* Posts by antony

2 publicly visible posts • joined 2 Feb 2009

BBC pumps 60 quid a head into Gaelic

antony

Gaelic language support

The tone of the article suggests that the author is not fully supportive of the goverment maintainance of dead languages. However, as more than 75% of workers in Scotland work for the Government, local or national, the Government has got to keept those idle hands busy. Making paint and television programmes no one watches (no one with money anyway) is as good a way as any.

Birmingham drops the possessive apostrophe

antony

Apostrophe

I am not 100% certain that we should worry about what Birmingham does. We should be concerned if the practice of not bothering, which is what Birmingham is doing, spreads.