Are you comfortable

REAL LIFE HOOD

forgetting the Irish language and allowing it drift into obscurity????????

Have we no sense of self that as a country we don't wish to seek a language which makes us unique.

I was talking to a Portuguese friend of mine and she said 'i'd hate if we spoke english in portugal'

I couldn't agree more and wondered to myself how many little englanders say how its great we speak english because sure wouldn't we stil be living in dirt if they hadn't come and made us barbarians a civilised people!!!!

STBR

REAL LIFE HOOD wrote: »

Are you comfortable
forgetting the Irish language and allowing it drift into obscurity????????

Yes.

Dublindude69

SirDarren wrote: »

Yes.

Dito

Cianos

SirDarren wrote: »

Yes.Tá.

fyp

pikachucheeks

Taim compordeach, sea! Agus tu fein?

humberklog

Cheerio.

laugh

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Naikon

Yes, it serves no purpose anymore.
It's a relic of the past I am afraid.

mikom

REAL LIFE HOOD wrote: »

Are you comfortable

Yes, then I'll begin.
Once upon a time in a land far far away there lived three little pigs... Nama pig, Lisbon pig, and Gerry Ryan pig....

tommyboy2222

Yes.

****ing projector.

Latchy

I am off to my Leaba now .......Slean

REAL LIFE HOOD

SirDarren wrote: »

Yes.

Exhibit A: we see how the British elite have conditioned the Irish to be little Englanders.

The languages spoken in Ireland should be Irish. French would also have a place so we would be bilingual and move closer towards our true friends across the water and not the enemy British elite.

English would be thought but for our children Irish and French should be the main languages. Why speak the tongue of an Establishment which has treated us as a people with contempt.

Naikon

REAL LIFE HOOD wrote: »

Exhibit A: we see how the British elite have conditioned the Irish to be little Englanders.

Langauge is not the only attribute that identifies a nationality.

Pygmalion

I never considered myself patriotic or anything but once I actually decided to put some effort into learning it for the LC I found it's a great language and was pretty disappointed it wasn't used more.
I still can't speak it at all, due to not caring about it until right before my LC, but in the last few months (I've just finished LC now, so am including my study time) I learned a lot of the basic stuff that I'd neglected in school, if I have enough free time in future I'd love to keep going with it, but I'm not great with languages and have no idea how to go about teaching myself, I also don't know anyone who speaks it that well and would be willing to help.

pikachucheeks

Latchy wrote: »

I am off to my Leaba now .......Slean

Ta me ag dul go dti ar mo leaba anois ... Slan!

I hope that's right!
Ta suil agam go bhfuil ta se ... right...

Aldebaran

I don't have to speak Irish if I don't want to, same way you don't have to speak English if you don't want to.

FlutterinBantam

"Táim" would be better butter cheeks.;)

Pygmalion

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It's a question about Irish, not in Irish, surely you at least know the difference between those 2?

As for the Irish forum, wouldn't make sense to ask it in there since that forum is filled entirely with people who DO like the language, and is generally used for specific questions about grammar or translations.

monkeyfudge

I'm pretty comfortable that I don't speak a language that essentially died out in the 18th century... yes.

Wouldn't be too thrilled if I was speaking 18th century English either actually.

Naikon

Pygmalion wrote: »

I never considered myself patriotic or anything but once I actually decided to put some effort into learning it for the LC I found it's a great language and was pretty disappointed it wasn't used more.
I still can't speak it at all, due to not caring about it until right before my LC, but in the last few months (I've just finished LC now, so am including my study time) I learned a lot of the basic stuff that I'd neglected in school, if I have enough free time in future I'd love to keep going with it, but I'm not great with languages and have no idea how to go about teaching myself, I also don't know anyone who speaks it that well and would be willing to help.

It's not that you are 'crap at irish'. It's because schools in this
country can't teach Irish at a reasonable level of competancy.

Pygmalion

FlutterinBantam wrote: »

"Táim" would be better butter cheeks.;)

"I'm" vs. "I am" would be a decent comparison I think.

Sharpshooter

monkeyfudge wrote: »

I'm pretty comfortable that I don't speak a language that essentially died out in the 18th century... yes.

Wouldn't be too thrilled if I was speaking 18th century English either actually.

Go raibh maith agut.