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
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.
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
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.
18 Nov 1629: d. Flaithrí Ó Maolchonaire (Florentius Conrius) at #Madrid, founder of the #Franciscan#Irish college in #Leuven#otd theologian, translator into #Gaeilge#Irish, politician, archbishop of Tuam.
Online lecture on Irish folklore (Léacht Almqvist 2023):
The 2023 Bo Almqvist Memorial Lecture will be presented by Dr Éilís Ní Dhuibhne Almqvist of The Folklore of Ireland Society on Friday 24 November at 7:30 pm GMT (=2:30 pm EST) on Zoom. The lecture's title is 'A Scholar and a Storyteller: Bo Almqvist and Mícheál Ó Gaoithín', and the speaker will be introduced by Barbara Hillers of Indiana University.
Duo used to be good about catching identical meanings that differed from the literal translation. I had this #gaeilge one come up during my practice this morning. My attempt wasn't what they wanted, but I'd argue it works? (oh well)
23 Oct 1643: Mícheál Ó Cléirigh dates the preface #otd for his Foclóir [Dictionary] of the #Irish language #Gaeilge printed on the friars’ press at #Leuven dedicated to Boetius Egan #Franciscan bishop of #Elphin (eebo)