Pól Ó Gráda

Ba mheasa fós feachtas 1997 de réir mar is cuimhin liom.

Achainí ar pholaiteoirí agus lucht aistrithe óráidí polaiteoirí:

Tá sé ceart go leor an uimhir 10 a athrú go 20 scaití.

Is deise i bhfad 'na scórtha blianta' in áit 'na deicheanna de bhlianta'. Scaoiligí uaibh 'decades' an Bhéarla.

The Politics of Memory: Ten Years of War in Syria The crisis that began in Syria in 2011, first as a peaceful uprising but then spiraling into civil war, has been among the most tragic and destructive

Syria announces that March 18 will be its official Revolution Day:

sana.sy/en/presidenc...

For years, celebrations were held on March 15, despite the fact that the Deraa uprising happened on March 18, 2011.

Here’s my 2021 essay on how that came to be:

tcf.org/content/comm...

How to Build a Dictionary: On the Hard Art of Popular Lexicography At the end of the first quarter of the twenty-first century, about 400 million people are native English speakers. With those for whom English is a second language, the number reaches far above: betw…

Ilan Stavans and Peter Gilliver discuss the art of creating a dictionary: “The size of the task of compiling a comprehensive dictionary…has now grown far beyond what a single individual could hope to achieve in a lifetime.”
lithub.com/how-to-build...

Sparálfaí bolg nimhneach ort, go teicniúil, dá gcloífeá leis na castáin sa chistin.

Difríocht thábhachtach don té a íosfas é, fiú má fheictear do foclóir.ie gurb é an rud céanna atá ann!

Tá roinnt foclóirí póca againn ón John O'Grady céanna. De réir mo athar, go ndéana Dia a ghrásta air, bhíodh sé ag iarraidh cúpla focal a rá leis na mairnéalaigh eachtrannacha a thagadh isteach sa phort. Is cosúil gur ón taobh sin a fuair mé mo dhúil sna teangacha!

Scéalta agam faoi roinnt de na sin-sheantuismitheoirí eile ach ní cuimhin liom a n-ainmneacha baiste a thuilleadh cé gur luadh liom cuid mhaith acu.

Mo shin-sheanaithreacha ar thaobh mo athar amháin, John O'Grady a bhí ina thiománaí craenach ar dhugaí BhÁC agus Joseph Hopkins a bhí ina mhairnéalach ar an Hare, an long a thug fóirithint isteach chuig na hoibrithe le linn an Lockout, cailleadh é nuair a cuireadh an Hare go tóin poill sa chogadh.

Ach feicim anois sa phostáil ó Vincent Morley gur traslitriú oifigiúil caighdeánach ón Úcráinis go dtí an aibítir Laidineach i gcoitinne atá i gceist anseo. Sin scéal eile agus níl a leithéid ann i gcás na hAraibise, mar shampla.

Ach is traslitriú atá i gceist anseo pé scéal é. Ní fheicim aon chúis mhaith gan traslitriú a úsáid atá ag luí le litriú na Gaeilge agus a chuireann foghraíocht an leagan bhunaidh in iúl níos fearr.

Oh, wait, I've got one take with no canceling counter-takes that's good to go right now:

DON'T. WATCH. GORE.

Mise ceartaithe ag leanaí éigipteacha an cheantair toisc go ndúirt mé 'maith' seachas 'go math'. Is cosúil nach bhfuil deireadh go fóill le forlámhas Chuige Mumhan ar na múinteoirí bunscoile.

Gareth Roberts, Associate Professor of Linguistics, presents "How Old is Language?" at today's first 60-Second Lecture of the fall semester. @upenn.edu @garicgymro.bsky.social #60Second #language #linguistics

Is mór an trua nach gcluintear an chantaireacht sin tuilleadh ar an Aifreann seachas na hiomainn leamha a chantar de ghnáth!

Cad é a tharla do na siopaí rothar in Éirinn, táthar ag rá liom nach bhfuil sliotán ar fáil go ceann seachtaine le mo rothar a dheisiú!

Beannachtaí na Cásca ó Chaireo na hÉigipte

GRMA!

An bhfuil 'Scéal' ar fáil ar shuiomh/aip an Irish Times? Tá síntiús agam ach ní fheicim áit ar bith é.

4 images dessinées. 2 bonhomme se font face, assis autour d'un bureau : -Dernière question.. quel est votre pire défaut ? - Je suis très franc. - Je ne vois pas en quoi c'est.. Le bonhomme de droite se hisse sur le bureau, cette fois il arbore un casque de viking : - POUR CLOVIS ! SOUVIENS TOI DU VASE DE SOISSON. Il tranche le bras de son interlocuteur et met le feu partout. - Mais je reste avant tout un candidat dynamique et proactif.

Dans la série, y a des comptes qui ne postent toujours pas ici et c'est un scandale, voici : @ami-ininteressant.bsky.social

“To return home requires humility in the face of friends and family who stayed behind in Syria with so much dignity and strength. Those of us who are returning owe them compassion and a willingness to listen.”

✍Tamara Alrifai

bit.ly/4hrQ2Cu

#damascus #syria

Fieldwork tip: if, in the course of a long elicitation session, your consultant translates "black pepper" as "may it get into your eyes", it may be time for a break.

(from Barth's 1850 vocabulary of Emghedesie.
My reconstruction:
nda a-hur ni-n moo-yo
if 3SG-enter 2SG-GEN eye-PL)

Does anyone know of anywhere in Brussels to get good children's books in Arabic?

Bhuel anois, is aisteach gur luaigh tú é sin ach beidh an leagan closleabhair de m'úrscéal, Madame Lazare, ar fáil faoi cheann cúpla seachtainí. Tá sé i gceist ag @barzazie.bsky.social a bheith ag foilsiú de réir a chéile leaganacha closleabhar de na húrscéalta atá á n-aistriú go Gaeilge acu.

Labhraím idir Araibis agus Bhéarla le mo bhean agus Gaeilge don chuid is mó leis an leanbh, ach an chorr-uair a deirim rud éigin as Gaeilge le mo bhean de thaisme, ní bhím in ann é a aistriú ach go Fraincis!

Relatively few Syrians in Jordan risk one-way trip home Only 3,106 Syrian refugees out of 717,000 registered with the UN in Jordan have returned to Syria since Assad fell, as crossing the border is a one-way trip ...

Relatively few Syrians in Jordan risk one-way trip home syriadirect.org/relatively-f...

The last days of Bashar al-Assad The FT pieces together the final movements of Syria’s former president and first family

Informative piece on Assad’s last days in power and what became of several other regime insiders, by FT’s Raya Jalabi, Sarah Dadouch, Chloe Cornish, and Malaika Kanaaneh Tapper.

www.ft.com/content/747f... @financialtimes.com

Emperor Franz Josef II on the wall of a Dublin cafe, with flies

I should have seen this coming when i went into a different Dublin cafe from usual a while ago and was greeted with his picture on the wall

Sitcom idea: The Office, but about when a young go-getter mujahed arrives to take over a dilapidated Baathist ministry full of work-shy, scheming nepotism hires.

Not sure who’s on this platform yet, and it’s very poor for Arabic content so far. But if you’re looking for Syria info, these are all great:

@akmckeever.bsky.social
@syrianzo.bsky.social
@abujamajem.com
@ajaltamimi.bsky.social
@jeromed.bsky.social

And many others. Feel free to add in comments!