Yes or No ?
Dead or Alive ?
Revive or Put To Sleep ?
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The Irish Language- An Gaeilge
Yes or No ?
Dead or Alive ?
Revive or Put To Sleep ?
Leave it alone. It is part of who we are and part of our heritage. But should be made an optional language in secondary and not mandatory...
But ban the worst most torturous book in history "PEIG"
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As usual Eps............
Well said...........Originally Posted by Epsilon
Up with Irish.............
Down with Peig.............
"It's far easier to fight for principles than to live up to them."
L
Peig
Peig? Fuck me we had it in school and the fat geit would come into the class and tell us to open such and such a page on Peig.Great but the trouble is we were learning the bloody thing and he would go on and discuss Peig in Irish ?????? I did the proper thing and went away and bought the English version and what a miserable fuckin book.All good news.This person goes to America and Thomas juniors donkey drowns or some other shite. One guy in it had a lovely breakfast and left the house and fell over the cliff.Seriously if your ever depressed i highly recommend Peig to cheer up your day.What a miserable geit. Peig Sayers is seen as some kind of icon in the Blaskets. I see her as nothing but a moaning geit would had to through her troubles on other ppls laps.
Peig goes to the mainland.........oh plz no dont,
Westside.
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Tis all double dutch to me.
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Yaaarrr, my Ladyfriend teaches in a dreaded Gaelscoil and the jibberish does do me head in.
So although it is very much "ALIVE "unfortunately it is a resounding "PUT TO SLEEP " from me.
She has other talents -- chuk chuk !
No interest in it
they tried to belt it into us,force us to learn it.
no interest in it,
Westside.
its alive and well, People are flocking to Irish schools, Irish pre-schools, and parents are encouraging their children to love our native tongue, it will never be our first language but it is ours and it sets Irish people apart from others.
I give the full endorsement
Last edited by Noah; 03-02-10 at 15:15. Reason: typo
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Language barrier
Yaaarrr, sorry I am a bit anti Gaelige but Westies experience of it sums it up for me.
School hours are short enough for this to be a statutory subject.
The other issue I laugh at is whomever is responsible for keeping it live and creating
new translated words is somewhat lacking in originality.---- eg --
CUP OF TEA = CUPAN TAE
CONDOM = CONDAM
AIRPORT = AERFORT
HELICOPTER = HEILEACAPTAR
FFS , and that was just the first few words I looked up.
An awful lot of Irish people I talk to are struggling with the Prime language let alone
learning Irish.
My maths teacher used to say --- Pytagoras`s Teorem
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And don't forget the infamous "hang sangwidge".My maths teacher used to say --- Pytagoras`s Teorem
revive the language!
part of my privileged upbringing I attended an all Irish speaking primary school did all my subjects through Irish....
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