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| Babygael |
Soighnichean Da`-chananach/Bi-lingual signageI came across this on the TIBS forum and thought I would post it here,hopefully some folk will sign it i have emailed it all over the place.it would seem that the link on the emails goes directly to the correct page
http://www.petitionOnline.com/Certas/gaelicroadsigns/petition.html Unortunately this link will not go directly to the petition page so if you want to look it over and hopefully sign you'll have to type in  ..gaelic road signs petition... in the search engine.
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| azzuri |
This link will take you straight to the petition:
http://www.petitiononline.com/Ceartas/ 
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| Babygael |
Moran taing azzuri,I tried every which way! LOL Yo de man!
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| elidir |
Cyfarchion Babygael, Azurri, I was wondering if you think it appropriate/innappropriate for me to sign this petition also. What do you think? I am sincerely supportive of such an obviously basic requirement but I don't live in Scotland. What do you think lads, would my signature as a fellow Celt and Celtic language speaker be welcome or is it something you feel should be an internal issue to Scotland? | ||||
| garye |
Feasgar math, elidir I say sign it, supporters of minority languages all have to help each other out. Gary |
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| neil8r |
I've just seen this topic and i'm wondering how much would it cost to change all the signs in the Highland area? I would have thought this would be quite a large expense and that perhaps the money could be used more productively to expand the Gaelic language again in other ways.
It's a shame that nobody thought to put this forward as a millenium project back when all that was happening, i would have thought that would have been a great way to have it funded. |
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| wisnaeme |
Aye, you would have thought so and no doubt some folk did. Surely a tiny amount of the funds available at the time would have benefited such, but apparently it was thought that spending a large amount of the funds available on a tent in the south east of the UK was of more benefit to a UK identity by way of a millenium project in which we could all celebrate together, by the way. No doubt political jobsworths and others would have automatically condemned the very idea of signs in a foreign language as nationalistic and to give it consideration would thus undermine the very ideal of UK identity. Misguided thought processes,I know but there you have it. It's all right to have a regional identity if it does not interfere with or go against a single UK identity with a single power base in which all the meaningful decisions concerning the UK abroad are taken for the benefit of the UK identity and not for the benefit of the individual regions within. . |
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| Babygael |
Cost has nothing to do with it!! nationasl ID is everything!! Cost be damned! | ||||
| SLG |
I think the present policy is that the signs are only being replaced with bilingual signs when they are required to be replaced anyway. So the only extra cost is making the sign a wee bit bigger and a few more lines of text. In terms of the overall cost, this is not particularly significant IIRC. |
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| neil8r |
If thats the case then i would fully support that |
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| Cymro |
That is certainly the case with bilingual signs in Wales, a fair few in certain areas are still English only because they haven't been updated yet. While I agree that doing it this way I think a deadline also needs to be set, it's taking the mick that 13 years after the Welsh Language Act came into being certain signs are still Monolingual - and look a lot younger than 13 years old! | ||||