Re: :-)

On Jul 21, 6:25 pm, "Peter T. Daniels" <gramma...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Jul 21, 9:53 am, Craoibhi...@xxxxxxxxx wrote:



On Jul 21, 2:37 pm, "Peter T. Daniels" <gramma...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Jul 21, 5:16 am, Craoibhi...@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

On Jul 21, 5:57 am, "Peter T. Daniels" <gramma...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Jul 20, 5:26 pm, Craoibhi...@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

On Jul 21, 12:02 am, Joachim Pense <s...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Peter T. Daniels (in sci.lang):

On Jul 20, 12:41 pm, Craoibhi...@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

What is this wacko talking about? Having your argument in Irish is
obviously depriving the rest of us of a great deal of entertainment!

What is the role of native speakers of Irish today? Are there many left? How
influential are they?

There are about eighty thousand left. Among the more influential ones
are Maria Mc Cool the singer, Seán Ó Neachtain the MEP, Lillis Ó
Laoire the sean-nós singer and PhD...well, take your pick. I have met
Ó Neachtain, Lillis I haven't met personally, but we have written e-
mail to each other...well, there is an awful lot of them, many of them
are culturally active, but we could welcome some more.

So I was wrong to state that the language is not moribund?

Define "moribund". If moribund means "spoken by one hundred people in

It's a technical term in the study of language death. It means the
language is not being passed on to young children and will disappear
in the next generation.

In that sense, Irish is obviously not moribund.

some faraway village", Irish is not moribund. It is difficult to say
how moribund Irish is. There are definitely societal factors working
both to the advantage and the detriment of Irish.

What makes them "influential"?

Do you mean influential in the Irish-speaking community, or in Ireland
at large?

I don't know. It's your word.

It was not my word.

I quote:

"> > There are about eighty thousand left. Among the more influential
ones

are Maria Mc Cool the singer, Seán Ó Neachtain the MEP, Lillis Ó
Laoire the sean-nós singer and PhD...well, take your pick. I have met "
But anyway, there are native speakers with high
status in the Irish-language subculture, and I would say Seán Ó
Neachtain, who addresses the European Parliament in Irish, is an
influential personality in Irish society at large.

Does he cause infants to speak Irish as their native language? Does he
cause Anglophone Irishpersons to speak Irish?

I see you are in the trolling mode again, so it is no use arguing with
you.
.

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