[rollei_list] Re: Happy New Year!


----- Original Message ----- From: "Marc James Small" <msmall@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, December 31, 2005 4:36 PM
Subject: [rollei_list] Re: Happy New Year!


At 12:10 AM 1/1/06 +0000, jon.stanton@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
Blwyddyn Newydd Dda 

I studied Welsh in college to acquire access to the early
Welsh poetry for
a paper I wrote on Sub-Roman Britain.  I have kept up with
my studies of
Irish and Scots Gaelic (there is only one Gaelic language,
though with five
dialects.  Unfortunately, that of Leinster is extinct, and
it marked the
transition from Connaught, Ulster, and Munster Gaelic to
Scots Gaelic, so
they now seem to be distinct tongues though they are not so.
I visited
Ireland in 2001 and happily chattered away in pubs in Scots
Gaelic and the
barkeeps obviously understood me, though I was surprised
that none found
exception to an obvious US tourist speaking some of the
Gaelic.)

Welsh is a really grand tongue and it shows its heritage
from having been
the primary language of a proud and vibrant Roman province.

Marc

  Marc, you may be iterested that the BBC has both Scots
and Irish Gaelic and Welsh language programs on the
internet. Go to http://www.bbc.co.uk  At the top will be a
place to click on either the International Version (it will
come up in this version) or the UK version. Click on the UK
version and you will find a list of services near the
bottom. Click on "All BBC Radio"  In that list is one headed
"Local To You" which includes:

English local radio
Radio Scotland
Radio Wales
Radio Ulster
Radio Cymru
Radio Foyle
Radio Nan Gaidheal

   some of these offer both English and local language,
some are local language only.

---
Richard Knoppow
Los Angeles, CA, USA
dickburk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

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