Tríar Manach: A Medieval Irish Joke.
Also translated to other languages.
Long ago I heard a variant of this joke from my father.
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Iriish Class–Monday Night, November 17, 2008
Irish Class, November 17, 2008
Rang Gaeilge, 17ú lá Mí na Samhna 2008
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Listening Exercise
Irish Class
Rang Gaeilge
I missed classed last week, and Wes missed class this week.
Knowing that Wes was planning to work on prepositions I did a little reading on my own, and came up with some notes on them and the mutations they induce.
I also found some specifics about the changes between the old and modern (Caighdeán) spelling. With my historical interests I expect I will be reading some older documents sooner or later.
Irish phrase of the day
teasbhás na cruinne: heat death of the universe. Continue reading
Irish/English dictionaries
- Pota Focal is easy to use.
- Focal.ie is the place to go for technical terms. E.g. heteroscedasticity is heitrisceideastacht.
- From An Gael I learned that Dinneen’s Irish English Dictionary has been scanned and can now be accessed on-line.
Beannachtaí na Féile Oíche Shamhna agaibh!
(Blessings of Samhain Eve/Halloween to you)
Iriish Class–Monday Night, October 27, 2008
Irish Class, October 27, 2008
Rang Gaeilge, an 27ú lá Mí Dheireadh Fómhair 2008
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We started with another listening exercise, similar to that of two weeks ago. I did not do well
at this.
Iriish Class–Monday Night, October 20, 2008
Irish Class, October 20, 2008
Rang Gaeilge, an 20ú lá Mí Dheireadh Fómhair 2008
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We started with a listening exercise, similar to that of two weeks ago. Again I did not do well
at this, though perhaps not as badly as then.
Iriish Class–Monday Night, October 6, 2008
Irish Class, October 3, 2008
Rang Gaeilge, an 6ú lá Mí Dheireadh Fómhair 2008
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Listening exercise. I did very poorly at this, but the discussion
afterwards was informative.
From Hilbert Space to Dilbert Space, and beyond 