Good that people want to keep our native language alive but I am not optimistic. Patois was my grandparents first language - these days my kids don't even have much of a Guernsey accent. Patois was dying out before the war and made a resurgence during the occupation (because the Germans couldn't understand it). Whe the evacuees (like my parents) returned to the island after 5 years they had lost their native language and many considered patois to be provincial and "a bit common". Since then it has been in steady decline and is now so rarely heard that I cannot see it being of any practical use to anyone (unlike Welsh, for example, where enough people actively used the language to allow it to be revitalised). I applaud the people dedicated to keeping the language alive but I cannot see it ever becoming commonly used again and I suspect it will disappear altogether in the next generation. It will be a very sad day when it does.
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