'A CLAIM that criticism of the rising amount of public cash being spent on Gaelic is based on prejudice has been angrily rejected by a local Highland councillor.
Hitting back at education minister Mike Russell, John Rosie insists there is no popular mandate for the millions being ploughed into the promotion of the language.
He cites evidence for a lack of public backing for the council's Gaelic promotional policy and takes Mr Russell to task for "bad-mouthing" critics. Mr Rosie said the estimated £25 million a year being channelled into Gaelic promotion is particularly unjustified at a time when frontline public services are under threat.
In a jibe likely to inflame the row, Mr Rosie claims the council's policy is driven by a "group of intellectual romantics, steeped in the past".'
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'Got to support Mr Rosie here... this type of approach to trying to promote a dead language is ridiculous. Who wants TV licences sent in two languages wasting paper? Who wants these ridiculous two-language signs which are a massive danger on our roads? If someone wants to read Gaelic well and good but get rid of the nonsense; Gaelic will never be a front line language in the same way that Welsh and Cornish will never be more than an interesting historical pastime.
Oldsitkaspruce | 16.12.09 - 10:13 pm | #
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Mr Rosie's "apartheid" comment was in appalling taste, and showed no understanding about what apartheid actually was. Apartheid was about many things, including the suppression of DIVERSITY. Ironies never cease.
I particularly like the way Rosie says that people are "steeped in the past". Maybe he should spend a bit of time steeping himself in Caithness' past and then he might be a bit better informed.
'It revealed 38 per cent felt "well-disposed" to a great, or some, extent towards the Gaelic language, compared to 62 per cent who did not.'
38% felt well-disposed, but not 62% against. That's nonsense - how many people were "don't know", "don't care", "uncertain" and "NA"? They don't get a mention do they? Probably at least a third. That doesn't make the remaining 62% ill-disposed at all.
R Bell | 16.12.09 - 8:12 pm | #
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Keep chipping away at those leeches, John - give them an inch and they take £millions. Is there a Gaelic word for "despots"?
Donald Miller | 16.12.09 - 7:36 pm | #
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Mr Rosie seems determined to make a career out of attacking Gaelic; he isn't even very good at it. Keep the day job Mr Rosie.
Anon | 16.12.09 - 5:18 pm | #
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'Got to support Mr Rosie here... this type of approach to trying to promote a dead language is ridiculous. Who wants TV licences sent in two languages wasting paper? Who wants these ridiculous two-language signs which are a massive danger on our roads? If someone wants to read Gaelic well and good but get rid of the nonsense; Gaelic will never be a front line language in the same way that Welsh and Cornish will never be more than an interesting historical pastime.
Oldsitkaspruce | 16.12.09 - 10:13 pm | #
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Mr Rosie's "apartheid" comment was in appalling taste, and showed no understanding about what apartheid actually was. Apartheid was about many things, including the suppression of DIVERSITY. Ironies never cease.
I particularly like the way Rosie says that people are "steeped in the past". Maybe he should spend a bit of time steeping himself in Caithness' past and then he might be a bit better informed.
'It revealed 38 per cent felt "well-disposed" to a great, or some, extent towards the Gaelic language, compared to 62 per cent who did not.'
38% felt well-disposed, but not 62% against. That's nonsense - how many people were "don't know", "don't care", "uncertain" and "NA"? They don't get a mention do they? Probably at least a third. That doesn't make the remaining 62% ill-disposed at all.
R Bell | 16.12.09 - 8:12 pm | #
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Keep chipping away at those leeches, John - give them an inch and they take £millions. Is there a Gaelic word for "despots"?
Donald Miller | 16.12.09 - 7:36 pm | #
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Mr Rosie seems determined to make a career out of attacking Gaelic; he isn't even very good at it. Keep the day job Mr Rosie.
Anon | 16.12.09 - 5:18 pm | #
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Chanainnsa gu bheil deireadh na h-aiste glè shoilleir:
a Scottish Government spokesperson wrote: [...] There was public consultation on the National Plan for Gaelic, there was public consultation on Highland Council's Gaelic language plan and there was public consultation on the guidance for preparation of Gaelic language plans.
"The far-from-faceless Gaelic development body Bòrd na Gàidhlig has also offered to meet Councillor Rosie to discuss his concerns - an offer he has yet to take up."