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le do thoil ceartaigh orm💜
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L + ratio + your language doesn’t even decline prepositional pronouns
you wish you were us
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i think irish is a really important language in a historical sense as well as a cultural sense and its kinda upsetting to me that so many people have such a hatred for it. i understand why; its forced down peoples throats and taught fucking terribly. its seen as an obligation by most people, rather than an important part of ones cultural identity. i, myself, despised the language until perhaps a year or so ago due to the way it is taught.
however, ive started looking at the more human aspects of irish history recently, particularly in regards to joseph mary plunkett. he was one of the leaders of the 1916 easter rising who was executed in kilmainham gaol afterwards. the night before he was executed, he got married to his wife, Grace Gifford. Hours before he was executed. He, as did many other people, gave up their lives for something they valued deeply. Irish independence. Something that people had been trying to achieve for centuries.
In 1986, Jim McCann wrote a song in the perspective of Joseph Plunkett speaking to Grace Gifford. its such an emotional song to me.
"Oh, Grace, just hold me in your arms and let this moment linger
Theyll take me out at dawn and I will die.
With all my love, I place this wedding ring upin your finger.
There won't be time to share our love, for we must say goodbye."
People gave up their lives. Even one life is massively important; many lives are so, so impactful. to me, it feels like a disservice to not make an effort to preserve the irish language when people gave up their lives to keep a piece of this country alive. something so important to them. something so important to me as well.
i dont exactly know what the point im trying to make here is. im just rambling somewhat incoherently. i am perhaps slightly too emotional about this, but i dont see it as a particularly bad thing. people are important. history is important. culture is important to me.
also irish is just very fucking poetic. "tá ocras an domhain orm" THE HUNGER OF THE WORLD IS UPON ME. also im pretty sure that the irish word for a ladybird translates directly to "gods small cow"..? i may have made that up idk.
my rant is over yay. is maith liom gaeilge 💪 ceapaim sé an-deas. (i apologise if this isnt gramatically correct, my irish isnt the best)
and also most place names in ireland are just anglicised? liek they have no real meaning but in irish theyre “place of [blank]” “[blank]’s church” etc etc. the irish language is connected to the land down to towns being named after the creeks and rivers and forests and churches etc. the irish language is so important to the actual geography of ireland as well.
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More loser men in my inbox??? Hell yeah!!! :D
you mean constipated loser men
DONT LISTEN TO HER. I CAN SHIT.
NO HE CANT I HAVE WITNESSES TO CONFIRM THIS FACT @moongasux @ennarchy
no puede shitar (idk how to say shit and im supposed to be revising spanish rn)
níl caca ar bith aige😢
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Gramatical gender in Irish is so interesting.
For the most part, the same terms are used for men and women, nouns are the same, the only different thing is the definitive article.
In most gendered languages, male is the default (Eg: my friends in Spanish for a group containing 9 women and 1 man uses the masculine version of the word friend) but Irish doesn’t really work that way.
Nothing about a noun also doesn’t tell you it’s gender, you just kinda have to know.
hi uh i might be being really stupid and reading your last sentence wrong and im really really sorry of i am, but there are ways to tell if a noun in irish is feminine or masculine, heres the thingy from my textbook bc i cant explain it really well lol
