hagbard_celine
30-06-2007, 12:14 PM
A silly question you might think. Of course English is a language; it’s the language we use on this forum to wrangle with each other. But the question could batter be phrased as: Is English a single language? If you look at a map of Europe in the Phillips atlas showing language distribution, you’ll see that all of Britain is coloured pink, the colour of the Germanic group, with just a tiny patch of grey, the colour of the Celtic group, in west Wales and the Western Isles of Scotland. The map states that all of Great Britain, except for the small Welsh and Gaelic-speaking areas, is English-speaking. It’s certainly true that in all of the pink places on that map you’ll be able to use the language of this forum and be understood. But if you listen to the people in some of those pink places talking amongst themselves and it’s a different matter. A Geordie, a Yorkshireman or a broad Glaswegian is almost as hard for me to understand as an Italian, a Turk or a Czech. Yet officially these people are speaking English. But this didn’t stop the producers of the movie “Trainspotting” putting English subtitles on it when it was screened in the United States. Why? It’s set in Edinburgh, so the people in it are speaking in English, are they not? In the comedy series “I’m Alan Partridge” Alan has a Geordie friend called Michael who is so incomprehensible that in one episode Alan suggests that he carries a signboard around with him to write on it what he wants to say! The truth is that there are dialects spoken in Britain and other English-speaking countries that have distinct differences in grammar, pronunciation and vocabulary to the language I’m using now. They’re no doubt very similar and you may say that this is a good reason to classify them as variations of English, but then when you look at how linguists classify other languages you’ll see they judge them by different rules.
My mother was a Dutchwoman and when I was a kid I introduced her to my South African friend, a boy called John. I was amazed to hear them talking to each other in Dutch. Later on I found out that John was not speaking Dutch, he was speaking Afrikaans. I asked my mum how they could speak together and she said: “Afrkaans is just a type of Dutch”. And she’s right. Afrikaans was introduced to South Africa by Dutch settlers, the people who became known as the Boers. Belgium supposedly also has its own language: Flemish, but Flemish is also just a kind of Dutch. Speakers of Netherlands Dutch, the language we call Dutch can easily hold a conversation with a Flemish-speaker. In other words, Netherlands Dutch, Flemish and Afrikaans are not really languages in their own right at all, they are merely three different dialects of the same language. They’re a lot more similar than Cockney is from Glaswegian; or Yorkshire is from Geordie. There are many other examples. But if you turn back to that atlas you’ll see that Flemish and Dutch are given pride of place on the map as distinct languages, as different from each other as any other. How different that map would look if we applied those same rules to English. The sad thing is that dialects are getting less broad nowadays and youths are giving them up in favour of trendy “street talk” like Dread and Speed-pyke. The island of Great Britain would be a glorious diverse array of tongues. Also many countries now that are officially Enlgish-speaking would no longer be, especially the islands of the Caribbean and parts of the United States with their creoles and patois. This is what led me to my next thought:
There must be political reason for this. I’m not sure what; maybe other members can enlighten me. It may have something to do with the British Empire and the way that the English language was seen as a mark of political supremacy. Today, more than ever, English is fast becoming the lingua franca of the world. It has 400 million native speakers, second only to Chinese, but it has over a billion who use it as a second language and that number is rising. It is taught as a foreign language more than any other. This makes me feel sad and upset. I was born in west Wales and grew up among Welsh-speaking relatives. But I’ve lost touch with them and as I grew up I lost my Welsh. I feel I’ve been robbed of my cultural heritage. I’ve been relearning it, but why should I? The problem is that English was used to “tame the natives” in the days of the Empire. Unhappily this process is not only still going on, but it’s accelerating! A Filipino friend of mine at work says that some Filipinos are giving up their own languages entirely and raising their children as English monoglots! Apparently it gives them status in the Philippines. They get better education and jobs. I asked him why he doesn’t value his own unique languages and he said: “No. English is the future. Tagalog and the island languages are only for stupid losers.” I feel like chewing my gas cylinder spanner as I hear this!
There are about 4000 languages spoken in the world today. That might sound like a lot, but if you go back only to the 17th Century there were more than 15,000! So more than 2/3 of human languages have died out in the last 300 years. It gets worse! Of the 4000 survivors, over 99% of people in the world speak only the top 100 most widely-spoken of those languages. It means that 3800 of today's languages are under threat. These include Gaelic in this country. My own ancestral tongue, Welsh, came very close to extinction during the early 20th Century.
I think that the Illuminati plan is to have just a handful of languages in the NWO; English, Chinese and maybe one more, Spanish or Hindi perhaps. But these languages would not be the rich, creative vehicles of thought and expression that Shakespeare used. No, they would all be degenerated into a basic, plastic verbal instruction code for practical daily purposes only; in other words Orwell's "Newspeak". English would be reduced to a vocabulary of about 2000 simple words; and they probably wouldn't be words as we know them, but 3-letter codes. The grammar would be regularized, e.g.: the strong past participle of verbs like "run" would become "runned" rather than the natural English "ran". The conditional tense would probably be removed altogether.
So by speaking natural language you are fighting back against the Illuminati in a very important way. If you speak a minority ancestral language then use it! That's good advice for me; I'll work hard to better my Welsh and keep in contact with my Welsh family. I might as well get started now!:
"Mae Caru Anfeidrol yn Y Gwirionedd yn unig, mae popeth arall yn Lledrith." David Icke
My mother was a Dutchwoman and when I was a kid I introduced her to my South African friend, a boy called John. I was amazed to hear them talking to each other in Dutch. Later on I found out that John was not speaking Dutch, he was speaking Afrikaans. I asked my mum how they could speak together and she said: “Afrkaans is just a type of Dutch”. And she’s right. Afrikaans was introduced to South Africa by Dutch settlers, the people who became known as the Boers. Belgium supposedly also has its own language: Flemish, but Flemish is also just a kind of Dutch. Speakers of Netherlands Dutch, the language we call Dutch can easily hold a conversation with a Flemish-speaker. In other words, Netherlands Dutch, Flemish and Afrikaans are not really languages in their own right at all, they are merely three different dialects of the same language. They’re a lot more similar than Cockney is from Glaswegian; or Yorkshire is from Geordie. There are many other examples. But if you turn back to that atlas you’ll see that Flemish and Dutch are given pride of place on the map as distinct languages, as different from each other as any other. How different that map would look if we applied those same rules to English. The sad thing is that dialects are getting less broad nowadays and youths are giving them up in favour of trendy “street talk” like Dread and Speed-pyke. The island of Great Britain would be a glorious diverse array of tongues. Also many countries now that are officially Enlgish-speaking would no longer be, especially the islands of the Caribbean and parts of the United States with their creoles and patois. This is what led me to my next thought:
There must be political reason for this. I’m not sure what; maybe other members can enlighten me. It may have something to do with the British Empire and the way that the English language was seen as a mark of political supremacy. Today, more than ever, English is fast becoming the lingua franca of the world. It has 400 million native speakers, second only to Chinese, but it has over a billion who use it as a second language and that number is rising. It is taught as a foreign language more than any other. This makes me feel sad and upset. I was born in west Wales and grew up among Welsh-speaking relatives. But I’ve lost touch with them and as I grew up I lost my Welsh. I feel I’ve been robbed of my cultural heritage. I’ve been relearning it, but why should I? The problem is that English was used to “tame the natives” in the days of the Empire. Unhappily this process is not only still going on, but it’s accelerating! A Filipino friend of mine at work says that some Filipinos are giving up their own languages entirely and raising their children as English monoglots! Apparently it gives them status in the Philippines. They get better education and jobs. I asked him why he doesn’t value his own unique languages and he said: “No. English is the future. Tagalog and the island languages are only for stupid losers.” I feel like chewing my gas cylinder spanner as I hear this!
There are about 4000 languages spoken in the world today. That might sound like a lot, but if you go back only to the 17th Century there were more than 15,000! So more than 2/3 of human languages have died out in the last 300 years. It gets worse! Of the 4000 survivors, over 99% of people in the world speak only the top 100 most widely-spoken of those languages. It means that 3800 of today's languages are under threat. These include Gaelic in this country. My own ancestral tongue, Welsh, came very close to extinction during the early 20th Century.
I think that the Illuminati plan is to have just a handful of languages in the NWO; English, Chinese and maybe one more, Spanish or Hindi perhaps. But these languages would not be the rich, creative vehicles of thought and expression that Shakespeare used. No, they would all be degenerated into a basic, plastic verbal instruction code for practical daily purposes only; in other words Orwell's "Newspeak". English would be reduced to a vocabulary of about 2000 simple words; and they probably wouldn't be words as we know them, but 3-letter codes. The grammar would be regularized, e.g.: the strong past participle of verbs like "run" would become "runned" rather than the natural English "ran". The conditional tense would probably be removed altogether.
So by speaking natural language you are fighting back against the Illuminati in a very important way. If you speak a minority ancestral language then use it! That's good advice for me; I'll work hard to better my Welsh and keep in contact with my Welsh family. I might as well get started now!:
"Mae Caru Anfeidrol yn Y Gwirionedd yn unig, mae popeth arall yn Lledrith." David Icke