I think that these are sensible ideas from Robin. The draft policy is a bit
complex, and may not all be doable for an organisation of our size, but
language diversity is a laudable goal, and something we should work towards.
Speaking from a purely financial point of view, it's a wonderful thing to
put in our FDC reports and our emails to donors. It will also be much
easier to support cy-wp if there's a basic smattering of ideas in Welsh -
even if it's just the Activity Plan and Annual Report, it gives our Welsh
speakers a good idea of what's happening.
I'll talk to Daria about updating the advert, but it might be a bit late
now - big GLAMs usually require signoff on job descriptions, and the job,
although funded by us, isn't being advertised by us. We'll do what we can,
though!
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On 24 April 2013 15:18, geni <geniice(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 24 April 2013 13:43, info(a)cymruwales.com <info(a)cymruwales.com> wrote:
**
Hi all
Everyone so far has agreed that the ability to Speak Gaelic would be
desirable (rather than undesirable !) Can we therefore amend the advert to
this effect?
Nope. The ability to read abbreviated medieval latin (I was in Lincoln the
other day) would be desirable however its not going to be put into the
advert.
Secondly, I've created a draft Welsh
Language Policy for your comments
here:
https://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Llywelyn2000/Welsh_Language_Policy
Let's be positive about this please. If you have negative feelings
towards minority languages, for any reasons, can I suggest you swallow
hard, count to ten and drink up your glass of milk.
Err provides way to much of an official role for english (for example if
we were to produce leaflets for the National Eisteddfod of Wales it would
be unreasonable to require that be translated into english) and
discriminates against Poles.
--
geni
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