Andrew Marr and gaidhlig

You can run away if you like , but im simply asking what you think you corrected in my earlier post .? As ever , it appears to be a figment of that over active imagination of yours that comes into play on these politics boards.

 This silly history lesson is. irrelevant to my earlier point , that both the English , then later British passports were multi lingual , and often those languages served no useful purpose outside of being heritage languages in both the states mentioned .
  

ah back to claiming an explanation , that doesn't wash , and you havent given , in what passes for earlier posts.

Do the Belgians and irish for example have major issues with bi lingual roadsigns that perhaps causes crashes , that we Scots best avoid ? Or are you inventing things once again you cant back up ?

What is it in your feverish insular British nationalist imagination that makes scotland uniquely unsuited to multi lingual signs that are taken for the norm in countries worldwide?

can you explain it to us mere mortals happy?

Or this … “ There is not a single person in Scotland who can only read and understand place names if they are written in Gaelic, nor is there a single person in Scotland who can read and understand place names written in Gaelic but cannot also read and understand place names written in English. I think that we can be pretty confident that the same applies to visitors to Scotland. That being the case, how is important information better conveyed by adding Gaelic versions of place names alongside English place names on rail and road signs (or by adding Gaelic versions of public service providers on police, ambulance and fire service vehicle livery alongside their English equivalents for that matter) ? Rather than add anything in terms of key understanding to the user, the addition of Gaelic to such signs overloads them with superfluous zero value information, making them unnecessarily more confusing than they need to be and thereby rendering them less effective in their primary objective of communicating key information to users. If we really want to improve user benefit and to do some good by adding a second language place name and service provider option to such signage and vehicle livery then let it be a language that a meaningful amount of non-English reading residents of, or visitors to, Scotland are familiar with “ ?

I answered this earlier. Can you not read?

I can read and understand the name Glasgow , on road signs, but why , as a native Glaswegian , should roadsigns in my city be written in a foreign language in a pronounciation the majority do not use?

I can read the French word passport , and the name United Kingdom on my passport , but why do the British government therefore think it of use to put both the Gaelic and Welsh versions of United Kingdom of our passports , but the Scots government cant also do the same for road and rail signs?

Can you answer the question ?

I can read as you clearly already know, so cease with the Neddy corner boy behaviour please.if you answered it earlier then I have either not read your post or decided that it doesn’t merit a response.

Road signs don’t have to be in a foreign language if those providing the signage don’t want to put a foreign language on those signs. The only valid reason for doing so is if it adds value to the messaging for some sign users, more value than the detriment incurred through loading more information onto the sign would bring for other users.

How do you know that the British Government think it of use to add Gaelic text to our passports? If Gaelic is included in our passports then, just like our rail and road signs, it provides zero improved clarity to the user or to those viewing our passports when they are presented with them. This is just unnecessary clutter which, I imagine, was only added to placate vacuous whingeing from some of our fellow Scots at some stage or another.

do you have evidence that people in scotland dont want Gaelic or Scots roadsigns?


I dont. Do you have evidence they dont?

 The point once again is why you havent once moaned about the British doing to 51 million passports that the scot gov or welsh ( or many many other countries have done) to roadsigns.

 Have you found evidence of roadsigns difficulties in countries where multi lingual signs are used ? or are you going to run away and ignore the point after taking great pains to repeat it time and again.

 

Why shoudnt we?