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    Gaelic and Scots now recognised as official languages
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    Gaelic and Scots now recognised as official languages

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    1. Expensive-Scholar-50 on

      Anyone else feeling like economies of scale has gone out the window with the UK? Everything is so complicated now, with devolution in paticular, and we keep voting in more laws that make it even more so. Languages? Complicated. Tax? Complicated. Benefits? Complicated. And we wonder why the state costs so much to run. 

    2. Loose-Map-5947 on

      As an Englishman…

      About fucking time I never understood why the other languages didn’t get the recognition they deserved just need to add Lallans, Irish and Cornish to the list

    3. Minimum-Geologist-58 on

      Scots I get but Gaelic? Nearly everybody stopped speaking it by 14c it’s like resurrecting Old English as a national language because one of my History lecturers could speak it.

    4. Inside-Judgment6233 on

      Good. These languages are super interesting and sometimes they need a bit of help to be preserved. I’d love to know more about the pre-Saxon history of the United Kingdom.

    5. SignalButterscotch73 on

      Took them long enough. I was expecting it when I was a kid in 99 when the parliament opened. Hard to believe it’s taken over 25 years.

    6. Kaiserhawk on

      Cool, I guess. But unless you do anything with them other than slap them on road signs and police cars they’re functionally dead.

      And thats coming from someone from Scotland from a traditionally gaelic speaking family.

    7. GrayAceGoose on

      Have we learnt nothing, why are we trying to rebuild another tower of babel? What a waste of time, money, and fresh air. Likewise with Welsh but same goes for Scotland, anything other than the English langauge for public civic life in the United Kingdom is not inclusive communication: it is divisive, disuniting, and ultimately disrespectful to literally everyone else.