Should have been just there, rather than gatekept into a certain shape by ideology.
Multiple hyper-local dialects/accents lost to standardisation, too, never to be retrieved.
Multiple hyper-local dialects/accents lost to standardisation, too, never to be retrieved.
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Melissa
With all the talk about reviving the Irish language I haven't heard anyone talk about the fact that we didn't just lose our language because of the Brits, but also because of the Irish government beating it into children in schools, creating an understandable aversion to it in the older generations
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