Let's Stop Pretending that Irish is Alive and Well...

[paddyclog]

Jaisus ppl stop the irish bashing
70 % of the girls advertising on this speak a language none of you understand anyway so what is the deal with picking on a few ppl that want to keep a language alive ..and alive it is.

Just waiting for a profile of "Peg" and the first review in Irish (and comment from the provider in the same language)

[Sailor]

'Ní thagann caoill roimh aois' agus cheapaimse go bfhuil sibh ar nós na leanaí a tá ag freasatail ag an naoínra chéana is a bfhuil mo hiníon, níl sí ceithre blian fós. Úsaidim a mo theanga fhéin sa bhaile agus nuair a bhímse ag obair gach lá. Tá seans mhaith go bfhuil an teanga caillte ag an an cuid is mó dhíbhse ach tá sí go breo bríomhar, gan amhras, in iarthar na hÉirinn.

[talkabout]

Kevin Myers represents a national disorder.
Yak,Yak,Yak, Yakkity,Yak.
Go mbeidh tu beo an blian seo chugainn i mbarr do shlainte a Chaoimhin.

[funlover12]

Kevin Myers represents a national disorder.
Yak,Yak,Yak, Yakkity,Yak.
Go mbeidh tu beo an blian seo chugainn i mbarr do shlainte a Chaoimhin.

feach ar an data sna thread

sin eh tri bhlian!

[talkabout]

Professors of Lain and ancient Greek,Linguists,taxonomists,anatomists, etc

[talkabout]

Welsh is a living language even more so than Irish.
Cymru.

[talkabout]

feach ar an data sna thread

sin eh tri bhlian!

Nothing wrong with a bit of historical research! Or should I say stair is taighde.

[stiffyron]

Mar a deireann Ronán O Snódaigh:
Óro, leanfaidh mé ar aghaidh,
Tuisc ge bhfuil mé fós beo,
Leanfaidh mé ar agaidh
Fiú má cothaítear fadhb.

Kevin Mayers? Bodaicín gan aon agó!

[The Libertarian]

Mandarin, Hindi and Arabic would be my guess. Ofcourse English and Spanish will still be very important, I just think those 3 will have a much higher profile in 100 years.

I wouldn't discount Russian either, if it's population size stabilises! Mind You despite, the prominence of the Japanese economically since the 1950s, Japanese never became a hugely significant world language, also it's probably the hardest to learn of all the languages mentioned

[The Libertarian]

... and read Kevin Myers' take on it, in today's Indo.

Feel free to debate, if you are able.

Kevin Myers: Let's debunk the myth of Irish as a living language, it now represents failure and a national disorder - Kevin Myers, Columnists - Independent.ie

Myers is like a pseudo intellectual ED (Eamon Dunphy) and Dunphy is an enfant terrible of sorts to thick to be even a pseudo intellectual!