20 May 1629: William Bedell, future translator of #Bible to #Irish#Gaeilge and Provost of Trinity College #Dublin is appointed Bishop of Kilmore & Ardagh by Letters Patent #otd (eebo)
“Siobhan is pronounced exactly as it's spelt in irish. There's no disconnect between spelling and pronunciation, unless you force a different languages pronunciation on it.”
cúnla ní b moss (@nibmoss):
“GUYS MERRIAM-WEBSTER DELETED THE TWEET!!!!!!!!!!!!! YOU'LL NEVER BEAT THE IRISH!!!!!!!” (2/2)
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?”
@angeidheal@gaidhlig@gaeilge Bidh sin a' tachairt gu tric ann an Glaschu. Tha 'fáilte' sgrìobhte air na soidhnichean aig a' mhosg mheadhain agus an long àrd... ged a tha 'fáilte' fada nas fhaisge air Gàidhlig na 'an bhfuil ocras'...
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
@turgon You post this on day 365, a day that seems worth celebrating, but passed like a sparrow before my eyes. When I delete Duo I will leave it behind like a snake sloughing its skin.
#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.
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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)