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OBSESSED with the spice bag header!

GRMA a chara!!

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dead

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I finished watching Crá yesterday and now I need to try to persuade as much of tumblr as possible to watch it too.

It's an Irish-language murder mystery TV series set in Donegal, though it's subtitled in English, so you don't need Irish to follow it. It's not a cheerful series - Crá translates to torment - and nearly every single character is in some way corrupt, compromised or morally grey. But it's extremely well-produced, it's gripping, it has an utterly stunning soundtrack (by a Breton composer!) and it's visually gorgeous:

This is the first ever Irish-language TV show to get a primetime slot in Northern Ireland. And I would utterly love for the BBC to invest in more of this kind of thing (it's a BBC/TG4 coproduction). So if this sounds like something you'd be interested in, please help make it a success!

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she's a hero. she should dump her west brit "friends" and become friends with me instead

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ÉISTPHÉIST

I love tearma.ie

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I love tearma.ie

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By Daniel 'DanDi'.

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Barrys>Lyons.

Agus sin iad na fíricí.

Maróidh mé do phórlíne iomlán má faigheann mé tú ag rá an focail sin arís

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Nollaig shona daoibh uile dhaoine!

(Null-ig hun-a dee-uv ill-ah yee-knee)

Merry christmas everyone!

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L + ratio + your language doesn’t even decline prepositional pronouns

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Me trying to lure a greek cat: ψψψψψψ

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Also shout-out to the Swedes for just borrowing the French "adieu" into their vocabulary and just spelling it "adjö"

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IS É SIN AN FHIRINNE

is aoibheannn liom

An ghaeilge

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is aoibheannn liom

An ghaeilge

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rud a fholaim mé inniu: nuair atá mé ólaithe, ní thuigim ach an ghaeilge

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Irish language things

One of the many things I find interesting about Irish is that we have no word for yes or no. There are a few languages like this in which you echo back the question as a response.

So in English if you are asking “Did you buy ___?”.

You could reply with “I did buy ___”, but that’s quite formal and nobody would really say that. So you can simply reply with “yes/ no”.

But in Irish if you ask the same thing “Ar cheannaigh tú ___?”.

You can only reply with “Cheannaigh mé/ Níor cheannaigh mé ___”. Meaning I did buy/ I didn’t buy ___.

Young Irish speakers try to get away with using “Tá” or “Sea” as a universal yes and “Níl” as a universal no. But this is incorrect and drives older Irish speakers/ teachers mad. So don’t use them in your orals!

Most people do shorten things by just saying “Cheannaigh/ Níor cheannaigh” and not echoing back the whole sentence of what you did/ didn’t buy.

But yeah it’s just another one of those interesting linguistic things that can’t be fully translated to English. And it actually causes problem for people in school learning Irish because we try to translate what we’re thinking in English onto the paper.

Gotta love the English colonialism still affecting us to this day!

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okay but to whoever had to put the lyrics on siúil a rún had literally ONE JOB and it did not turn well I’m still laughing