Most of the time, I have no problem with Welsh, Gaelic and Cornish language activists. They're promoting minority languages in a world that seems to be dominated mostly by English. But this is going into the "looney tunes" category, because it is silly.
A welsh-language pressure group, complaining about a proposal, not something that is definitely happening, but a proposal, that S4/C takes over the English language news on ITV Wales.
I admit it would be good if they managed to take over their own provision for news, from the BBC. But I will applaud them for having the guts to even propose a move to take on the production of ITV Wales News. Maybe it will show ITV that regional news is not regarded by every broadcast corporation as a liability, but as something to be proud of.
I agree
ReplyDeleteAlthough there are at least 7,000 languages throughout the World, and an increasing number are endangered through the linguistic imperialism of both Mandarin Chinese and English.
The following declaration was made in favour of Esperanto, by UNESCO at its Paris HQ in December 2008. http://portal.unesco.org/culture/en/ev.php-URL_ID=38420&URL_DO=DO_PRINTPAGE&URL_SECTION=201.html
The commitment to the campaign to save endangered languages was made, by the World Esperanto Association at the United Nations' Geneva HQ in September.
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=eR7vD9kChBA&feature=related or http://www.lernu.net
I hope you do not mind me passing on this information.