And whilst i do not speak Manx (being a come over and no incentive to learn) there has been a increase in the interest, and consequent teaching, of Manx in the local schools, one primary school teaches purely in Manx.
The BBC is translating a children's TV programme into Manx http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe- ... n-21284716. From a local's point of view this can only be a good thing.
The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.
George Bernard Shaw
This happened with Gaelic in Scotland years ago. We have some Gaelic TV programmes available on the BBC, and BBC Alba is all Gaelic. I don't think the public really bought into it in any big way, There may have been an initially large uptake of Gaelic lessons but I'm not sure it lasted very long. Inverness has it's road signs in English and Gaelic but it's pretty much just the Islanders that speak it.
I have a friend here who taught herself Manx for no apparent reason other than interest. She went for a visit there a year or two ago and was very well met by the locals. Apparently could never get a round in.
The problem with fantasies is you can't really insist that everyone else believes in yours, the other problem with fantasies is that most believers of fantasies eventually get around to doing exactly that.
