tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31655026.post7610540083651697457..comments2024-03-29T11:00:59.816+00:00Comments on nourishing obscurity: Always remember that if it hadn't been for the English, you'd all be SpanishJames Highamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14525082702330365464noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31655026.post-45787611960859823712009-12-08T08:37:14.921+00:002009-12-08T08:37:14.921+00:00As an Irish-Australian, nothing would have been be...As an Irish-Australian, nothing would have been better than for Rex Philipus' Armada, or later even on, Buonaparte's fleet, to have taken Britannia back into the Roman fold, completing the work left unfinished by Caesar & Claudius. The northern barbarians, really nice people & good house-makers when baptised & civilised, needed to be reintegrated into Europe before the Industrial Revolution. My country, Éire of the four greens fields, not to mention Cymru & Alba, have been left ravished & impoverished ... and worst of all we must endure this peasantish schlaumerich zunge! Imagine the beauty of Janine Austen in French, Robert Graves in Catalan, TS Eliot in Parisian or Jacques Père in Norman! Herr Gott is not a nice mensch - I prefer mon Dieu!<br /><br />Tadhg Ó Raghallaigh (Ted Reilly) AustraliaTadhg Ó Raghallaighnoreply@blogger.com