Posted by Prue Eckett on October 08, 2000 at 03:11:51 from 203-96-105-23.dialup.xtra.co.nz:
In Reply to: More Ransome "Oddities" posted by Adam Quinan on October 07, 2000 at 13:28:30:
Re the 'foreign language' Gaelic, any language different to your own tends to be seen as foreign. And the 'natives' are seen as foreign to the 'explorers'.
Makes perfect sense to me!