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30th June 08, 04:43 AM
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"A veteran, whether active duty, retired, national guard or reserve, is someone who, at one point in his life, wrote a blank check made payable to "The United States of America", for an amount of "up to and including my life." That is honor, and there are way too many people in this country who no longer understand it." anon
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30th June 08, 07:58 AM
#2
 Originally Posted by Splash_4
ROTFLMAO... Priceless!
That says it all!
Brian
In a democracy it's your vote that counts; in feudalism, it's your Count that votes.
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30th June 08, 08:02 AM
#3
 That's funny! Good story!
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30th June 08, 08:09 AM
#4
It's heartening to know that they do teach English in Scottish schools. After all it is the official language of international commerce and of airline pilots...
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30th June 08, 08:15 AM
#5
hahaha, his face must of been priceless to see!
Gillmore of Clan Morrison
"Long Live the Long Shirts!"- Ryan Ross
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30th June 08, 08:25 AM
#6
ccga
It's heartening to know that they do teach English in Scottish schools. After all it is the official language of international commerce and of airline pilots...
The local school in my family glen teaches some of the time in SCot's Gaelic and they've recently opened a Gaelic-medium school in Inverness. It'll be interesting to see how well it does over the coming years. Apparently, it's over-subscribed at the moment!
I remember my grandad speaking fluent Gaelic when I was a lad in the 60s, mind, he was born in the 1890s! I also remember my mum's mum speaking fluent Welsh!
I know a handful of phrases in each, but no more, as yet.
Cheers
Bruce
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30th June 08, 02:15 PM
#7
Originally Posted by Stratherrick
ccga
The local school in my family glen teaches some of the time in SCot's Gaelic and they've recently opened a Gaelic-medium school in Inverness. It'll be interesting to see how well it does over the coming years. Apparently, it's over-subscribed at the moment!
I remember my grandad speaking fluent Gaelic when I was a lad in the 60s, mind, he was born in the 1890s! I also remember my mum's mum speaking fluent Welsh!
I know a handful of phrases in each, but no more, as yet.
Cheers
Bruce
It's great that they're not forgeting the language of old in school, but if not encouraged to use fairly often it'll be soon forgotten.
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30th June 08, 06:26 PM
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A lot more Gaidhlig schools are opening all over Scotland.
For a long time they were very insular and you could only attend Gaidhlig speaking schools or classes if you already had a certain amount of the language.
Now they've realised that people haven't been teaching their children and it's dying off they've really started pumping money into it to help people learn.
Which is very much a good thing!!!
Originally Posted by Stratherrick
ccga
The local school in my family glen teaches some of the time in SCot's Gaelic and they've recently opened a Gaelic-medium school in Inverness. It'll be interesting to see how well it does over the coming years. Apparently, it's over-subscribed at the moment!
I remember my grandad speaking fluent Gaelic when I was a lad in the 60s, mind, he was born in the 1890s! I also remember my mum's mum speaking fluent Welsh!
I know a handful of phrases in each, but no more, as yet.
Cheers
Bruce
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