…. the biggest local science-fiction convention. mia_mcdavid and our son J are already there. It is the tenth anniversary for this con, so they are extending it for an extra day. Hence we will be returning home on Sunday. The holiday helps.
Irish Class, June 30, 2008
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We have a class project for the summer: To translate a menu into
Irish. Each of us chose one item. I got:
Minnesota wild rice
stuffed chicken breast
I first reworded the English to
be
Breast of chicken with stuffing of wild rice
from Minnesota
Which I translated
as
Cíoch sicín le buiste ríc fiáin as
Minnesota
Monday’s class (more on that later) reminded me that I had not integrated my notes on plurals from class with the handout that Nick gave us afterwards. I worked on that this evening, and here is the result.
Tom, our severely autistic younger son, has been living away from us for the last two years. We go to visit him most weekends. Today I went to see him.
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