On Thursday 17 August 2006 22:54, Charles Schulz wrote: > Hello, > > Ian Lynch a écrit : [snip] > > I would expect the NL lead to be a bit more sensitive in terms of race > > relations, I'm English, not Welsh and certainly not Scottish. You want > > to look at some of the politics involved in the Scottish and Welsh > > National Assemblies. OOo could learn from it. God forbid I should say > > anything similar about the French :-p > > Well, first of all, it's interesting to refer to the Welsh, the Scottish > and the English as being of different *races*.
They are, actually. The Welsh are Celts, the Scots are composed of Celts and Picts - three different :races" in two different countries.... (then there are the Manx and Irish, who are Celts, not to mention the Bretons who are also Celts...). The English, OTOH are Germanic (Angle, Saxon, Dane/Viking), with a dash of Norman (who were Dane/Viking originally) and Brythonic (from whence the name "Britain" derives. > Very interesting indeed. > Second, the NLC is about representing every language except english, so > I'm a bit covered up here, and third, I was just joking. I know Brits > can bash the French ...and the Scots/Welsh also bash the English (so do us Australians, come to that - we refer to them as "Poms"). > all the way and I'm sure you got plenty of that in > store yourself... :-) > > Best, > Charles. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Alex Fisher Co-Lead, CD-ROM Project OpenOffice.org Marketing Community Contact Australia/New Zealand http://distribution.openoffice.org/cdrom/
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