General election 2015

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Fox in reply to @dubkev

Your response to them speaking in their own language is pretty childish - and actually nationalistic ("why can't they just speak English?") despite your own views about it. Maybe they just want to? Maybe they're interested in the history and sound and feeling of it - before another country came along and wiped it out.

No, it's not. They don't really speak gaelic, they never spoke it or were interested in it before. They have suddenly decided they want to start speaking it because of the rampant nationalism being whipped up by the SNP. If they were native speakers of gaelic and just wanted to speak it fine, and I don't care if they do, but in this context it is so forced and painful. And it is designed to deliberately exclude those who do not speak gaelic.

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dubkev in reply to @Fox

If they were native speakers of gaelic and just wanted to speak it fine, and I don't care if they do, but in this context it is so forced and painful. And it is designed to deliberately exclude those who do not speak gaelic.

What do you care? Let them alone, let them do what they want, stop trying to make them English - An entire bloody empire was built on that premise, which I don't think anyone would look back with admiration on.

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