If that were true then moral relativism could have never taken hold in the first place.Values don't work like that.
The one who pushes their values the hardest will win out. In our age of moral relativism we are too wimpy to assert anything. A confidant hard civilisation like the people who come from Islamic nations will dominate in such an environment.
Anyway, point is, it looks difficult, but it's actually astonishingly easy to speak Welsh.
Yeah but they're Welsh so they probably deserve it.But very difficult to speak Welsh without spitting all over the person you are talking to.
The non-English-language BBC channels actually have some good documentaries. I think it's because they're not trying to impress anybody, like most TV documentaries seem to be.The Irish language documentary I just watched on BBC Two Northern Ireland about the treasures of ancient Ulster would disagree with you (it was subtitled in English)
Scottish Gaelic is very much the same. My girlfriend has learned a bit of it, and while she'd struggle to keep up with a two-year old when it comes to the actual language, she can read the words without any difficulty.Despite appearances, it's actually quite an easy language to learn to speak, because it's completely phonetic. And I mean completely, 100% phonetic. The alphabet is actually just the sound the letters make, so if you learn the alphabet, you can literally say any word in Welsh out loud without much practice. It looks difficult because some of the letters are pronounced differently to most other European languages, and because some "letters" are made up of two characters (e.g. "ll" is actually a letter, but is symbolically represented as "double-L"; "ch" is also a letter, symbolically represented as "ch"; etc). I'm assuming that in previous incarnations of the language, those double letters would have had their own unique symbol, in the same way as the thorn in English turned into "th". Even where there are consonant mutations, (such as dropping the "a" from "ag ogo goch"), those mutations are made explicit in the language, rather than having to be inferred by experience as in English
Anyway, point is, it looks difficult, but it's actually astonishingly easy to speak Welsh.
Observations:I'd also like to point out that Welsh is the true language of the native Britons, and all you foreigners are polluting our pure, native culture
The non-English-language BBC channels actually have some good documentaries. I think it's because they're not trying to impress anybody, like most TV documentaries seem to be.
(I mean, on BBC Alba they're mostly about fishing villages, but still better than the four billionth documentary about Hitler VIII and his Roman pyramids.)
You should follow her example, my young padawan. It is a wonderful language.Traitorfishy said:Scottish Gaelic is very much the same. My girlfriend has learned a bit of it, and while she'd struggle to keep up with a two-year old when it comes to the actual language, she can read the words without any difficulty.
there's a linguistic argument that it's actually an import from irelandI'd also like to point out that Welsh is the true language of the native Britons, and all you foreigners are polluting our pure, native culture
I'll now stand up for Quackers since he's been banned.
I'll now stand up for Quackers since he's been banned. Anyone that wants to talk mean about him has to get through me first.
He was banned?
Why would you defend him? You're the son of immigrants, the very people he wants to keep out.
He was banned?
Why would you defend him? You're the son of immigrants, the very people he wants to keep out.
Plotinus worked out nothing of the sort. You missed his point. He deliberately included demonstrably false assumptions in order for this number to be as alarmist as possible. In reality, predicting fertility rates and such after 100 years is pretty much impossible.
Communalism is not a good thing, I agree.