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Unpopular Opinions - OP Updated with Threadban List 4/5/21

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    #1922
    dubzjay
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    The Irish language could cease to exist in the morning and it would make zero difference.


    It is defunct. A utter was of time and money.


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    #1923
    FixdePitchmark
    Registered Users Posts: 20,823 ✭✭✭✭FixdePitchmark


    saabsaab wrote: »
    The Irish language has been around far longer that english only a philistine would like to see it die.

    .

    The philistines are gone and dead too.


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    #1924
    ChunkyLover54
    Registered Users Posts: 564 ✭✭✭ChunkyLover54


    dubzjay wrote: »
    The Irish language could cease to exist in the morning and it would make zero difference.


    It is defunct. A utter was of time and money.

    It appears the English language is also being strangled to death.


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    #1925
    Tacitus Kilgore
    Registered Users Posts: 2,128 ✭✭✭Tacitus Kilgore


    One man's waste of time & money is another man's beautiful piece of identity & heritage. Language is more than just a translation of words, it's a shame people can't see past that.


    Unpopular opinion - It's possible to be Irish, and not hate oneself.


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    #1926
    saabsaab
    Registered Users Posts: 7,895 ✭✭✭saabsaab


    whisky_galore wrote: »
    Languages come and go. No one gets killed in the process. Irish has ceased to be a working language by and large, it's been preserved in aspic to please lobby groups.

    The majority of Irish people may like Irish to survive, but hypocritically "someone else" must do that for them, the govt or schoolchildren. Someone living in the arse end of a Gaeltacht.
    Whoever. Doesn't matter.
    They're not going to break a sweat learning or relearning it for themselves.
    Ní dóigh liom go dtuigeann tú mé, i ndáiríre,


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    #1927
    saabsaab
    Registered Users Posts: 7,895 ✭✭✭saabsaab


    FixdePitchmark wrote: »
    The philistines are gone and dead too.


    Not at all judging by this thread!


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    #1928
    ancapailldorcha
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    saabsaab wrote: »
    I repeat the Irish language has been around far longer that english only a philistine would like to see it die, I'd say most Irish people would agree.

    This is a silly strawman. Nobody wants to see it die just as nobody wants to challenge the current establishment that have been bleeding it like ravenous leeches for generations nor does anyone want to actually learn it themselves once they're adults. Everyone just expects someone else to do it. It's pathetic.

    We sat again for an hour and a half discussing maps and figures and always getting back to that most damnable creation of the perverted ingenuity of man - the County of Tyrone.

    H. H. Asquith



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    #1929
    saabsaab
    Registered Users Posts: 7,895 ✭✭✭saabsaab


    ancapailldorcha wrote: »
    This is a silly strawman. Nobody wants to see it die just as nobody wants to challenge the current establishment that have been bleeding it like ravenous leeches for generations nor does anyone want to actually learn it themselves once they're adults. Everyone just expects someone else to do it. It's pathetic.


    Sadly you are wrong there are quite a few who want it to die and be rid, probably some on this thread. There is considerable anti-Irisah feeling out there. Thankfully some adults want to learn or re-learn the language and have doen so.


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    #1930
    Raconteuse
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,817 ✭✭✭Raconteuse


    ancapailldorcha wrote: »
    This is a silly strawman. Nobody wants to see it die just as nobody wants to challenge the current establishment that have been bleeding it like ravenous leeches for generations nor does anyone want to actually learn it themselves once they're adults. Everyone just expects someone else to do it. It's pathetic.
    Some absolutely do want it to die. Remember a poster who was frozen? :)

    Cannot abide the elitist gaelgoir types either btw and I do think it should just be an optional subject at school, but I would hate it to die out.


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    #1931
    ancapailldorcha
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    saabsaab wrote: »
    Sadly you are wrong there are quite a few who want it to die and be rid, probably some on this thread. There is considerable anti-Irisah feeling out there. Thankfully some adults want to learn or re-learn the language and have doen so.

    Tiny minorities in both cases compared to the scale of the problem.

    We sat again for an hour and a half discussing maps and figures and always getting back to that most damnable creation of the perverted ingenuity of man - the County of Tyrone.

    H. H. Asquith



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    #1932
    whisky_galore
    Registered Users Posts: 15,949 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    saabsaab wrote: »
    Ní dóigh liom go dtuigeann tú mé, i ndáiríre,

    Whatever you think yourself.

    You want to learn it, knock yourself out. Don't cod yourself thinking that you'll have a full conversation outside of a school or hobby language enthusiast setting.


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    #1933
    saabsaab
    Registered Users Posts: 7,895 ✭✭✭saabsaab


    whisky_galore wrote: »
    Whatever you think yourself.

    You want to learn it, knock yourself out. Don't cod yourself thinking that you'll have a full conversation outside of a school or hobby language enthusiast setting.


    Na Gaeltachtaí?, tá siad fós beo.


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    #1934
    whisky_galore
    Registered Users Posts: 15,949 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    saabsaab wrote: »
    Na Gaeltachtaí?, tá siad fós beo.

    Figures indicate that they are continually shrinking in speaker numbers.
    You going to drive to one every time you want a chat?


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    #1935
    Tony EH
    Registered Users Posts: 19,078 ✭✭✭✭Tony EH


    whisky_galore wrote: »
    Whatever you think yourself.

    You want to learn it, knock yourself out. Don't cod yourself thinking that you'll have a full conversation outside of a school or hobby language enthusiast setting.

    More than likely you'd be hard pressed to have a "full" conversation in those institutions too.

    The vast majority of Irish speakers have, basically, pigeon Irish. Whereby conversations on a fairly low level can be had. But anything requiring elaboration is usually absent.

    It's rare that you get to hear people conversing on an adult level in Irish.


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    #1936
    saabsaab
    Registered Users Posts: 7,895 ✭✭✭saabsaab


    Tá áiteanna gar le gach duine inar féidir le duine i a labhairt, mas mian leo.


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    #1937
    Ted_YNWA
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    saabsaab wrote: »
    Tá áiteanna gar le gach duine inar féidir le duine i a labhairt, mas mian leo.

    Please use this forum for Irish posting.

    https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=904

    The main language of AH is English.


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    #1938
    saabsaab
    Registered Users Posts: 7,895 ✭✭✭saabsaab


    I wondered when something od this nature would come up. You say 'main' language what is the other?


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    #1939
    Ted_YNWA
    Registered Users Posts: 71,799 ✭✭✭✭Ted_YNWA


    saabsaab wrote: »
    I wondered when something od this nature would come up. You say 'main' language what is the other?

    Please refer to the FAQs

    https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/faq.php?faq=bie_faq_guidelines#faq_bie_faq_guidelines_english


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    #1940
    [Deleted User]
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    The "WOKE" principal will feature in at least two projects in the "Young Scientists" exhibition held in January.


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    #1941
    saabsaab
    Registered Users Posts: 7,895 ✭✭✭saabsaab


    Read that. I can provide translation in future.Tá sé sin léite agam, cuirfidh mé aistriúchán ar fáil amach anseo.


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    #1942
    v638sg7k1a92bx
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    Staying at home and minding the kids is easier than working a full time job.


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    #1943
    [Deleted User]
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    saabsaab wrote: »
    Read that. I can provide translation in future.Tá sé sin léite agam, cuirfidh mé aistriúchán ar fáil amach anseo.

    Go away.


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    #1944
    saabsaab
    Registered Users Posts: 7,895 ✭✭✭saabsaab


    'Go away'? This started as a discussion of Irish culture and whether is should die. I believe in all aspects it shouldn't die and be replaced by an Anglo/American materialist mentality, I am not alone.


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    #1945
    Justin Credible Darts
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,404 ✭✭✭Justin Credible Darts


    saabsaab wrote: »
    'Go away'? This started as a discussion of Irish culture and whether is should die. I believe in all aspects it shouldn't die and be replaced by an Anglo/American materialist mentality, I am not alone.


    course you are not alone, its people like me who want it to die out are in the minority sadly, hence why its in the ...wait for it...unpopular opinions thread.


    or have you not grasped that yet


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    #1946
    saabsaab
    Registered Users Posts: 7,895 ✭✭✭saabsaab


    A rightly unpopular opinion and one that needed an answer. Thank God you're in the minority.


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    #1947
    Better Than Christ
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,135 ✭✭✭Better Than Christ


    Ted_YNWA wrote: »
    Please use this forum for Irish posting.

    https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=904

    The main language of AH is English.

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    #1948
    Raconteuse
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    Javion Fat Barbell wrote: »
    Staying at home and minding the kids is easier than working a full time job.
    Depends on the job, the ages of the children, how many children - nuances like that.


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    #1949
    Ted_YNWA
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    Better Than Christ wrote: »
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    The pen is not mightier than the hammer.

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    #1950
    saabsaab
    Registered Users Posts: 7,895 ✭✭✭saabsaab


    Cork is the real Irish capital.


    Maybe not that unpopular outside Cork?


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    #1951
    v638sg7k1a92bx
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    Raconteuse wrote: »
    Depends on the job, the ages of the children, how many children - nuances like that.

    Nuances like what? How many jobs are there out there that are easier than minding kids.

    Minding kids is easier than virtually any other job. This nonsense about how difficult it is to have kids is just rubbish. I loved being at home minding the kids eight months they basically slept the whole time.


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