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Old 10-03-2014, 13:49   #1409
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Re: Coming soon to Virgin TV 2014
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Originally Posted by Anypermitedroute View Post
wow when did we stop caring about our culture here,

this part of our history and like the welsh language why shouldnt we try and preserve some the oldest langauages in existence. To state that English is the business Language is plain ignorant and this country recognising other languages such as gaelic as OFFICIAL languages. Just to recap Whilst English is a dominant langauage there is plenty of business dozen in Other langauages and in this country ranging from Cantonese to German. The fact these countries folk have learnt english shows either a) deep lover affair with english b) failure of our own to learn a new language. If anything we shoudl be showing interest in these cultures including our own traditions and beliefs because soon they will dissappear. £4 million is a very small price to pay. I think its awful that we are trying to justify losing this so that we can keep free to air football thats like selling children to pay for a PS3 (okay not that extreme). Thankfully BBC are not looking to lose ALBA. Prsonally I would keep BBC3 as well and not giev anymore cash to BBC1 to throw away on such itesm as the Voice but that is my own personal opinion.

Likewise i respect all views here but I am slightly disappointed with the way this discussion was going

p.s. I am neither Welsh nor Scottish, neither can i speak the languages, proud to british, call Austria my second home and love all people from all societies, nationalities, culture and creed
But English is the main language of business, it is a fact, not an opinion.

I do understand the issue about culture, but you know what, I don't want to pay for that out of my TV licence. Given that just about everyone can speak English in the communities BBC Alba serves, I really don't see the point in having a separate language BBC channel in this case. If people want it, they can pay for it. BBC Alba didn't even exist until recently, so it is not that big a deal, and the fact that they didn't have a TV channel over all those years before has not killed the language.

This is not as outrageous as you imply. Cornwall also has its own native tongue, but it doesn't have its own BBC channel. Where do you draw the line?

Frankly, if the world spoke the same language there would be less potential for conflict because we'd all be able to understand each other better, so I'm not really into preserving languages that are hardly used. However, if people want to preserve it, they can continue to speak it, nobody's stopping them.

My point is that you can't have a separate channel for every small minority language, particularly when you think of the small numbers speaking it - that doesn't make economic sense particularly in these difficult economic times.
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