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So Australians and New Zealanders are really English then? Austrians are just Germans? Tom Send a noteboard - 25/01/2011 03:01:14 AM
(Presumably, they're waiting for a new Anschluss to allow them to join Großdeutschland).

And of course I'm forgetting the great Canadian language of...what exactly?

We could take that further and say that all of Latin America can just be pushed into one country because they speak the same language (well, all the Spanish-speaking countries get pushed into one with Brazil separate and a couple of those weird countries next to Venezuela).

Oh, and this is a great way to prove that Palestinians aren't an ethnic group - the Arabic they speak is identical to the Arabic spoken in Lebanon and Syria.

In short, after this discursus into absurdity I think it's clear that a nation and a people can be separate and distinct when they have their own story, regardless of whether that story is told in a language that other countries speak or their own unique language.

Political correctness is the pettiest form of casuistry.

ἡ δὲ κἀκ τριῶν τρυπημάτων ἐργαζομένη ἐνεκάλει τῇ φύσει, δυσφορουμένη, ὅτι δὴ μὴ καὶ τοὺς τιτθοὺς αὐτῇ εὐρύτερον ἢ νῦν εἰσι τρυπώη, ὅπως καὶ ἄλλην ἐνταῦθα μίξιν ἐπιτεχνᾶσθαι δυνατὴ εἴη. – Procopius

Ummaka qinnassa nīk!

*MySmiley*
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So the Irish government has basically imploded. - 23/01/2011 04:47:10 PM 1531 Views
I am now confused - 23/01/2011 05:34:31 PM 898 Views
You won't be the only person - 23/01/2011 06:21:23 PM 824 Views
You do realize Britain is pretty much the envy of the Western world at the moment? - 23/01/2011 06:27:05 PM 953 Views
Re: You do realize Britain is pretty much the envy of the Western world at the moment? - 23/01/2011 06:34:47 PM 874 Views
Those protests were only violent by British standards. - 23/01/2011 11:54:15 PM 862 Views
Really? - 24/01/2011 12:03:38 AM 753 Views
But... - 24/01/2011 07:28:17 PM 831 Views
Re: But... - 24/01/2011 07:30:39 PM 1085 Views
What protests? - 24/01/2011 07:26:49 PM 895 Views
Re: What protests? - 24/01/2011 07:28:40 PM 770 Views
Re: What protests? - 25/01/2011 09:23:17 AM 896 Views
There's a new objection - 25/01/2011 11:38:25 AM 833 Views
I didn't object... - 25/01/2011 11:47:11 AM 722 Views
Re: I didn't object... - 25/01/2011 11:49:36 AM 678 Views
If you look at the bottom of that list... - 25/01/2011 11:58:24 AM 759 Views
Should I start chiming in on Norwegian politics now that I'm here...? - 24/01/2011 12:42:03 AM 722 Views
Why not? - 24/01/2011 08:49:07 AM 861 Views
'Cos I doubt you'll like what I have to say, for one thing. - 26/01/2011 01:55:13 AM 859 Views
Re: 'Cos I doubt you'll like what I have to say, for one thing. - 26/01/2011 08:42:04 AM 916 Views
I misconstrued your sarcasm, sorry. - 26/01/2011 10:23:40 AM 1059 Views
That's been a while coming, hasn't it? Cowen seems to be losing it. - 23/01/2011 05:48:30 PM 840 Views
Certainly. he's been on dodgy ground for a couple months. - 23/01/2011 06:27:27 PM 905 Views
Re: Certainly. he's been on dodgy ground for a couple months. - 23/01/2011 06:33:26 PM 856 Views
Re: Certainly. he's been on dodgy ground for a couple months. - 23/01/2011 07:19:03 PM 949 Views
Re: Certainly. he's been on dodgy ground for a couple months. - 23/01/2011 07:57:05 PM 810 Views
Re: Certainly. he's been on dodgy ground for a couple months. - 23/01/2011 09:29:03 PM 908 Views
Re: Certainly. he's been on dodgy ground for a couple months. - 23/01/2011 09:46:20 PM 867 Views
I think Adams is an Irish citizen, and not a British one. - 23/01/2011 11:45:34 PM 825 Views
Re: I think Adams is an Irish citizen, and not a British one. - 23/01/2011 11:53:12 PM 831 Views
The part that I find strange is... - 23/01/2011 11:58:27 PM 782 Views
Re: Certainly. he's been on dodgy ground for a couple months. - 23/01/2011 11:45:39 PM 710 Views
I found out something else today which makes it even better. - 24/01/2011 10:37:45 PM 981 Views
I was reading your post and going "what about the Chiltern Hundreds"? - 24/01/2011 10:44:32 PM 831 Views
Today's news: it got better again! - 26/01/2011 07:51:51 PM 868 Views
Oh, alternatively we could elevate him to the House of Lords. - 26/01/2011 11:08:44 PM 843 Views
Awesome idea. Something like "Baron Adams of Londonderry", I'm thinking. *NM* - 27/01/2011 07:54:26 PM 416 Views
We made his arch-rival a Lord, after all, so it would only be fair. - 28/01/2011 08:26:15 AM 779 Views
"This is the voice of a life peer" - 28/01/2011 02:18:04 PM 910 Views
Here you go - 25/01/2011 12:55:33 PM 922 Views
That's the site I found too. - 25/01/2011 01:25:56 PM 782 Views
Right. - 25/01/2011 01:42:49 PM 986 Views
well, the only interesting thing in swedish politics is a wikileaks document and the reactions... - 23/01/2011 06:21:00 PM 899 Views
That's interesting - 23/01/2011 06:32:05 PM 876 Views
What is inappropriate about trying to keep out barbaric unskilled people? - 23/01/2011 10:59:53 PM 854 Views
... the fact that they are asylum seekers, and their skill certainly shouldn't matter in that case. - 24/01/2011 07:08:14 PM 735 Views
Schweden schafft sich ab, eh? - 24/01/2011 07:31:33 PM 996 Views
Not to mention... - 26/01/2011 07:55:26 PM 717 Views
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Hopefully they'll stop using Irish officially as a way to cut down on unnecessary costs. - 23/01/2011 10:57:08 PM 776 Views
I'd support that - 23/01/2011 11:26:20 PM 849 Views
Ironically, if you de-officialised Irish you could get EU money to help preserve it. - 23/01/2011 11:48:14 PM 759 Views
I never realised that - 23/01/2011 11:54:43 PM 787 Views
But why, why? - 24/01/2011 08:35:43 PM 745 Views
Presumably because they agree with J.R.R. Tolkien and Tómas Sæmundsson about language's importance. - 24/01/2011 10:16:05 PM 891 Views
So Australians and New Zealanders are really English then? Austrians are just Germans? - 25/01/2011 03:01:14 AM 852 Views
I never said I agreed . - 25/01/2011 08:19:11 AM 822 Views
I would suggest that a distinct dialect does the job just as well - 25/01/2011 02:23:59 PM 836 Views
That's a very good point. - 26/01/2011 05:06:32 AM 812 Views
Indeed. - 26/01/2011 06:06:00 PM 887 Views
What the hell happened to the Celtic Tiger Country? *NM* - 24/01/2011 05:47:12 AM 466 Views
Thrown away on bling and tat, unfortunately. - 24/01/2011 01:01:27 PM 710 Views

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