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From: deb5@midway.uchicago.edu (Daniel von Brighoff)
Subject: Active Irish speakers [was: Re: State Intervention on...English
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In article <5f10tq$7ob@hil-news-svc-5.compuserve.com>,
Stephen Heneghan <106020.3315@compuserve.com> wrote:
>deb5@midway.uchicago.edu (Daniel von Brighoff) wrote:
>
>>In article <3311A572.167EB0E7@pia.bt.co.uk>,
>>Alwyn Thomas  <alwyn@pia.bt.co.uk> wrote:
>
>>>I also believe that the Irish government's language policy is by no
>>>means a total failure: many people who are proficient in Irish today
>>>would not know it at all if they had not first been taught it at school.
>
>>It depends what you mean by "proficient".  I've yet to meet an active
>>Irish user who learned it in school. 
>
>I've met plenty. You're obviously not moving in the right circles.

Obviously.  So how many is "plenty" and how many and varied are the
domains in which they use Irish?

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