The National: Glasgow airport has been told to act after a sign for a restaurant appeared to mix up Irish and Scottish Gaelic… The slogan on the sign currently reads “An bhfuil ocras ort?” with [Murdo] MacSween explaining it should instead say “A bheil an t-acras ort?”
Yeah, don't think I can speedrun 10 units by EOM, but once I'm done the course, I'm done with #Duo and cancelling my subscription. Zero reason why this answer shouldn't be accepted. #Gaeilge
#Duo subscription is up at the end of May. I've got 10 units left in the Irish class. Wondering if I should speed run it and then not renew. Have had a lot of frustrations eg, extremely short reviews, or idiomatic English not being accepted. #gaeilge
I started out on the fediverse arooooound...I wanna say 2017/18 mebbe? My big start in social media was MySpace. Before that, I had a LiveJournal (which I miss mightily with all my heart). My very first computer was a Gateway PC, back when they shipped them to you in those awesome cow spot pattern boxes. I am trying to de-google my life.
I'm #ADHD and suffer from #dysthymia. I'm currently unmedicated. I can be damned moody at times, so there's your warning.
Religiously/spiritually speaking, I'm complicated. That will be a long post, when I get around to writing it. My general rule is: I have my thing. It's not everybody's thing, and that's cool. Not everybody's thing is my thing, and that's cool. Just don't be a wanker towards those whose thing ain't your thing. OM 🕉
I'm 57 years old and have come to the conclusion that we never truly appreciate the decades we grew up in until we hit middle age.
I'm single and childless, hence my user tag: TheLastOfHisName.
26 Mar 1638: d. Leah Mawe, wife of Bishop William Bedell of #Kilmore#otd Bedell oversaw the translation of the #Bible into #Gaeilge#Irish (ECC) Their children together included William, a son-biographer of his father.
To a Swedish person, the function of diacritics is obvious:
å is not a
ä is not a
ö is not o
So I get the importance of fadas in #irish, and the "tutors" in Irish out there, Darach O'Séaghdha springs to mind, are helpful by pointing out that
Éire is not eire
cáca is not caca
Still it's difficult to remember, and to fully understand the effect on pronunciation.
Here's another nice pair of words, learnt from yesterday's #Seafóid game:
ólann - drinking
olann - wool
28 Feb 1632: Bishop William Bedell, overseer of the translation of #Bible into #Irish#Gaeilge resigns the diocese of #Ardagh to John Richardson but retains the diocese of #Kilmore#otd (ECC/eebo)
Huh. I just finished the #Duolingo Irish #Gaeilge course (before the “Daily Refresh” unit), and …nothing! For an app that vibrates when you get a difficult question right and gives you a special milestone screen every fifty days or so, I was expecting that little owl to fly out of my phone and throw me a wild party! But nothing! It doesn’t even acknowledge that you’ve finished something. I guess they’re worried people would quit?
Anyway, I finished.
5 Feb 1626: James Ley, judge, created 1st Earl of Marlborough #otd (NPG) He helped instigate the printing of the #Irish#Gaeilge Common Prayer Book in 1608. He also issued the 'mandates' a legal device aimed at getting prominent #Catholics in #Ireland to attend CofI services.
Interesting wrong answer this morning. I've heard that Duo has rushed translations, uses more AI BS, employs fewer people, etc. When I started Irish last year, it felt like alternative answers like this, which are idiomatically correct, would be accepted. I've had a few of these now where it gets marked wrong, despite being a real example of how people would phrase it in English. #gaeilge
25 Jan 1627: b. Robert Boyle future FRS, philosopher, scientist, patron of the #Irish#Gaeilge translation of the Bible at Lismore Castle #Waterford#otd (NPG)
14 Jan 1572: William Bedell baptized #otd at Black Notley #Essex He would become an embassy chaplain in #Venice, Provost of Trinity College #Dublin, Bishop of Kilmore & translator of #Bible to #Irish#Gaeilge (ECC/eebo)
13 Jan 1580: Fearganainm Ó Domhnalláin of #Galway enters #Cambridge University #otd under the name Nehemiah Donnellan - later Archbishop of #Tuam, he was involved in early 17thC printed translations of the New Testament and the Book of Common Prayer into #Gaeilge#Irish
13 Jan 1630: Robert Ussher (cousin of Archbishop James Ussher,below) becomes Provost of Trinity College #Dublin#otd
He promoted the teaching of #Gaeilge#Irish, but he also banned plays. He would later become Bishop of #Kildare.