Tag: gaelic

JK Rowling just dropped a big revelation – Hogwarts had a Gaelic Medium Unit

mathan-na-mara:

I have mixed feelings about this. The optimist in me is pleased to have support for GME in such a popular franchise. However, the realist in me is annoyed by the implication that Gaels only were assigned to Ravenclaw. Furthermore, I’m put off by the fact that there were very few known Scots, even less of them Gaels, at Hogwarts. Not to mention Rowling’s anti-indyref stance which naturally goes hand-in-hand with Unionism, Anglocentrism, and anti-Celtic/Gaelic sentiment.

JK Rowling just dropped a big revelation – Hogwarts had a Gaelic Medium Unit

mailidhonn:

mailidhonn:

Good evening everybody! Just in case you’d all thought I’d had enough and shut up about Gàidhlig I’m here to prove you wrong.

Today Edinburgh City Council posted about Gàidhlig, in Gàidhlig.

This is great and it’s wonderful to see, obviously.

Here are some of the responses.

Obviously there were Gàidhlig responses and several supportive English responses too. But I want to highlight some of what Gàidhlig speakers are subject to when the language is even used in a public sphere. Even just *seeing* it seems to set people off.

This has a very real impact on people, don’t think that it doesn’t. Someone please tell me why a language and culture deserves this much hatred on a regular basis? Do the native speakers of this language really deserve this being thrown at them?

Scotland’s a progressive and left wing nation, it welcomes all peoples, cultures and languages!

domhnall-na-feannaig:

A left wing person:  Hi, I champion the rights of minorities.

Me:  Have you heard that people in their own country, speaking one of that country’s native languages have had to fight for the right to be educated in their own language?  

LWP:  That’s awful.

Me:  Sixty years ago children were beaten in school for speaking it.

LWP:  A sign of cultural imperialism if ever I’ve heard it.

Me:  And now even slightly token support gets a load of vitriol from the right wing.  Railway signs make them foam at the mouth.

LWP:  Seeing a minority language causes people anger?  That’s so backwards.

Me:  Now they have 2.5 million over a period of 15 years to make a historical dictionary which already exists for English, its finally getting something that English speakers have taken for granted.

LWP:  That’s great!

Me:  Yeah, it’s really good that Scottish Gaelic has at least some support.

LWP:  Scottish….Gaelic?  Um, no thanks.  That’s the preserve of blood and soil nationalists and I’m always suspicious of people who support it.

Canadian Gaelic teacher loses Mull job as Home Office says ‘no shortage’ exists

domhnall-na-feannaig:

mailidhonn:

sgribhisg:

The only applicant.  The only applicant.

But, the Home Office are saying there is no shortage.

God damn it

Yeah, its no secret that the Gaelic teaching demand outstrips the Gaelic teaching supply.

Yay for the xenophobic and immigration number obsessed UK!

Canadian Gaelic teacher loses Mull job as Home Office says ‘no shortage’ exists