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Thread #45881   Message #682784
Posted By: greg stephens
04-Apr-02 - 10:17 AM
Thread Name: Twa Corbies - transl. into Engl, please
Subject: RE: Twa Corbies - transl. into Engl, please
Wish I'd never used the words Celtic language inthe previous message.More bollocks has been talked on that subject than any other I can think of.Some clever bloke in the 17th century(Iforget his name) spotted the very real connections between Breton, Welsh, Cornish, Irish , Scottish and Manx Gaelic and called them Celtic, after the people who used to live north of Greece; (he thought the two groups might connected in some way). If only he'd called them"northwest seaboard languages" or something what a lot ofproblems of self-identity a lot of people might have been spared. On the other hand, what a lot of enjoyable ill-informed circular arguments we'd have failed to enjoy.