I am Irish and I love my language. I love to speak it, read it and hear it. It's like music to my soul. So it aches that I cannot use it very much any more. My husband and colleagues have very little (if any) Irish. It's only around my family that I get to use it for more than simple sentences, properly spoken with the real natural pronunciation and not the 'standard' dialect I use for non-native speakers. To go from fluent to the state my Irish is in now breaks my heart. Sadly given the international context of my work this is unlikely to change.
I-mathematician is Ito and 'i' is for the square root of minus one.
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Bergdoktor 2014
3 years ago
I love to hear the Irish Language I have been to Ireland several times and was enchanted by it,
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Cathy, here's to making it this far, c, we did it! Congratulations! I have an award for you!!
ReplyDeleteI don't know if I'll ever get to see Ireland, but I'm pretty sure there's a reason why it's so magical.
ReplyDeleteI don't have the least bit of Irish in me (that I know of) but one of my friends is from Cork and another from Dublin. It's amazing the difference of words, even in different parts of the country itself.
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I'd love to be able to speak Irish better, while I was strong at languages in school I never paid Irish that much attention, mostly because of the way it was taught. But now that I'm older I think I understand how important it is. I keep threatening to take a class or something but so far haven't gotten around to it.
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