Hoi!
And consider also that (like you
AFAIK) I don't live in Friuli, so I can't access to many sources
normally.
Yes... most speakers of Italian minority languages seem to be either
emigrants or foreigners that live in Italy and are immune to the
nationalistic pressure. It's sad that my piemontese friends in Kazakhstan
find it more normal to write in PMS than Italian residents do. One more
example of why nations are bad for your health, me thinks :)
This is a problem that people usually think is limited
to
developing countries, but it affects also smaller, minorized language
in the Western world.
Yes. Size is size, no matter where you are from. We basically
have the
problems that any low-alphabetized language has.
That of the forum could be a good idea, IMHO
this would be very useful (I'm thinking for example at bots for
international stuff like countries, or domains).
Okay. Have this as a formal
promise from the western to the eastern Alps. If
we don't have one from wmf by the end of the month I'll open one myself at
my expenses. It will be open to everyone, but focused on wikies our size.
About school, you touch a big issue. Teaching is
already mentioned in
1999 minority law, but it should *probably* start next year;
I know how big that
*probably* is. On the opposite side of the Alps we have
the left wings using a law written by the right wings (a law they opposed
like crazy when they were the opposition) to delete even the mention of the
piemontese language from all public documents. Same kind of stuff is
happening south, AFAIK.
No matter what Law you can obtain you always end up in front of an officer
who will rather destroy the Colosseum in Rome than change his personal
schedule. He will obviously call that a "defense of the Integrity of the
Nation" (when there is a right-wing government) or an "anti-racist policy"
(when it's the leftists in power). Public officers are indifferent to
changes; they simply load the current language file and keep saying the some
thing in the proper translation :)))))))))))))))))))))))
CGIL (which is one of the main trade
unions in Italy) is opposing since "the 50% of the teacher come from
elsewhere, and they don't speak Friulian.
LOLOLOL how heroic of them!! Will
they also oppose teaching geography, based
on the fact that more than 50% of the teachers are specialized in other
issues? :))))) Why should we have canals in Venice?? Most Italians drive
cars, not gondolas :)))))))))))))) What about a ritual mass suicide to
conform to the fact that most of our ancestors are dead? :)))))))))))))))
I mean, that's the teachers... go figure out the intellectual level of a 17
y.o. football hooligan in Italy... on a second thought... with such a school
he will have just the level it takes for him to support any of the existing
Italian political parties, i.e. the lower his culture level, the better for
the establishment (mafia) :)))))))))))))))) School IS efficient, after all
:)))))))))
See you soon with some final news on the forum.
Bèrto d Sèra
Personagi dlann 2006 për larvista american-a Time (tanme tuti vojàotri)
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1569514,00.html