Thanks Maya,<br>We all know what they are kinda trying to say....BUT its insulting to those of us learning and teaching <br>languages that were declared "Dead" or "Extinct" and we still read that stuff,even as preschoolers <br>
are hurting our ears shouting their "extinct" phrases.<br><br>There's an odd western cultural phenomenon (maybe inherited from Rome via the Greeks?)<br>this glorifying tragedy and recreating a kind of head shaking artificial sorrow about "the last of the.................."<br>
Perhaps when we feel this cheaper variety of "sorrow" we feel we've "grieved," done our job, and can move on.<br><div class="gmail_quote">Seems it's inherent within "Anchor News". Just nothing like our daily inoculation of "tragedy" to make us feel better.<br>
-Richard<br><br><br><br><br><br>On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 1:10 PM, Maya Tracy Borhani <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gmcmaya@gmail.com" target="_blank">gmcmaya@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div style="word-wrap:break-word">I think it's urgent that we all speak out against this kind of language about language loss: We don't know that Cromarty will be silenced "forever." THANK THE GODDESS and gods that there exist audio recordings (and hopefully video of dear old Bobby and Gordon), so that descendants - like those here in our American tribes - can reconstruct and relearn this rich language again.<div>
<br></div><div>I strongly believe it's part of our work as language activists to try and stop that melodramatic trend in reporting on language loss, because then that DEATH becomes the focus of lots of hand-wringing, vs. focusing on revitalizing the language with whatever resources we have.</div>
<div><br></div><div>With all wishes of best luck and hard work to the people of the Scottish Black Isle.</div><div><br></div><div>Blessings,</div><div><br></div><div>Maya</div><div><div class="h5"><div><br></div><div><br>
<div><div>On Oct 8, 2012, at 11:00 AM, Jordan Lachler wrote:</div><br><blockquote type="cite"><h1><font size="4">Final word from Cromarty: Scottish Black Isle dialect silenced forever as last native speaker dies aged 92</font></h1>
<ul><li style="font-weight:bold"><font size="4">Bobby Hogg was the last person still fluent in the fisherfolk dialect</font></li>
<li><font size="4"><span style="font-weight:bold">His younger brother Gordon had been the second speaker of the Cromarty language until he passed away last year aged 86<br></span></font></li></ul><p><font size="4">
</font>By Jane Borland<a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/search.html?s=&authornamef=Jane+Borland+" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"></a></p><p>
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</p><div style="text-align:left;overflow:hidden;text-decoration:none;border:medium none"><font style="font-size:1.2em">It was a traditional dialect used for centuries by fisherfolk.</font></div><p><font style="font-size:1.2em">But yesterday it emerged that the language of Cromarty had finally died with the passing of its last speaker.</font></p>
<p><font style="font-size:1.2em">Bobby
Hogg was the only person still fluent in the age-old tongue of the
Black Isle and his death at the age of 92 means it will now exist only
in audio recordings.</font></p><div style="text-align:left;overflow:hidden;text-decoration:none;border:medium none"><br>Read more: <a style="color:#003399" href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2212466/Final-word-Scottish-Cromarty-dialect-silenced-forever-native-speaker-dies-aged-92.html#ixzz28jQMGdAx" target="_blank">http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2212466/Final-word-Scottish-Cromarty-dialect-silenced-forever-native-speaker-dies-aged-92.html</a>
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