Irish Class. January 7, 2008
Irish Class, January 7, 2008
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Notes for a scéal, although I only used the first
two sentences in the conversational part of class
Tá orm strus mór ag obair. Tá agam bainisteoir olc. Is
tíoránach suarach é. Is fuath le na hoibrithe é. Teastaíonn post nua
uaim b’fhéidir
We played a couple rounds of 20 question (Who am I), with Nick
being the subject–some particular public figure. It became clear
that Nick sees a lot of People magazine and its kin than
the rest of us.
| fear gorm | black man (race). Lit. blue man | cf. Fórsaí gorma, “black forces” from December 3 |
| An bhfuil tú beo | Are you alive? |
Then he did a couple exercises where he described a
scene as Gaeilge and we tried to draw a picture of it.
From Hilbert Space to Dilbert Space, and beyond 