LL-L: "Web resources" LOWLANDS-L, 12.JAN.2000 (01) [E]

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From: Colin Wilson [lcwilson at iee.org]
Subject: LL-L: "Web resources" LOWLANDS-L, 10.JAN.2000 (03) [E]

At 17:17 10/01/00 -0800, Ian James Parsley wrote:

>a series of own goals. Whereas the likes of R.Gregg and G.B.Adams were able
>to pursue studies into Scots in Ireland freely twenty or thirty years ago,
>the issue has now become politicised to the extent that I, as a student of
>Scots in Northern Ireland, am immediately tarred by the "Irishman on the
>street" as inherently "anti-Catholic", "anti-Irish" and "anti-nationalist" -
>allegations I am quite frankly fed up with refuting, as they are
>quite honestly totally offensive and have nothing to do with my interest in
>language.

IJP might like to try learning to speak Irish as an answer
to this. The people who react in this way are unlikely to be native
speakers of Irish - who, in all probability, would respect his right to
pursue an active interest in his own heritage.

It's far more likely that they're people whose bitterness and vehemence
far outstrips their own prowess in Irish. Faced with an "opponent" whose
ability exceeded their own - which probably wouldn't be all that
great - they'd have to shut up, or just make themselves look even sillier.

Colin Wilson.

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