Daily Mail Brands the Welsh "Taliban"

I don't think it would be a waste,especially if it was their own decision to learn the language and more people doing so resulted in a resurgance of it,that may seem far fetched,as I don't think right now there is much of a desire for that,but I can't help but think it would be quite a sombre event to see the rare passing of a language we can call our own.I'm going to do my bit and try learn it anyway :icon_mrgreen:

 

I agree. Some posters here and also some Celtic people-mostly the Irish and the Scottish i met, are anti-British , some of them really anti-English, but it doesn't mind them to speak English and can not say a word in Irish or in Scottish Gaelic. Yes, being a Catholic or a Protestant is more important than to save your language. Ridiculous. The language which is a symbol of a nation, not religion.

True.
he, he I love G.B.Shaw who promissed an award to the person who make the English writing and reading system as simple as the Serbian one.
GHOTI? What was written?
FISH. Yes, fish.
EnouGH- like F
W-O-men- like I
EmoTIon-like sh

Honestly, that article is disgrace. Correct me if i wrong, ghirls and bhoys, but Celtic language in Ireland and Britain are dead because the English punished everyone who spoke it and did everything they could to exterminate it.
I can not believe I read something like this. Thank *, people here saved the language. When I imagine I could speak Turkish, it makes me sick and feel disgusting.

 

This has nothing to do with being anti-British. You are clearly missing the point. English is not just spoken in England ya know!

It is a universal language which is spoken in many parts of the world. As is languages like French. Far more useful to learn than Gaelic in my opinion. Nobody said anything about being a Catholic or Protestant so no idea why you have brought religion into this!

Also, English is one of the easiest languages in the world to learn, so I'm baffled as to why someone would write an article claiming it was too difficult!

 

I hate the Daily Mail with a passion. Disgusting rag that it is.

 

I talked about my experience with few Scottish and Irish people I spoke with. Religion was more important to all of them, more than the language. And, religion is not the mark of one nation, but the language is. One of the lads even wore "I hate England" T-shirt, but the only language he speaks is English. Ridiculous.
I am not against English language. Everyone must learns it, because it world No1 language, but it is a bit strange to ignore the language of your country because of it.

 

Oh my, showing your ignorance here I'm afraid mate. English is one of the most difficult languages in the world to learn due to it's varying meanings for words, weird prenounciation of certain words and vast grammatical laws.

 

English is considered easy because it has no cases, no gender and no word agreement, and arguably has a simple grammar, no idea why you are claiming the grammar is so difficult. Maybe to use perfect grammar would take some time, but you can tell the basics would be easy to learn. It also has very short words, and verbs change only in the third person.

Oh my, showing your ignorance

 

You have your opinion, I have mine, and mine will never be that it is an easy language to learn

 

I may be wrong in saying it is completely easy to learn, but what I do know is that it is easy compared to most other languages. Which is why I say it's quite easy.

 

I am by no means a linguist but I know a few people who really struggled to get to grips with English (obviously not natives). The reasons they gave were the multiple definitions of the same word, the weird prenounciation and the grammar (which mostly only comes into play if writing English not so much speaking).

 

To be fair, copy / pasting your rationale from a website detailed "5 easiest languages to learn" does impact somewhat upon the force of your argument from a personal stance! :smiley-laughing002:

http://www.thirdage.com/learning/5-easiest-languages-to-learn

However, customarily English is widely recognised as one of the easier languages to learn without doubt.

 

I already knew it was an easy language so just did a little research to Was just confirm
what I already knew to be fair

And why does that impact on the force of my argument? None of what I said is not true.

 

"From a personal stance" - ie had you simply identified you were plagiarising a wee bit, as opposed to feigning it as your own thoughts, it might have had a bit more strength to it in terms of the points being taken seriously!:smiley-laughing002:

 

I didn't use a website I used my personal experience

Everything is subjective though, what is easy for you mightn't be easy for me and vice versa. The people I know struggled with it; but that doesn't necessarily mean the rest of the world will

Anyway back on topic. The Daily Mail is full of * - up the Gaelic

 

Sorry I will cite references I used in the future if it means that much too you!

 

Now now, no need to get snippy because you got busted copy / pasting someone else's website contribution and feigning it as your own FFS! Plenty people have done it at some stage, I am sure.

 

My argument was perfectly well put I thought and at least it was MY argument and not someone elses

You ever had an original idea or thought pal?

 

Busted?!

Yeah ok then mate, I will let you get on with cross referencing other peoples posts with google, you obviously have plenty of time on you're hands too do it.

 

Yeah - "busted," as in "caught." Which you were. You made a bit of an * of yourself in all honesty. All due respect, but with the grammatical errors in your above post acting as a perfect reference point, I was stunned to read your initial post.

The presumption, without trying to be overly offensive, was that you MUST have nicked it from somewhere else. Hence checking - and confirming - that it did in fact not originate from you.

Every day is a school day and all that - but don't try and avoid the fact you tried to highlight the "ignorance" of another poster by plagiarising the thoughts of others and that you did not have the decency to admit that while they at least were capable of a thought of their own, you were not.

 

If it wasn't my original idea I would not have researched it in the first place. You are correct, I am not the best at grammar, hence why I put my point across by using someone who puts it better than I ever could. Don't worry, I will cite where I did my research in the future