I just don’t have the energy to even begin to dissect this utter cockwaffle.
The council’s advisory committee monitoring the protection of national minorities has criticised UK ministers for cutting funding for the Cornish language, and suggested they work harder to devolve power and raise the profile of Cornish life.
On the language issue the committee was particularly scathing. “The advisory committee was disconcerted to learn that the UK government decided to cut all funding for the Cornish language,” it said. “The committee strongly regrets a decision which is considered to have a major impact on the continued revitalisation of the language.”
I think I’ll just file it under “First World Problems” and be done with it…
If people want to speak Cornish, or Gaelic, or Welsh, why should they receive English speaking taxpayer money? Speech, no matter the language, should be free, not subsidised.
Good to see that the government is cutting some pointless funding, now if it would cancel our membership of the Council of Europe and stop all funding of it, it could save even more.
Look, Diane Abbott’s clearly eating as many pasties as she can! Give her her a break*!
*And a KitKat or two.
Snork!
If they play the victim card long enough and hard enough they’ll get the kind of money wasted on Scots Gaelic by – principally – the Bullshit Broadcasting Corporation.
I went on a trip to Wales with my job the other week. Flicking around the FM radio stations I came across radio ads in Welsh. The interesting thing is that they are peppered with English words for new things that there isn’t a Welsh word for.
Regarding minority languages, if there are people who are concerned that they are dying out and who wish to preserve them then it is up to them to do something about it. What is the government getting involved for?
I lived in Wales during my teens and found the English words peppering the conversations amusing then – back in the mid-seventies.
And this kind of borrowing from other languages is exactly why English has so many words.