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Logophiliac
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11 January 2010 at 11:15pm | IP Logged

I work in an office in Dublin that drafts laws. (I am a monoglot English-speaking Australian.) Under Irish law, all
Irish Acts of Parliament have to be published in both English and Irish. In Ireland, all school children have to take
Irish right through their school career, and until recently you could not practice law in Ireland without a certificate
of proficiency in Irish. However, in an office full of Irish-trained lawyers there is no-one with good enough Irish to
do legal drafting in Irish--all our output gets translated. I understand that the requirement for a certificate of
proficiency in legal Irish has now been replaced by compulsory attendance at a series of lectures with no test. Make
of all that what you wish.

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