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Thread #62642   Message #1012866
Posted By: InOBU
04-Sep-03 - 04:46 PM
Thread Name: Folklore: Is Shelta a secret language?
Subject: RE: Folklore: Is Shelta a secret language?
I have spent from about 1977 to the present with Travellers here (the US) and in Ireland, above I give a logical arguement which you ignore and draw a conclution, not from a resoned arguement but from a sitation, quoting a non-Traveller. Well, that is your choice. I frankly think that it is an example of the prejudice with has haunted people racialized as "Gypsy" for hundreds of years. Sin e doigh
Larry