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Monday Night Irish Class, April 7, 2008
Irish class, April 7, 2008
Irish class, April 7, 2008
The first exercise was to take three scrambled sentences from an article
in Lá and put them back in order, without using our dictionaries.
The general form is:
- Verb
- Subject or subject Phrase. The noun will be in the nominative case.
- One of more of:
- Direct object
- Preposition phrase
- Adverbial Phrase
- Possibly a dependent clause. Look for go, nach or a+verbal noun. Then analyze as above.
It is a lot harder than it sounds, after step 1.
Linux as Gaeilge — a second look, with some thoughts about keyboards
As I suspected, I could not let go of this. I did some more research on the subject of my
previous post about this. Then I made a slightly different change to the keyboard section of /etc/X11/xorg.conf:
Linux as Gaeilge
Tá mé go maith. (I am well).
Getting fadas (acute accents in Irish) on my Linux systems proved to be simpler than I thought. I altered the keyboard section of /etc/X11/xorg.conf to look like code behind cut
Reading for Irish class
My annotated Gaeileoirí is now current, although it is a long way from being a full translation.
Monday Night Irish Class, March 24, 2008
Irish class, March 24, 2008
Irish class, March 24, 2008
We spent most of the first hour on conversation.
Monday Night Irish Class, March 17, 2008
Irish Class, March 17, 2008
Irish Class, March 17, 2008
The first event was an exercise in sentence structure. We were given several Irish sentences and were asked to pick out key grammatical elements
without actually translating them. We were looking for verbs, subjects,
objects, prepositional phrases, dependent clauses, and
genitives.
| admhaigh | admit |
| admhaím | I admit |
| rómhaith | very good |
| dream | group (of people) |
| measa | worse. Comp. of olc— bad, evil |
| casadh | twist, turn, reproach |
| riamh | ever, never |
| taobh | side, flank |
| dúchas | heritage, patrimony, native place |
| faoi láthair | at present |
| grinn | perceptive, accurate |
| arb | was (past of copula before a vowel |
| páirteach | participating, sharing, sympathetic |
| sraith | swath, course, layer, series, row, rate |
| ráchairt | run f2 |
| saighdiúir | soldier |
| cogadh domhanda | world war |
| troid | fight, quarrel f3 |
| arm | army. Also weapon, arm |
| sraidbhaile | village |
| bocht | poor person m1 |
| lár | middle, center. Also floor, ground |
Next came question and answer. Nick asked various general knowledge questions in Irish and we answered. This to see how well we could follow spoken Irish.
My weekend here
mia_mcdavid is in Michigan for the weekend and the first couple days of next week. Her aunt died after a long struggle with Alzheimer’s. She has posted about it, most recently here.
I cleaned off my workbench this morning, and am trying to make some progress on at least some of my unfinished projects. Quite a list
Irish Class–Monday Night, March 10, 2008
Irish Class, March 10, 2008
Irish Class, March 10, 2008
The first exercise was for each of us to say something as Gaeilge
about what we had done that day. For me the choice was easy, and for once
did not involve a lot of specialized vocbulary.
| Cheannaigh mé agus mo bhean cheile carr nua inniu. Is Ford Focus é an carr. Tá an carr liath. Dhíolamar seancarr as cead dollar. Bhíomar an sásta. |
My wife and I bought a new car today. The car is a Ford Focus. The car is gray. We sold the old car for one hundred dollars. We were very satisfied. |
Monday Night Irish Class, March 3, 2008
Irish Class, March 3, 2008
Irish Class, March 3, 2008
The first part of class was a translation exercise, with a twist: We were given 12
simple sentences in Scottish Gaelic, and asked to produce the Irish
equivalent, and the English translation:
From Hilbert Space to Dilbert Space, and beyond 