Alasdair MacCaluim

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Cornish gains equal language status with Welsh Stephen Price Kernewek, the Cornish language, will be recognised alongside Welsh, Irish Gaelic and Scots Gaelic after the UK Government recommended it for Part III status – the highest level of protec...

Kernewek, the Cornish language, will be recognised alongside Welsh, Irish Gaelic and Scots Gaelic after the UK Government recommended it for Part III status - the highest level of protection under European treaty

Cèic san eaglais - dè an ath rud? Ceòl? Dè chanadh Knox! :)

Gu dearbha! Fhuair mi e airson preasant airson mo cho-latha-breith an-uiridh bho mo cho-obraichean oir tha fios aca cho measail 's a tha mi an dà chuid air meatailt is air bruic! \m/

Campaign group criticise the 'colonial aspect' of the Ordnance Survey Stephen Price Campaigners from Eryri have launched a new campaign against the ‘colonial aspect’ of the Ordnance Survey – targeting the use of names such as The Mushroom Garden and ‘The Nameless Cwm’. ...

Campaigners from Eryri have launched a new campaign against the 'colonial aspect' of the Ordnance Survey - targeting the use of names such as 'The Mushroom Garden' and 'The Nameless Cwm'

Is math sin oir tha mi a' faireachdainn cho seann ris a' cheò sna làithean seo!

This is a *great idea* - unless you actually have to read the book that has been machine translated!

A-steach dhan mhuir leis a seo.

And why not just cut out the authors too and make the books written by AI too?

Just no. Thalla tech bros.

Amazon here, targeting the market consisting of people who for some reason buy books but don't actually like books, or writers, or reading.

(Authors, please have nothing to do with this slop-dispenser, which will mangle your prose and put translators — your allies — out of work.)

Never! Abair gaisgeach a th' ann an Dr Eileabhan!

I'm doing my tax return today and asking myself the same type of questions!

Ag imirt:
The Irish for kneel is níl.
The Irish for down is domhan.
The Irish for know is nó.
The Irish for boss is bás.

Sgoinneil! Bu toil leam seo fhaicinn ann an Alba cuideachd. Tha mi anns an Dùn Bhreac far a bheil craobhan gu leòr ann agus bu toil leam barrachd dheth seo fhaicinn ann an Glaschu agus air feadh na dùthcha.

YouTube video by TheThinkingAtheist Wrapped in the Flag: The Perversion of Patriotism in MAGA America

My latest speech, given at @freethoughtday.bsky.social in Sacramento.

youtu.be/Yb0Av2L7xbQ?...

IBBY and UNESCO Launch Global Call for Books in Indigenous and Endangered Languages IBBY (International Board on Books for Young People) and UNESCO have launched a global call for books to be included in their Collection of Remarkable Books for Young Readers in Indigenous and Endange...

IBBY (International Board on Books for Young People) and @unesco.org Launch Global Call for Books in Indigenous and Endangered Languages
languagemagazine.com/2025/10/02/i...
via @langmag.bsky.social
#literature #indigenous #languages #langsky

Rinn thu gu math! Seo baidse dhut!

Sign the Petition Home Office: before automating translation, please listen to the experts

Iomairt chudromach a thaobh eadar-theangachadh: www.change.org/p/home-offic...

"Please fill out the feedback form about our feedback form"

Duilich duilich seo a chluinntinn. Sàr chù le teaghlach gaolach. x

Cambrian Coast winter rail services restored The winter evening train services along the Cambrian Coast Line have been saved following months of campaigning by local residents, community groups, and politicians. Transport for Wales (TfW) has con...

The winter evening train services along the Cambrian Coast Line have been saved following months of campaigning by local residents, community groups, and politicians

[ posted this earlier, but removed and typos corrected! i think this is good now ]

NEW STATIONS! with Blyth Bebside opening last weekend, and the new Beaulieu Park opening tomorrow there will be a total of 2,589 stations on the network!

When you make a booking online, there is an option asking if you want to be in the quiet carriage, but there isn't one asking if you don't want to be in the quiet carriage. Strange!

Deagh artagal sa Ghuardian mu chòmhdhail eadar-nàiseanta air trèana.

The Place Names of Edinburgh - ri fhaighinn a-nis sa bhùth air loidhne aig Ainmean Àite na h-Alba.
buff.ly/dUOfWYw

The Place Names of Edinburgh - now available in the online shop at Ainmean Àite na h-Alba.
buff.ly/kcCXUG9

One one issue among many, but when a point in a White Paper opens with "We will seek to better understand concerns..." it does not bode well.

"'S e an t-àm a b' fheàrr a bh' ann, 's e an t-àm a bu mhios a bh' ann!"

Tha fios agam, ach cha chan mi guth! I know but I'm not saying anything!

I'm just glad that it wasn't a translator with who did Gaelic translation for you sometimes in that role (i.e my good self!) that drove you to resign!

Tha thu glic!

@akerbeltz.bsky.social *Feumaidh* sinn Gàidhlig air tactical frivolity! Beachd sam bith agad dè a bhiodh air?

Ainmich is nàraich!