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Speech given in Greenlandic

lundi 15 mai 2023 à 12:02

A member of the Danish parliament that represents Greenland gave a speech in Parliament in Greenlandic, which no one else there understood. Then she refused to tell the rest of parliament what the speech meant.

To speak to a body of people in a language almost none of them understand is disrespectful. When they ask you to repeat your point in their language, which you do speak, it indicates they do wish to pay attention to your point. To refuse them only vents contempt.

If you pretend that asking you what you said represents an attempt to gag you, that is perverse and unjust.

The other parliamentarians might respond, "While you speak to us in a language we can't understand, we may as well use the time to catch up on documents we are supposed to read."