You are talking to a Welsh man.
English road signs started to be put up in Wales during a time when the teaching of Welsh wasn't compulsory.
The people tore them down and dumped them outside council offices.
Sound familiar?
From: "Philip S Hall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]> Subject: [USMA:32437] Re: USMA announcement Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2005 12:00:12 -0000
> All languages are valid and all languages should be supported. Dieing
> languages should be saved and encouraged (in the same way as Welsh is now
> one of the fastest growing languages in the world). However,
> English is the
> business language of the world. The compatibility within this
> situation is
> workable and good.
>
> Can you not see a parallel here?
I can see your ambivalence over the issue of compulsion. The Welsh language may be being learned increasingly but has had some help from legal compulsion.
Phil Hall
