I'm new here

Hi, this is my "I'm new here" post!
I'll have a look around and will no doubt start chatting soon.
Well after lunch.

Qu1zMaster wrote:

Hi, this is my "I'm new here" post!
I'll have a look around and will no doubt start chatting soon.
Well after lunch.

Fáilte romhat agus do chupán tae!:

Oh, I'd recommend you sign your name here.

Welcome Qu1zMaster - delighted you signed on. We're good ones for going off-topic here as well - recently bi-lingually too thanks to Ard-Taoiseach and others...

Going off topic ?? Whatever does that mean ?

Hi Quiz.

Auditor #9 wrote:

Welcome Qu1zMaster - delighted you signed on. We're good ones for going off-topic here as well - recently bi-lingually too thanks to Ard-Taoiseach and others...

Seafóid glan! Táim i gcónaí ar an dtopic!

Ard-Taoiseach wrote:

Auditor #9 wrote:

Welcome Qu1zMaster - delighted you signed on. We're good ones for going off-topic here as well - recently bi-lingually too thanks to Ard-Taoiseach and others...

Seafóid glan! Táim i gcónaí ar an dtopic!

Níor imigh mé ón toipic riamh.Fáilte reoit' = an-mhaith

Your very welcome Quizmaster

Welcome Qu1z, how are things with you?

Welcome Quiz! ... Try Twinings Assam

And yet another question to everyone else! God I'll drive you all mad with these questions, but ... at what point in my emigration did "romhat" become "reoit"?!?! this is a genuine question, sorry.

Atticus wrote:

Welcome Quiz! ... Try Twinings Assam

And yet another question to everyone else! God I'll drive you all mad with these questions, but ... at what point in my emigration did "romhat" become "reoit"?!?! this is a genuine question, sorry.

I took it to be one of Seathrún's quirky puns... keeps you on your linguistic toes, that guy.

Kate P wrote:

Atticus wrote:

Welcome Quiz! ... Try Twinings Assam

And yet another question to everyone else! God I'll drive you all mad with these questions, but ... at what point in my emigration did "romhat" become "reoit"?!?! this is a genuine question, sorry.

I took it to be one of Seathrún's quirky puns... keeps you on your linguistic toes, that guy.

yeah just got that. Only have the remnants of basic Irish to my shame so forgive my slowness there. Must remedy that.

Atticus wrote:

Kate P wrote:

Atticus wrote:

Welcome Quiz! ... Try Twinings Assam

And yet another question to everyone else! God I'll drive you all mad with these questions, but ... at what point in my emigration did "romhat" become "reoit"?!?! this is a genuine question, sorry.

I took it to be one of Seathrún's quirky puns... keeps you on your linguistic toes, that guy.

yeah just got that. Only have the remnants of basic Irish to my shame so forgive my slowness there. Must remedy that.

Not at all! You're in good company here - a lot of us are refamiliarising ourselves and startlingly (and very reassuringly) nobody every complains if you drop a massive clanger. 'Is fearr Gaeilge briste ná Béarla cliste' is the motto.

Das geht doch schon!

Kate P wrote:

Atticus wrote:

Kate P wrote:

Atticus wrote:

Welcome Quiz! ... Try Twinings Assam

And yet another question to everyone else! God I'll drive you all mad with these questions, but ... at what point in my emigration did "romhat" become "reoit"?!?! this is a genuine question, sorry.

I took it to be one of Seathrún's quirky puns... keeps you on your linguistic toes, that guy.

yeah just got that. Only have the remnants of basic Irish to my shame so forgive my slowness there. Must remedy that.

Not at all! You're in good company here - a lot of us are refamiliarising ourselves and startlingly (and very reassuringly) nobody every complains if you drop a massive clanger. 'Is fearr Gaeilge briste ná Béarla cliste' is the motto.

...and even that's beyond me.

Broken Irish is better than clever English.

briste (brishta) is broken, cliste (clishta) is clever - you could drop both of those words into the occasional post, ibis.

Kate P wrote:

Broken Irish is better than clever English.

briste (brishta) is broken, cliste (clishta) is clever - you could drop both of those words into the occasional post, ibis.

Perhaps, from time to time....I'm quite a happy monoglot, particularly since I feel that learning just one language properly is a lifetime's work (and completely pointless, as a result).

Wasn't it Dali who said we should never fear perfection - because we'll never attain it?
Do you feel at a loss because you have only 'cúpla feck-all', as you've said before?

Kate P wrote:

Wasn't it Dali who said we should never fear perfection - because we'll never attain it?
Do you feel at a loss because you have only 'cúpla feck-all', as you've said before?

Only in Krugers'!

Kate P wrote:

Broken Irish is better than clever English.

briste (brishta) is broken, cliste (clishta) is clever - you could drop both of those words into the occasional post, ibis.

I always felt that was a quitters attitude. :-)

Gaeilge bhriste is atrocious, gaeilge chliste is divine.

ibis wrote:

Kate P wrote:

Broken Irish is better than clever English.

briste (brishta) is broken, cliste (clishta) is clever - you could drop both of those words into the occasional post, ibis.

Perhaps, from time to time....I'm quite a happy monoglot, particularly since I feel that learning just one language properly is a lifetime's work (and completely pointless, as a result).

Maybe, but as one author once said, a man who speaks no other language, never properly understands his own.

riadach wrote:

ibis wrote:

Kate P wrote:

Broken Irish is better than clever English.

briste (brishta) is broken, cliste (clishta) is clever - you could drop both of those words into the occasional post, ibis.

Perhaps, from time to time....I'm quite a happy monoglot, particularly since I feel that learning just one language properly is a lifetime's work (and completely pointless, as a result).

Maybe, but as one author once said, a man who speaks no other language, never properly understands his own.

Indeed - but I can read Latin, Greek, Spanish, Norwegian and a couple of others, and speak French (all fairly slowly, mind) , so I don't worry too much. I'm only a monoglot in English/Irish terms.

Time to learn ibis some irish and get him fluent like the rest of us. ahem.

what are the basic ways of saying hello and i'm fine in irish? maybe we could optionally greet any newcomers here with those words..

Q. Cén chaoi a bhfuil tú? Cad as duit??
A. Tá mé go maith ?? Ceart go leor ????

Ibis Can you really read Norwegian ?? And greek? (ancient?)

ibis wrote:

riadach wrote:

ibis wrote:

Kate P wrote:

Broken Irish is better than clever English.

briste (brishta) is broken, cliste (clishta) is clever - you could drop both of those words into the occasional post, ibis.

Perhaps, from time to time....I'm quite a happy monoglot, particularly since I feel that learning just one language properly is a lifetime's work (and completely pointless, as a result).

Maybe, but as one author once said, a man who speaks no other language, never properly understands his own.

Indeed - but I can read Latin, Greek, Spanish, Norwegian and a couple of others, and speak French (all fairly slowly, mind) , so I don't worry too much. I'm only a monoglot in English/Irish terms.

Well, if you have greek, then there isn't much argument I can give for Irish in regards to linguistic awareness.

However, what about cultural awareness. You are familiar with Irish history, never wanted to read the original Irish romances in their original language? Cogadh Gaedhel re Gallaibh is remarkably intelligible to many modern Irish speakers. As are many of the political poems of the 17th 18th and early 19th century, which give a great insight into common political attitudes of era, (with great use of metaphor, and linguistic ability and wordcraft, if perhaps not always original in their underlying themes). Not to mention the satires (on which Dean swift drew a lot, as well as Aided Fergusa, fergus's adventures in the land of the little people), such as Aislinge Meic Conglinne( a satire on the newly reformed church in the 12th though not easy to understand from a moden Irish point of view), Pairlimint na mBan (a satire on the role of women in late 18th century Ireland), An Ceithearnach Caolriabhach (satire on the marchen), Stair Éamann Uí Chléirigh (an 18th century satire dealing with someones alcohol problems disguised in a marchen), Pairlimint Chloinne Thomáis (a satire on the role of the noveau riche in 17th century Ireland after the collapse of the aristocracy).

I could go on.