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    Learning a language for 12 years and not being fluent........

  • #2
    Thinking we are the bees knees and finding out we are not better than other nations

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    • #3
      Is this what Irishness is thread, Or run the Irish down thread. Just checking before I post....
      It's nice to be important, but it is more important to be nice.

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      • #4
        Originally posted by nansson View Post
        Learning a language for 12 years and not being fluent........
        i can only speak for myself in the time and place of my education......

        to speak irish then....you would have been considered a weirdo..

        to look back as an old person living in the uk.....english would have served us better.......

        to take an overall view......the money spent on the irish language.....could have been better spent in those days.....

        and people could have still learnt it, if they wished...

        to have it forced down childrens throats....on the end of a bamboo cane....which it was to different degrees around the country.....was barbaric......
        Here Rex!!!...Here Rex!!!.....Wuff!!!....... Wuff!!!

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        • #5
          I had a schoolmaster who was a fluent Irish speaker. He told us one day that if he had the power he would make the use of Irish illegal. That surprised us until he said that if that was done nearly everyone would be taking classes and speaking it at every opportunity -- because we're Irish and don't take kindly to authority telling us what we should do and not do.

          I think he was probably right.
          'Never look down on a person unless you're helping them up'.
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          • #6
            Originally posted by Rashers View Post
            I had a schoolmaster who was a fluent Irish speaker. He told us one day that if he had the power he would make the use of Irish illegal. That surprised us until he said that if that was done nearly everyone would be taking classes and speaking it at every opportunity -- because we're Irish and don't take kindly to authority telling us what we should do and not do.

            I think he was probably right.
            a good point rashers...i would have no problem with that...

            language is a means of communicating.....how people wish to communicate....should be their own choice......

            but as i said.......the no choice bit was in my opinion.......WRONG..
            Here Rex!!!...Here Rex!!!.....Wuff!!!....... Wuff!!!

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            • #7
              Originally posted by Reggie View Post
              Is this what Irishness is thread, Or run the Irish down thread. Just checking before I post....
              ....
              this is a speak the truth thread..........is it....
              Here Rex!!!...Here Rex!!!.....Wuff!!!....... Wuff!!!

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              • #8
                Originally posted by nansson View Post
                Learning a language for 12 years and not being fluent........
                Got it wrong, I thought being Irish did not have to include speaking irish, So if I dont speak Irish does that not make me Irish - confused here

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                • #9
                  Irishness Is..........

                  Phoning Joe Duffy instead of the Gardai.......

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                  • #10
                    Irish is.....wettin the tae.....gettin sumtin outa the press.....sleepin it out .....gettin sent up the yard....yer mammy calling you in to kill you and you comin..hearing of someone thro whispers who as the big C......giving the bowzer a kick up the bum to shut up barkng and thinking the little rossie up the street neeeds a good kick up the arse....being irish is sometimes needing a transator lol

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                    • #11
                      Irishness Is.......

                      Saying ' You're not drinkin'...ya must be on antibiotics'.....

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                      • #12
                        Being born in the combe or the rotunda

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                        • #13
                          The panic attack when you forget to turn the immersion off

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                          • #14
                            Good one! Gettin sent to the shops for a pound of broken biscuits and asking for not too sny broken ones lol

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                            • #15
                              Wallpaper on yer schoolbooks

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