Alberto Fedrigotti: Border Experiences

[Elizabeth J. Pyatt]

From: Alberto Fedrigotti <fedrigotti at rocketmail.com>
Subject: Re: Marion Gunn: Monopoly in Other Languages?
To: The Celtic Linguistics List <CELTLING at LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG>

I would like to talk about what you have seen.
I live near the border (about 27 Km).

>  From: Marion Gunn <mgunn at egt.ie>
>  X-Accept-Language: en
>  To: The Celtic Linguistics List
>  <CELTLING at LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG>,
>           gaelic-l at listserv.heanet.ie
>  Subject: Re: Elizabeth Pyatt: Bilingual Welsh
>  Monopoly
>
>  >  Bilingual Monopoly for Swansea
>  >  BBC News, May 24
>  >  The Swansea version of the board game Monopoly is
>  to be bilingual
>  >  after a poll of people living in the city.
>  >
>
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/south_west/4575825.stm
>
>  Thanks for that good news, Elizabeth.
>
>  Am just back from Italy and my first visit in ten
>  years to Slovenia
>  (truly amazing the changes since then, and strange
>  to be able to hop
>  back and forth daily across a border whose wall only
>  disappeared a year
>  ago!) where I talked terminology with my Welsh
>  counterparts, tried to
>  learn a Northern Saami song, show some of the locals
>  how to do Irish and
>  Breton dancing.
>
>  Also got some real work done, about which it is too
>  soon to speak, which
>  will probably have to wait some time to come to
>  fruit.
>
>  Only responding to your msg on CELTLING (and cc:ing
>  GAELIC-L) to ask if
>  anyone has yet done Monopoly into our  other
>  sister languages (le teann fiosrachta).
>
>  Keep up the good work.
>  mg
>
>  --
>
>  Marion Gunn * EGTeo (Estab.1991)
>  27 P·irc an FhÈithlinn, Baile an
>  BhÛthair, Co. ¡tha Cliath, Šire.
>  * mgunn at egt.ie * eamonn at egt.ie *
>  --

>

Alberto Fedrigotti   (Alt-beirt Feidraich-goth-is)
Via Monte Hermada 46/6
33100 UDINE - ITALY
tel.0039-0432-46355
fedrigotti at rocketmail.com ,fedrigotti.alberto at spes.uniud.it
fedrigot at ten.dimi.uniud.it


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