If I may just speak frankly for a minute,
the possibly now departed Dr. Love had a comment in his signature about people that think they know everything and Amylove in her sig mentions people who have to have the last word.
On both counts, I hold my hand up, thus I know everything about foreign countries with quaint customs like monarchs and marching seasons.
If you speak of private schools or are a young un(anything younger than me) I discount your comment.
I sometimes have to remind myself that I am old enough, just about, to be the father(age wise) of 85% of escorts here and of a good many male posters too,
hence I often regress in my thinking to the early 1980s and by God, back then, long, long, before the Good Friday agreement ;state funding of Irish in state schools in NI was as common as hen's teeth.
Sincerely yours,
A know it all.
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Shalom/salaam.
10,000 years of Middle Eastern civilisation and the place is not at peace but rather in pieces.
Oiche mhaith duit.
O mo dhia!
B'eigean dom postail i mBearla amhain.
Gabh mo leithsceil. Job eile dos na mods amarach.
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Shalom/salaam.
10,000 years of Middle Eastern civilisation and the place is not at peace but rather in pieces.
What was school like for those 40 yrs plus here, no proper language classes, no computers, just a pad and paper and a bog standard calculator
Last edited by knibbs; 21-12-15 at 00:28.
It was behind a hedge, with the rain beating off us as if we were in Frank Mc Court's childhood house and a mad non Christian Brother and Sister of no Mercy practicing BDSM. before the term had been invented.
Shur didn't it make us the country we are today.
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Shalom/salaam.
10,000 years of Middle Eastern civilisation and the place is not at peace but rather in pieces.
Do we even have private schools in the north? And I am certainly no spring chicken myself. I was taught in an ordinary secondary school for boys, my sister was taught in a similar girls school and was also taught Irish, I have to say most catholic schools taught Irish. not that it did me any good, don't have a single word of it now.
Much the same result in the south.
Vast resources spent teaching Irish, lots resent having to learn it and few enough retain much of it and never make any use of it after leaving school.
A few have found employment if they had fluent Irish, in broadcasting or translation or whatever so a few have found a use for it. I picked up a good bit by osmosis and remember most of it but never use it for anything(unless CurvyNina gets fluent and wants to have a conversation :-)
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Shalom/salaam.
10,000 years of Middle Eastern civilisation and the place is not at peace but rather in pieces.