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Published: 10/03/2009
Unreadable signs will kill people
SIR, – Gaelic is a great language for song but not so good for universal understanding The most confusing yet are the railway station name signs with the Gaelic names placed on different posts to the English names so some passengers can only see the Gaelic ones. Perhaps Scotrail could mount both signs on the same posts.
The experiment of compelling a modern nation to use a dying language has been tried in Ireland, and it kept the country back by 50 years. My father, touring remote Ireland on his motorbike in the 1920s, came across a village where no English was spoken.
Some Inverness councillors appear to fear that visitors to next year’s Mod in Thurso will not find their way without a mass of Gaelic signs. Have more faith, these folk are bilingual. Unreadable road signs will kill people. Maybe we should use Scotland’s second language – Urdo!
Geoff Leet,
Burnside,
Scrabster.
Bilingual signs a waste of money
SIR – The proliferation of Gaelic road signs in the Highland area is without doubt yet another waste of public money and is detrimental to road safety as they can be very confusing and difficult to read.
As the majority of Gaelic speakers cannot read or write their language, they should be withdrawn or at the very least no more put up. It says it all that signs in Inverness bus station are in English and Polish and not Gaelic after millions of pounds thrown at the Gaelic language.
The Gaelic Mafia should get real and stop wasting more taxpayers’ cash.
Ian J Fraser,
Burnaby,
Oldmill Lane,
Inverness.
Agus caraid
Minister’s refusal a kick in the teeth
SIR, – People in the Highlands, more than anyone else, are selling Scotland to survive. We are proud of our visible Scottish heritage, and we depend on it.
Transport Minister Stewart Stevenson's refusal to extend bilingual signage on Highland trunk roads, on evidence too thin to be politically credible, is a kick in our teeth.
Voters here who elected Nationalist politicians expecting Gaelic culture to be respected now find that some have a different idea of what it means to be Scots. And they are doing what they think we will let them away with.
John Ferrier,
Culduthel Court,
Inverness.