believe all that you posted about the origins of the Gaelic language? The reason I ask is I believe the language came over to Scotland from Ireland in the 4th century (if not before) and yet your post claims the people (and hence the language) only arrived in Ireland in the 4th or 5th century! Maybe you should do a bit more research on the subject before you start spreading the same old garbage as so many others have before you - or are you just another of those American story tellers?

There are academic and somewhat compelling arguments to be found to thwart alleged Brythonnic Placenames in the Northeast. Strathclyde south of the Antonine and the Lothians definitley have true Cumbric placenames possibly due to Roman sponsored occupation below the Antonine, but that said, the only vestiges of Scottish Cumbric language and tradition survive today in Gaelic and Gaelic Arthurian songs - Brythonnic was completely absorbed into Goidelic here. This book is out of print now but you can view it page by page online:

The Gaelic topography of Scotland, and what it proves, explained; with much historical, antiquarian, and descriptive information

When used as a footnote to Skene's Celtic Scotland you'll find strong arguments which even the most reactionary anti-Gael will find difficult to cope with.

Regarding the Picts; I believe Skene contends that Columba needed no translator when converting heathen Picts to Christianity.

[Duthill]

Originally Posted by SeamusAlba

Regarding the Picts; I believe Skene contends that Columba needed no translator when converting heathen Picts to Christianity.

Columba was bilingual , or his one and only language was that of the Picts maybe