Uploaded February 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago
Paul McCallum talks to James MacLetchie. In Part 2B Paul talks a bit about his own writing, and how it's inspired by the local environment. Moving on to discuss local poets from earlier times he notes the exemplary command they had over the language and how today's Gaelic has changed. He regrets the loss of vocabulary and idiom and cautions against a felt need to change the language to "keep up" with today's world. If the language is indeed "dying" we should be careful not to kill it off with words and idioms that don't belong to it.
Full summary and links here: guthan.wordpress.com/2025/02/28/paul-mccallum-in-conversation
Paul McCallum talks to James MacLetchie. In Part 2B Paul talks a bit about his own writing, and how it's inspired by the local environment. Moving on to discuss local poets from earlier times he notes the exemplary command they had over the language and how today's Gaelic has changed. He regrets the loss of vocabulary and idiom and cautions against a felt need to change the language to "keep up" with today's world. If the language is indeed "dying" we should be careful not to kill it off with words and idioms that don't belong to it.
Full summary and links here: guthan.wordpress.com/2025/02/28/paul-mccallum-in-conversation
