Comments by "mogznwaz" (@mogznwaz) on "Britain's Celtic languages explained" video.

  1.  @AnonymousFreakYT  Made up story, it’s repeated everywhere where there’s a disgruntled group who lost
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  2.  @hogcranker123  Brits emigrated to continents that were almost entirely empty. Or did you think that a few hundred thousand abos who hadn’t yet invented the wheel should have complete ownership of whole continents in perpetuity? What about the tribes THEY wiped out? They’re lucky they got the Brits and not the Spanish or the Ottomans or the Mongols or the Maori. There would be none of them left to whine about it.
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  3.  @PippetWhippet  LOL wannabe victims
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  4. If Britain had remained divided and riven with intertribal warfare and no common language - we’d all have been conquered long ago. I like our country, its history is the path that has brought us to where we are. Without it there is no Magna Carta, no English language, no Shakespeare, no Darwin, no Royal Navy to fight off the French and the Spanish or end the transatlantic slave trade, no concept of the Pax Britannica, the rule of law, no American Constitution and so on. Those things alone put us head and shoulders above all other comparable civilisations.
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  5.  @murp0121  the British isles is also an accepted and recognised geographical term
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  6.  @brianmsahin  On that we can agree - British and Irish people need to show solidarity in the wake of the relentless Islamisation of our islands
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  7.  @johnmc3862  the British isles is a geographical not a political term.
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  8.  @Cazzy09  Why bother? What’s the point? When would you realistically use it except to virtue signal? Language is first and foremost a communication tool. Languages evolve to fill the available space so that people who come into contact can understand each other. What you’re basically doing is regressing to a tribal state. But I BET you’re also one of those people who both decried British colonialism and supports open borders mass immigration because ‘we’re all one human race’. It’s a cognitive dissonance
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  9.  @NoahSpurrier  so they emigrated and didn’t assimilate - shame on them that’s very rude
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  10.  @NoahSpurrier  I don’t care what the Spanish do - I’m only concerned with what Brits do
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  11.  @hogcranker123  Why?
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  12.  @randalmayeux8880  So what? They kept a language alive that’s of zero use to them except as keeping them tied to a country they hadn’t been part of for hundreds of years and stopping them feeling fully AMERICAN. Personally I think that’s pathetic
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  13.  @randalmayeux8880  so trying to keep long dead linguistics alive for no real purpose .
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  14.  @fitzstv8506 Get over yourselves ffs 🙄
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  15.  @BillMcHale Justify nothing - DO. That’s what conquering nations do and have done for millennia. The Irish and Scottish kings tried to do it themselves and failed. There are no moral high grounds to take - you either conquered or were conquered. Bleating about it now is completely pointless and victim-mongering. You LOST. And if we’re not all careful we’ll ALL lose our countries to the Islamic hordes, which I guarantee will be far less pleasant than British rule.
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  16.  @agnidas5816 Britain hasn’t practiced slavery in Britain for 1000 years. No other empire can make such a boast. The transatlantic slave trade was run by private enterprise it was just tolerated by the crown because it wasn’t here. Once the Crown stepped in a lot of things were done differently including abolishing the slave trade across the empire. Again - unique in history.
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  17.  @alicemilne1444 Northern Ireland is part of the UK so technically we do own it - it’s British territory and its citizens are British
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  18.  @peteymax The people of NI wanted to remain part of Britain. It wasn’t forced on them - whereas Irish republicans have continued to try and force them to accept Irish rule ever since with bombs and murders and violence. The Irish Republicans do not accept the choice of the northern Irish people.
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  19.  @gavintuesday4959 Do you expect societies hundreds of years ago to have conducted themselves in a manner to your liking? You people are hilarious
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  20.  @dodiad And there’s the lesson - if you want to keep what’s yours you have to be prepared to fight for it and defend it.
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  21.  @servantofaeie1569 and what’s the point of resurrecting a dead language that hardly anyone speaks? Talk about being stuck in a past that’s long gone
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  22.  @chingizzhylkybayev8575 they assimilated…
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  23.  @MaxHohenstaufen it’s called ‘democracy’
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  24.  @MaxHohenstaufen There has never been any indication the British wouldn’t let Northern Ireland leave the Union if they democratically chose to do so. What would be the point? We only kept it on to protect the interests of large numbers of Protestant loyalists who wanted to stay in Britain and get protection from the Irish Catholic republicans who kept trying to erase them
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  25.  @columbannon9134 The British Isles is a geographical term - the Irish need to get over themselves
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  26.  @alexrafe2590 so you’re basically a nomadic sponger with no roots
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  27.  @MaxHohenstaufen Don’t let Irish nationalists pollute your mind. They can be very petty and provincial and love being victims of English ‘oppression’ just like the Scots and the Welsh. It’s pathetic really.
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  28.  @fitzstv8506  These tales of Irish woe and victimhood are getting old. I think you actually like being victims.
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  29.  @fitzstv8506 I’m British and feel no guilt or responsibility whatsoever
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  30.  @peteymax Who cares? British isles is perfectly fine and we all know it means Great Britain and Ireland and their little islands. Get over yourselves ffs the victimhood is getting boring
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  31.  @davidmundowyahoo7839 The UK is one state. NI is not ‘occupied’ the people of NI chose to remain loyal to Britain - I don’t understand what you find so difficult about this concept. Basically the Republicans are trying to force NI to be part of the ROI against their will yet they moan about British colonialism?!
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  32.  @Forbsey99 And what benefit would it be to you today to only speak Irish? English benefits you far more and you know it. Nothing stopping you speaking Gaelic. There were lots and lots of little languages dotted about the British isles that are also long dead. SO WHAT? You speak English which means you can speak and be understood by a huge number of people. As the Irish like to think of themselves as internationalist and love the EU surely a common language is far more useful?
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  33.  @fitzstv8506 Nope it just does what it says on the tin. Reading more into it is far more sinister as it reveals an agenda beyond just a simple description of a geographical collection of islands of which Great Britain is the largest
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  34.  @MaxHohenstaufen There are more Scots in England than there are in Scotland - and very welcome they are too, can’t say the same the other way around though because ScotNats are so obsessed with being Scottish and parroting a (mostly made up) narrative of being victims of oppression that they have become quite aggressively anti English - including to English tourists who have never done anything to them and were willing to spend their money there.
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  35.  @foxgirl1822 Haha well said! 👏
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  36.  @beaglaoich4418 The only people attempting to destroy Irish culture are YOUR OWN GOVERNMENT. English people LOVE to go to Ireland and join in with the craic and drink Guinness and do Irish dancing and wotnot. We’re far more alike than you want to admit.
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  37.  @fitzstv8506 It’s a hobby language nothing more. Nowt wrong with that but imagine Ireland only speaking Gaelic - how far do you think that would get them in a world where being a native English speaker is a huge benefit?
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  38.  @Epidian  We kept NI to protect Protestant unionists from violent Catholic republicans. They’ve tried to force them to join the Republic ever since. The GFA was the result of all the mothers and wives being sick to death of all the killing and coming together to demand action - that’s what triggered the talks in the first place. Everyone had had enough of it.
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  39.  @adrianperry8352 Sometimes languages just die as people and cultures evolve and use a common language. It’s GOOD we can all communicate so easily. English seems to be uniquely good at exporting itself - it’s an amazing language
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  40.  @bonniegale6516 And how does this help them apart from resurrecting long dead grievances and looking to the past? They get to speak a language between themselves that foreigners can’t understand? Whoopededoo. Try getting a job though - hope there’s lots of employment in Ireland for people who only speak Gaelic. Except we know that won’t happen - English will always be the dominant language for good reason
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  41.  @peteymax  Why would the archipelago be named after its smaller island? Be logical please.
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  42.  @peteymax  Yes, NI was crater to *protect the Protestant unionists*. They wanted to remain part of Britain not be part of the Republic of Ireland. That is a democratically sounder position than Irish catholics trying to force it to be Irish Catholic. How long before Protestants would have been erased in Ireland if the republicans had their way?
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  43.  @peteymax  They are not ‘trapped’ - they are free to live in NI or in the Republic as they choose. No one is forcing them
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  44.  @fitzstv8506  So you’re happy to practice ethnic cleansing of a minority then? Shameful
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  45.  @fitzstv8506  Err that was the point I was making. Irish are native speakers of English because it’s a BENEFIT. Nothing stops them speaking Gaelic and never did (the ‘erasure’ of it was evidently unsuccessful). There’s no benefiting the Irish in not speaking English at all, there is benefit by being native English speakers instead of like the Germans who are German but learn English as a 2nd language so are not native English speakers
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  46.  @roywilson1703  Ha ha love this
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  47.  @fitzstv8506  …and it will be shortened to British Isles - who the hell is going to spout that mouthful? What’s the point? Your Irish egotism is funny
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  48.  @fitzstv8506  It IS a minor group. It’s SMALLER. How is it an insult to tell the truth? Your victim complex is hilarious.
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  49.  @fitzstv8506  Why is it the South China Sea instead of the North Philippines sea? Because China is BIGGER
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  50.  @fitzstv8506  You ARE politically and physically connected to Britain! Historically connected, physically connected (NI is part of the UK), Irish and British DNA are intermingled, there are probably as many people Irish descent living in Britain as in Ireland. We have a common language, travel area, most of your laws and a good amount of your culture are British influenced or inherited. To claim otherwise is woefully ignorant
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  51.  @davidmundowyahoo7839  Then act like it
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  52.  @zivkovicable  I personally didn’t do anything, but the culture my ancestors played a part in creating, did. The bit you don’t seem to get is that I DO NOT CARE that Britain participated in what was normal and legal at the time. Do Italians self flagellate about Roman slavery? Are they demanding the demolition of the Colusseum where slaves were routinely murdered for entertainment? No. Why should they? That was normal at the time. I’m glad that ONE empire took the moral leap to end the practice and now we don’t think it’s ok and we’re not slaves. You would not be pontificating about it now if the British had not done what it did, you’d probably be a slave.
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  53.  @EIREriddick13  if you’re from EIRE I’d suggest you turn your attention to your own country if I were you. Islam and the machinations of the globalist authoritarian Left are doing their best to divide and destroy us, enabled by our cowardly globalist elites. But the British people are resilient - when we run out of tolerance, beware.
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  54.  @whatthemeep  Your ancestors ASSIMILATED and became AMERICAN. Why would you fetishise a culture and language you are no longer a part of? Weird.
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  55.  @MenelionFR  We’ve lost thousands of languages in the course of human history and no one gives a shyte about them, what’s so special about Breton? How useful is it beyond virtue signaling about your ‘roots’?
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  56.  @derekmills5394  Yep just more grievance mongering and virtue signalling- it’s for tourists and money grubbing nothing more. Maori today claim they’re so oppressed but I guarantee if they lived on the ACTUAL Maori culture pre British colonialism they would NOT want to go back there. This romantic fetishising is weird
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  57.  @BGM16  Thousands of languages are lost - no one cares about them. Languages are a communication tool, that’s what they’re for. They evolve. Resurrecting old languages is basically a desire to virtue signal your parochialism and separatism because it has no other use but virtue signalling. It makes me laugh that the same kinds of people who fetishise old niche languages also tend to consider themselves fans of mass immigration and open borders. The two things don’t co-exist.
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  58.  @mariannehancock8282  What’s the point? Globalisation has globalised language and culture - we are all able to converse on social media in English because it has become a common language. Is that a good or bad thing in your eyes? But if your virtue signalling also runs into being pro mass immigration from the 3rd world you will end up not only losing Welsh language but English too. And all the rights and freedoms that English culture has imparted. At worst you get Sharia instead.
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  59.  @ReiKakariki  Why the hell should people protest to resurrect dead or dying niche languages? What’s the point? Language is meant to be a communication tool not a separation tool. If you want to speak Welsh speak it, no one is forcing you not to. But demanding it become the lingua Franca of Wales at taxpayer expense is something else. The ancient peoples of Britannia are gone. They evolved over time, they fought, they allied, they intermarried, they made friends, they borrowed bits of each others language and culture until we end up with a dominant language and culture that enables a much larger group to be understood and feel kinship. That’s how it works. France wasn’t always France. Germany wasn’t always Germany. Spain wasn’t always Spain. They didn’t all become that way singing kumbayah Why would you expect all the constituent parts of Britain to revert back to separate out the kingdoms with their own separate little languages? It’s stupid and regressive. I now think it was a huge mistake by the British empire not to eradicate all natives and implant British people instead who would have no loyalty to some old ethnicity. That’s what the Mongols and Huns did. That’s what Muslims and Hindus do now - they frown upon marriage outside the religion or clan. If they’d just erased it all there would be no whining about it now. But no Britain was the inheritor of the Magna Carta and its empire was largely self governing and there was no real attempt to erase local cultures. In India learning English on top of the local dialect unified the mass of warring mini kingdoms - without it India would not be able to be a single country. Maybe it would have been better if it had been left as it was - no doubt now it would just be a collection of Islamic 3rd world shyteholes constantly at war. A lot of the troubles in Ireland were actually due to local Irish lords who picked a side - often based on material gain or religious loyalties. It wasn’t always ‘the British’ doing anything in particular. The British didn’t cause the potato blight or famine that afflicted Ireland more than anywhere else in Europe because Irish lords had gotten so rich on potatoes they didn’t diversify enough. England had famine too ya know - potato blight wasn’t just in Ireland and lots of English also starved as a result. But the Irish have turned it into a nationalist myth feeding their victim narrative.
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  60.  @jenm1  Language is a communication tool. If it’s no longer useful it dies out. Thousands and thousands have gone this way. We only have so many local languages because historically people didn’t travel much and they didn’t marry outside their clan. The people who fetishise these local cultures are, laughably, often the same people who love mass immigration and open borders - and they just don’t understand why the 2 things are in opposition. Languages and cultures evolve but it’s worth picking your battles wisely . Personally I’d happily sacrifice Welsh Irish Cornish etc if it meant English survived the onslaught of Islamic Arabic or communist Chinese . Or are you so self loathing you’d prefer that?
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  61.  @MrFearDubh  which shows a miscegenation of the cultures - English is a remarkably adaptable language in its absorption of other languages - as is English culture
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  62.  @brianmsahin  Not living in Ireland for more than 20 years. Your new home must be really pleased with how you haven’t assimilated.
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  63.  @brianmsahin  So what? As a Brit I have no problem describing myself as living in Europe because it’s fact. I don’t get uppity about it. The term Europe has only become political because of the creation of the political EU. The Irish are only getting weird about the term British Isles because of their political issues. They need to get over themselves
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  64.  @murp0121  Seriously you need to get over yourselves
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  65.  @brianmsahin  You haven’t assimilated if ‘Irish’ is still your primary identity. Look up what assimilation means.
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  66.  @saracomerford1753  Yes English and Irish language , culture, people have miscegenated over hundreds of years. Why is this surprising?
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  67.  @Niinsa62  Whoopededoo
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  68.  @SiusaidhMac  so Scots emigrated and didn’t assimilate even after hundreds of years, clinging on to their old identity. Why are you so proud of this?
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