Re: France and Breton

-------Original Message-------   From: djonma - LJ Comment Date: 06/11/2009 21:39:09 To: bynwalters@libertysurf.fr Subject: Re: France and Breton   Just some person (djonma) replied to a comment you left in a LiveJournal post. The comment they replied to was: You could just as well be speaking about France, they've always been guilty of cultural genocide against their own citizens; there are numerous languages in France spoken by historical regions and countries, but everyone was forced to speak Langued'oïl which they call 'French', in the same way that the French call Mandarin 'Chinese'. In the 1920's after a third of the Breton male population gave their lives for France, the Government decided to extirminate the Breton Language, as it was thought bad for the unity of the State. The Bretons were also made to believe that it was a useless language which wouldn't lead them anywhere, some people believed the propaganda, but not everybody, and now there's a slight revival and a new awareness, even from the State run schools. Their reply was: Subject: Re: France and Breton Yeah, how many people speak Langue D'Occ anymore? Though... with the internet there HAS been a resurgence in that. Which is quite a wonderful thing. There is a project somewhere, and damnit I can't find the link now, I think it was posted here a while back, of preserving all languages, and they have DVDs with bits of all languages on them in tiny, tiny letters/syllables/etc It's pretty awesome From here, you can: View the thread starting from this comment View the thread this comment is a part of View all comments to this entry Reply at the webpage If your mail client supports it, you can also reply here: Subject: Message