new LISTSERV software, Michael, Peter? mg On Fri, 10 Sep 93 00:44:47 GMT Michael Everson said: >This is extremely strange since I deleted Chip from WELSH-L (and sent >him a message explaining why) two or three days ago... MG, this is the >second message bounced back from his account.... > >Michael Everson >School of Architecture, UCD; Richview, Clonskeagh; Dublin 14; E/ire >Phone: +353 1 706-2745 Fax: +353 1 283-8908 Home: +353 1 478-2597 >----------------------------Original message---------------------------- > > >On Thu, 2 Sep 93 10:04:38 +0100 Stephen Miller said (on GAELIC-L): >>... >>``But the day when the Manx fisherman >>could freely in his native tongue to >>the Irish and Scots fishermen is past. >>... >>Stephen Miller >>stephen@vax.ox.ac.uk >Mmmm---Stephen, I remember hearing as a girl from an old Cape Clear man >now long since dead, that (I suppose it must have been in his father's >time) the Irish, the Scots and the Manx would while away time spent far >from home on fishing trips by swapping songs and stories, smart remarks >and small matters of business, in Gaelic. I look forward to the future: >your children, and the children of many on GAELIC-L, will pick up where >their people had to stop. Cross-posting this to WELSH-L, so the Cornish >subscribers there may be encouraged to learn Welsh and Breton. Prompted >to do this by a letter which arrived in the post to me yesterday, which >was written in flowing Cornish, with a parallel translation in English. >Marion Gunn > >MGUNN@IRLEARN.UCD.IE MGUNN@IRLEARN.UCD.IE