Re: New "Doctor Who" comes to the U.S.

Carved in mystic runes upon the very living rock, the last words of Amy
Guskin of rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated make plain:

>>>On Tue, 24 Jan 2006 13:33:44 -0500, Methuselah Jones wrote
> (in article <Xns975589E5C8BF5methuselahaltgeekorg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>):
>
>> Carved in mystic runes upon the very living rock, the last words of
>> Amy Guskin of rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated make plain:
>>
>>>>> On Tue, 24 Jan 2006 00:38:28 -0500, John W. Kennedy wrote
>>> (in article <3hgBf.168$7D5.166@xxxxxxxx>):
>>>
>>>> Amy Guskin wrote:
>>>>>>> On Mon, 23 Jan 2006 19:07:11 -0500, John W. Kennedy wrote
>>>>> (in article <hceBf.122$7D5.67@xxxxxxxx>):
>>>>>
>>>>>> Amy Guskin wrote:
>>>>>>> I have a sweatshirt that says "Speakers of dead languages unite"
>>>>>>> in Gaelic.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> Which one, "Gay-lick" or "Gallick", or Manx? (Manx Gaelic, of
>>>>>> course, is dead.) <<
>>>>>
>>>>> Gaelic ("gay-lick"). Irish Gaelic, actually, which generally goes
>>>>> by just "Gaelic" (while Scots is generally referred to as "Scots
>>>>> Gaelic," and is pronounced "gall-ick"). As for Manx, didn't the
>>>>> last native Manx speaker only recently die?
>>>>
>>>> 1974.
>>>>
>>>> Mind you, I hear that Irish and Scots Gaelic are both on the
>>>> decline. Of all the yet living Celtic languages, it seems that only
>>>> Welsh is in a truly healthy state.<<
>>>
>>> Irish, while not nearly as subsidized as Welsh, isn't really doing
>>> so bad, either. Twenty years ago and more, you'd hear people in
>>> Ireland saying that they took Gaelic only as long as required (all
>>> through school), and then promptly forgot it. What's been happening
>>> more recently is that there have been substantial tax breaks and
>>> housing incentives for people to move into the Gaeltacht areas
>>> (irish speaking regions). And even more recently, Gaelic-speaking
>>> clubs have been opening up in Dublin. It's actually quite
>>> fashionable among the young to be able to speak it fluently now.
>>
>> I wonder if Enya's success had anything to do with that. <<
>
> I doubt it. Clannad, her sister's band, was extremely famous in
> Europe for years before Eithne was, and they have plenty of songs with
> Gaelic lyrics. (Whoops, I mean "Enya." It's just ironic in
> connection with a thread about Gaelic for you to suggest that Enya's
> success had some impact on its renaissance, when she's de-Gaelicized
> the spelling of her own name!)

Despite what other people in other countries may think about the U.S.,
there is still a high coolness factor attached to U.S. popular culture.
When Enya became popular here, it certainly created an increased interest
in Gaelic culture here, and it wouldn't surprise me if that then spread
back across the pond. Mind you, I'm just vaguely speculating; I don't
know when the resurgence you're speaking of took place, or really if
there's any connection.

I don't blame Eithne at all for transliterating her name in order to
penetrate the U.S. market. I very much doubt she would have, using the
Gaelic spelling. I'm glad she did; I like her music a lot.

--
Methuselah
"The Democrats seem to be basically nicer people, but they have
demonstrated time and again that they have the management skills of
celery. They're the kind of people who'd stop to help you change a flat,
but would somehow manage to set your car on fire. I would be reluctant to
entrust them with a Cuisinart, let alone the economy. The Republicans, on
the other hand, would know how to fix your tire, but they wouldn't bother
to stop because they'd want to be on time for Ugly Pants Night at the
country club."
-- Dave Barry

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