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My odd interests–as Gaeilge
One of the bloggers at Agus Araile has a series of posts called Wes’s words you may never or hardly ever use. I commented on one of them today, which comes from a part of Irish history that particularly interests me. Tonight I went through all the words he had posted. Far from being “words you may never or hardly ever use”, over half of them are relevant to one or another of my active interests.
New friends
Íomhá án lae. She and her husband came to Winona from the Chicago suburbs. With them came another Chicagoan, a retired professor from Roosevelt University who lives in Edgewater, two El stops south of where mia_mcdavid and I lived during the first nine years of our marriage. All three were in the advanced class.
Irish workshop–Saturday night and Sunday
Irish workshop–Saturday morning and afternoon
Irish Workshop — Friday night
In Winona
For Gaeltacht Minnesota‘s weekend workshop. Different dorm from last year, but still with wifi.
Yikes!
Next weekend I am going to Gaeltacht Minnesota‘s workshop in Winona, like I did a year ago. The workshop is split into sections based on experience/ability.
Today the instructor of my section sent an e-mail to everybody in it. The contents were not surprising, but the address list really got my attention. As I expected, there were two of my Monday night classmates from this past year, but I also recognized the address of one of Will’s students (i.e., from the advanced class) and that of a GM instructor. So it looks like the powers that be have placed me in an upper level group. I am flattered and scared.
Monday Night Irish Class, June 30, 2008
Irish Class, June 30, 2008
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 Night Irish Class: Plurals
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.
From Hilbert Space to Dilbert Space, and beyond 