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Usually I don’t hear the vocative particle enunciated when native speakers address someone, but the effect is still there “ ‘Thomáis”
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bsky.app/profile/airn...
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I’ve never seen it but the plot description reminds me of Walter Macken’s The Scorching Wind
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crookedtimber.org/2007/01/27/
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Outlet online or Kildare village for best prices
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I have been very happy with ASICS GTX trainers
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Bon appetit 😋
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Fitzpatrick supposedly translates “Mac Giolla Phádraig”, son of the devotee of (St.) Patrick, so is not really a Norman name. Otherwise lots of the Norman Fitzes ended up in Ireland
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Macentagart and variations, common in Ireland, also Macanespie “son of the bishop”
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For me, the child catcher in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. Second place the Bigfoot episode of the Six Million Dollar Man
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Watership Down influenced so much of what I love and find satisfying in novels. I read it first when I was eight and immediately turned back to the start and read it again. The world building, the characters, the quest(s) even the chapter epigraphs
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YES
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Not showing up as KU yet
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I think we did in the past
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Very sorry to hear this - hard for us to believe, how much more so for you
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Yeah, my name is spelled the way it is because my father reckoned it was the best representation of the modern pronunciation (does lead Germans to think I’m a bucket, though)
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I vaguely recall some lesbian elements in Jessica Amanda Salmonson’s Tomoe Gozen but it must be over 20 years ago that I read it. Also did Mary Gentle have any suitable characters?
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Yeah, I feel Gaeilge is usually less mealy-mouthed about these things - in my experience “cac bó” is a factual description with no faint hint of taboo - but they were presumably paralleling “dog dirt” in the English version
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The local authorities appear to be using “salachar madra” and “mála salachar madra” in their leaflets / websites
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I think John Brunner’s The Sheep Look Up gives a good prediction of what would really happen with the “certified” food. A bit like the implausible amounts of manuka honey sold worldwide.
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I loved Goodness Gracious Me and also found so many parallels to Irish antics.
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Missed that, just realised I’m not actually following you which I thought I was.
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Here’s an interesting compare-and-contrast by an Irish lawyer with a recent EU decision, which quite rightly gives primacy to a person’s lived gender identity. www.thegist.ie/the-gist-tra...
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My current place of work has standardised on “Dear Colleagues” as the usual form where names are not specified
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I like to say to people - at first, you think the MC is difficult. Then later you think the TG is difficult. Eventually you realise that the real head wrecker is the séimhiú and all its rules and exceptions
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Is the right hand cap a bit grippier in shape? If so that’s probably the one you’re expected to adjust
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The Leaving Cert in those same times went up to Lemass & Co
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Long before Charles Handy, these guys had portfolio careers
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AFAIK most undertakers in rural Ireland were also publicans and in 18th/19th century would have supplied the snuff and tobacco, etc. for the wake along with the coffin. Some historical details about “wake amusements” here westcorkpeople.ie/columnists/f...
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It took me a while to remember why “my lord and dear companion” resonated so much with me, until I tracked it down as Ged to Arren in The Farthest Shore
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I’m pretty sure I heard it earlier than that, but specifically for maths. The mechanism was supposed to be that maths teachers paid more attention to boys in mixed classes
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Also, bang out of order… which I “hear” in an English accent
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(as in, that’s bang on= totally correct/ completely right, not as in waffle on)
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Bang on?
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Classic rural Irishman of my youth- new suit for Mass and occasions. Previous “good suit” downgraded to 2nd best - for expeditions to get the messages, etc. 3rd best becomes the farm working clothes (often waistcoat more than jacket). NB as woollen garments they have useful properties in drizzle etc
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Apparently we also don’t unplug appliances, we plug them out
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I think you’re in the wrong country for www.sailingindublin.ie which is for people without boats (well, we own the boats between us).
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I find it a great place to check against, but it would be quite information-dense to try to absorb wholesale. The historical insights into why certain features arose are nice too for those who like that kind of thing