Irish.

[emeraldfool]

The Gealtacht areas aren't culturally interesting? Are you serious? Go to Dublin instead you say? Thats like saying if you want to see Native American culture go to LA. Having spent a large amount of time in both places I can tell you honestly that Dublin is a city fast losing its culture. You have the Hugh Lane Gallery... Trinity I suppose. Asides from that...

So Gealtact people can speak English... Lets throw away the Irish Language then is the name of confomatism!

I never said 'throw away' the Irish language. I said 'stop forcing people to learn' the Irish language. In fact, I think actually making it into a choice will actually help motivate more people to learn it, rather than it being like a chore. I mean, Irish is a part of our culture (be it a small part of today's culture), so if you had the choice to learn it, you probably would, just to be patriotic. But we don't have that choice. It's like forcing someone to throw you a surprise birthday party - it sucks all the joy out of it.

[Parallo]

I can tell you that when I was younger I was almost anti-patriotic. I hated the Irish culture. I suppose it was my way of rebeling. Had I not learned Irish through I would be very regretfull. The only way to preserve it is to force it. Letting it be a choice would be letting it die.

[emeraldfool]

Klingon is a choice. That's the fastest growing language there is.

Besides, that just proves my point - if not a single Irish person would speak it if it wasn't forced on them (i.e. it would die), then why is it so necessary that it be learned?

[Parallo]

And the would regret it and we'd lose a big part of our cultural identity. Se my point?

[emeraldfool]

And the would regret it and we'd lose a big part of our cultural identity. Se my point?

Regret it? If they regret it so much, why wouldn't they learn it. Even old dogs can learn new tricks.

[Parallo]

Not true. Not true at all. Peoples minds absorb much more when they are young particularly language. Its fact. So then as the people that were thought it in scholl die off noone is capable of teaching it. Hence it becomes a dead language.

[emeraldfool]

Not true. Not true at all. Peoples minds absorb much more when they are young particularly language. Its fact. So then as the people that were thought it in scholl die off noone is capable of teaching it. Hence it becomes a dead language.

What isn't true?

Yeah, young people can learn language better, but that doesn't mean old people can't learn a language. If you have the time and the intelligence, it doesn't matter what age you are. You might not learn it when you're a teen, but if you realy want to there's nothing that could stop you learning it. (besides some sort of disability...)