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About gmcdavid

Retired IT professional with a wide range of interests. Married. Three sons, two with autistic-spectrum disorders and the third being transgender with Ehlers-Danlos syndrome. From Chicago but now living in the Twin Cities metro, Minnesota. Episcopalian. Carleton College (BA 1972, physics) and Stanford University (MS 1974, Applied Physics; MS 1976 Statistics).

Monday Night Irish Class, February 8, 2016

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Irish Class, February 8, 2016

Rang Gaeilge, 8ú lá mí Feabhra 2016

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Bhéarfadh súgán cátha chun dlí thú, is ní thabharfadh slabhra iarainn thar n-ais thú! it is easy to get entangled with the law and very hard to get back out of the entanglement.
súgán cátha rope of chaff
slabhra iarainn iron chain

Adjectives

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Monday Night Irish Class, February 1, 2016

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Irish Class, February 1, 2016

Rang Gaeilge, 1ú lá mí Feabhra 2016

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Seanfhocal

Cuireann duine snaidhm lena theanga nach bhfuasclóidh a fhiacla. A person ties a knot with his tongue that his teeth cannot loosen. He gets married.
Beidh lá eile ag an bPaorach. Better luck next time. “Power will have another day” [“Power” is not anyone in particular]
an rud nach binn le duine ní chluineann sé é. The thing that is not sweet [to the ear] is not heard.

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Monday Night Irish Class, January 11, 2016

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Irish Class, January 11, 2016

Rang Gaeilge, 11ú lá mí Eanáir 2016

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Is beag an aibhleog a lasann tine mhór. A small coal lights a big fire
Is doimhin é poll an amhrais. Deep is the hole of doubt.

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  • Cé acu Captaen spásloinge is glice, Kirk nó Picard? Tá Picard níos glice ná Kirk./Is glice Picard ná Kirk.

  • Ainnmnigh fear atá níos deise ná Donald Trump? Tá Will níos deise ná Donald Trump.

  • Cé acu beoir is áitiúla, Summit nó Guinness?

  • Cé acu cathair is fairsinge, San Francisco nó Los Angeles

  • Cé acu cathair is ísle, Denver nó Charleston

  • Ainnmnigh scannán atá níos stairiúla ná Braveheart? Tá Apollo 13 ….

Nuacht ó na stáit

Tógadh níos mó ná céad mac léinn go dtí hospidéil mar réamhchúram ó scoil Horace Mann i ndiaidh fuarthas amach méideanna ard aonocsaíde carbóin. [IL]

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Tá crann Nollag na priomhchatrach saorga sa bhliain seo, agus tá sé ar taispeáint i Halla Cuimhneacháin. [ND]

D’oscail arís Roinn na leabhar annamha Leabharlainne Poiblí i ndiadh ráig múscáin. [MA]

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No, they were not predicting an ice age.

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What were climate scientists predicting in the 1970s?

The fact is that around 1970 there were 6 times as many scientists predicting a warming rather than a cooling planet.

Their papers showed that the growing amount of greenhouse gasses that humans were putting into the atmosphere would cause much greater warming – warming that would exert a much greater influence on global temperature than any possible natural or human-caused cooling effects.