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Originally Posted by Youenn
Firstly, to hear you, people will think it's the Breton nationalists who killed this dialect. It's absolutely wrong. This dialect is dead naturally because nobody cares about it.
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The curious thing here is that the Gallo language is not related to the Breton language. It is a Oïl language and therefore closely related to French.
So the questions are, why should they go with an independent Brittany?
..and, who do you think that would benefit if there was no trace left of an Oïl language like Gallo?
I'm not taking positions, but I don't see things clean and clear.
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Secondly, the major part (if not all of them) of people who are in Gallo associations are the leftist independentists.
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Isn't that a similar case with Breton associations?
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And finally, in administrative point of view, I don't think there are people who want a centralized Brittany with Roazhon/Rennes or Naoned/Nantes as political center. That should be more federative.
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Explain "federative", please. How is it proposed? (if it is proposed)
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Why "this Brittany" ? There is one and only Brittany.
Contrary to many countries in Europe our borders stayed stable during 11 centuries, except for some little area in the south-east.
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This or that, it is only a short form to say "this [administrative] model of/for Brittany".
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About Gallo or Britto-roman, I didn't see many people protest against the Breton language in Eastern Brittany where the Breton was spoken, except the free-mason (most often even not Breton). Will they (free-masons and others) protest because the language used in French administration is not Gallo but French ? Will they protest for Gallo schools ? No, they just protested because there are some road signs in Breton - firstly in Eastern Brittany and after in Western Brittany.
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You don't even speak Breton, do you? (and I mean more than just a few words and phrases)
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It's not at all sincere and constructive. For this reason, I think it's just an instrument of destabilization for Breton language like the “Breton nationalists during 39-45” is for Breton nationalism.
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What is this instrument of destabilisation that you are talking about?
What I would like you to explain is, since you have vowed in favour of a "British identity" but againt a "French identity", how is the British (Anglo-Saxon dominated) identity right but the French (Oïl dominated) wrong?
You see, I find much hipocrisy behind that and I would like to believe that you didn't know what you were saying all along. The impresion that I've got from Breton nationalists, through you, I must say that it is quite disappointing.