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Language or Environment? They're Both Endangered!

Seeded on Fri Feb 8, 2008 5:39 AM EST
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Are Welsh speakers interested in climate change? Not as much as they should be, according to Dafydd Watkin, who works as a freelance translator.

"I tend to think we spend too much time using the Welsh language to talk only about speaking Welsh," said Mr Hywel Davies, the editor of Y Papur Gwyrdd ('The Green Paper'). "We need to use the language to discuss one of the world's main talking points at the moment, which is the planet's future"...

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Perhaps one could argue that a sustainable future involves both things!

    Reply#1 - Fri Feb 8, 2008 5:40 AM EST
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