--- In Nostratica@yahoogroups.com, "Richard Wordingham
<richard.wordingham@...>" <richard.wordingham@...> wrote:

> --- In Nostratica@yahoogroups.com, "tgpedersen <tgpedersen@...>"
> <tgpedersen@...> wrote:
> > --- In Nostratica@yahoogroups.com, "Gerry" <waluk@...> wrote:
> > > You mean that British is actually southern Celtic? Am I
> > misinformed about Irish folks speaking Celtic? Then what do the
> > Irish speak? Gaelic?
> > >
> > > Gerry
> >
> > I don't think Celtic-speaking Irish would like you calling them
> > Brits, since the majority of them live in the Republic of

Ireland,

> a
> > state that was created because its inhabitats did not want to be
> > British.
> >
> > Torsten
>
> The Celtic-speaking Irish would probably be more tolerant than the
> English-speaking Irish 'nationalists'!
>
> Richard.

Hitchhiking into Dublin, I asked the van driver if he could read
the city name in small letters under the big ones (always the curious
(socio)linguist). Mistake.
And in an Irish pub, I asked them why they had a separate nation
when they didn't have a separate language. The things you do when you
are young!

Torsten