Northern Ireland 2125?

Did anyone learn about south africa in school??? Perhaps show me what school subject curriculum kids are thought about the 12 official languages of south africa. Anyway some of those 12 official languages some are tribe languages.

Now back to where we live, ireland. You said a few decades ago noone in NI could speak irish. That shows you your level of knowledge on this subject. Go off and buy an angle grinder you bigot.

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Yeh, you went 'through it' with your 'oooooh you're gonna regret that' rubbish.

I have no need to 'refute' your anti-Irish scaremongering.

I understand CnG's reasoning and expert balanced assessments of what the problems are and what the needs are.

I don't need to refute anything. I am secure in my understanding of the expert opinion on the matter.
I reacted to your 'ooooooooooh you're gonna regret that' anti-Irish language (nothing new from your keyboard TBH) scaremonger.

I am fully researched on CnG's expert opinion on the structural problems and how to overcome them and how to make the sector sustainable.

And worrying (or in your case salivating) about new career paths opening up in the EU is not something they are doing.

Review your faux superiority would be my advice.

If you agreed with the above analogy then every place name that was named first in irish ( which would be i am guessing be about 90%+place names in NI) would just have the irish name as it was there first and therefore was wring to change it. So yes the above analogy would mean that belfast would just be known as Bear Feriste. Only names that derived first in english like king street would not need to be translated as it was always known as king street. Do you want that?

Irish is an official language of NI - wakey wakey

Yes 2022 and the democratically agreed recognition of that is being rolled out across NI. The Irish language is everywhere and will be in more places as befits an official language.

That analogy that itsacoolday suggested which you agreed with was that you should not change existing names regardless of what language it is in.

They said if thier son is christened peter it should not be changed to peadar just because he is surrounded by a majority of irish speakers. Then the recipicol argument is that if the kid is christened Peadar it should not be changed to peter if surrounded by a majority of english speakers.

Massive own goal by you both. One for suggesting it and the other agreeing with it.

You are wrong there. In the analogy, the person called Peter Smith or whatever it was did not want his name changed to Irish, but had to because a slight majority of people in the workplace wanted bi-lingual everything.

The people in PUL areas in Belfast do not want bi-lingual signs but have to if only 15% of people in the area want them.

WHO has proposed bi-lingual name badges?

Please back up some of this rubbish commentary.

It was Pearse who said it originally.

With Unionists throwing their toys out of the pram over having to look at a small bit of Irish and showing YET again they are not willing to countenance equality and parity of esteem, Pearse might have been right.

I'll rephrase it so.

It was a hypothetical situation, showing if it is wrong to make a persons name bi-lingual, with a bi-lingual name badge ( compared to what he was always known as in living memory, and against his wishes), it is also wrong to make a streets name bi-lingual ( compared to what it was always known and in living memory) when it is against the resident's wishes. Especially when the residents think it is being done to taunt. And you have the cheek to try to tell us there would be no taunting of minorities in a U.I.

Now, again, do you believe what Kneecap said many times : "every word of Irish is a bullet for Irish freedom"?

A yes or no answer will suffice. No more deflecting please.

Please do us all a favour, buy a dictionary and look up 'metaphorical' . Metaphorically, yes, every word of irish IS a bullet for Irish freedom as its reversing one of the first things the invaders did, which was destroy the irish language. Did you really need that explained to you? really?

I agree with the democratic decision of a majority of democratically elected representatives.

You want a veto for those who fail to get a democratic majority and think angle grinder wielding thugs are the answer to that inability and the lack of a supremacist veto.