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Thread #69403   Message #1178215
Posted By: George Papavgeris
05-May-04 - 03:53 AM
Thread Name: Irish language speakers
Subject: RE: Irish language speakers
GUEST,Statesetc, you say in a previous post "Why do people learn Irish when it would be more productive to learn French, Spanish, Italian, Russian, anything but bloody pointless Irish?".

I will try to point out the obvious to you: One does not only learn languages for productivity reasons. Some of us do it to understand other cultures better and benefit from that.

And don't try that "dead culture" horse-poo either. Peoples die. Languages die out. Cultures always exist, even if nobody espouses them, as long as their artifacts and products exist.

Why, some of us even sing old/ancient songs for similar reasons.

And then again, others like you just like to troll. Do us all a favour and get back into your box. We'll call you when we need you.