And the BBC have just commemorated the centenary of the first Gaelic broadcasts from Aberdeen.
So I’m always one to bash Gaelic when I can.
Grew up in the Highlands and always resented how much money was spent on Gaelic education.
BUT – 27 students studying it in 2021 doesn’t seem like a course that needs to be shut. Especially if the bulk of them are doing joint honours???
Most of the people I knew studying a language at Uni (Aberdeen) were joint honours.
How long before she’s asking for money for coffee to keep her warm during her protests?!
The Internet has irrevocably destroyed authentic local culture. All of western human society has been amalgamated together into an amorphous grey, homogenous blob of ersatz American Internet culture (American culture being itself a pale imitation of what it once was). No amount of Gaelic teaching will ever bring it back in any kind of an authentic way. That’s just a fact. You cannot have the same authentic culture as 18th century crofters on the isle of Lewis whilst simultaneously having access to an entire world of entertainment and information at your fingertips via the hi-tech device that you carry everywhere with you in your pocket. Information technology breaks down the barriers between different regions of the world that allowed each to have their own distinctive and vibrant culture. Once you remove those barriers, they all blend together. That is simply the price you pay, and trying to reverse that process is no less futile than trying to reverse entropy.
But I also don’t understand how people think it can be economically viable for a university to have a whole degree program for about 3 students.
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Bad move from Aberdeen Uni given it’s only 2 years since they opened the Ionad Eòghainn MhicLachlainn The National Centre for Gaelic Translation.
[https://gaelictranslation.org/](https://gaelictranslation.org/)
And the BBC have just commemorated the centenary of the first Gaelic broadcasts from Aberdeen.
So I’m always one to bash Gaelic when I can.
Grew up in the Highlands and always resented how much money was spent on Gaelic education.
BUT – 27 students studying it in 2021 doesn’t seem like a course that needs to be shut. Especially if the bulk of them are doing joint honours???
Most of the people I knew studying a language at Uni (Aberdeen) were joint honours.
How long before she’s asking for money for coffee to keep her warm during her protests?!
The Internet has irrevocably destroyed authentic local culture. All of western human society has been amalgamated together into an amorphous grey, homogenous blob of ersatz American Internet culture (American culture being itself a pale imitation of what it once was). No amount of Gaelic teaching will ever bring it back in any kind of an authentic way. That’s just a fact. You cannot have the same authentic culture as 18th century crofters on the isle of Lewis whilst simultaneously having access to an entire world of entertainment and information at your fingertips via the hi-tech device that you carry everywhere with you in your pocket. Information technology breaks down the barriers between different regions of the world that allowed each to have their own distinctive and vibrant culture. Once you remove those barriers, they all blend together. That is simply the price you pay, and trying to reverse that process is no less futile than trying to reverse entropy.
But I also don’t understand how people think it can be economically viable for a university to have a whole degree program for about 3 students.