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From: chmorris@watdragon.UUCP (Corinne Morris)
Newsgroups: net.nlang.celts
Subject: Re: the Breton language
Message-ID: <695@watdragon.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 27-Mar-86 09:15:37 EST
Article-I.D.: watdrago.695
Posted: Thu Mar 27 09:15:37 1986
Date-Received: Fri, 28-Mar-86 05:37:29 EST
References: <609@watdragon.UUCP> <566@cisden.UUCP>
Reply-To: chmorris@watdragon.UUCP (Corinne Morris)
Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario
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Summary: 

In article <566@cisden.UUCP> john@cisden.UUCP (John Woolley) writes:
>The article doesn't tell us what the "non-violent campaign" consisted of or
>what the men were charged with.  Yet we're asked to write letters opposing
>the government's action?
The article, as I quoted, states that the men had "systematically daubed"
road signs with Frenchified place-names.  The term "daubed" means to obscure
with a tarry substance in this case (see the Winter edition of 'Carn').  This
is what they were convicted of, and what the campaign consisted of.  The
signs involved were highway signs indicating how to find various places and
thus the daubing does not constitute the serious danger to the public which
daubing other road signs would.