Yes or No ?
Dead or Alive ?
Revive or Put To Sleep ?
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"
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
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
part of my privileged upbringing I attended an all Irish speaking primary school did all my subjects through Irish ....
A dead language - a complete waste of time - a waste of taxpayers money - get rid of duplication into Irish and save plenty of money Mr Lenihan.
Get rid of TG4 and put on something useful in English.