Curios aplenty

See also: http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=poltroon and https://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=etymology%20poltrune&gws_rd=ssl

Because é can also mean it. See: http://www.teanglann.ie/en/fgb/%C3%A9

For one day, Ireland has become US Republicans’ greatest fear.

Not that anyone will notice, but this was the proposed wording for a referendum to be held later this year, not a law that was to come into immediate effect. Nonetheless, a new wording of the referendum amendment has been proposed to reduce possible ambiguity.

If you don’t think that the English language is ridiculous remember that we’ve turned spelling it into a contest

Don’t forget this wonderful weekly Catalan spelling (& other language skills) show http://www.ccma.cat/tv3/alacarta/programa/El-gran-gran-dictat---capitol-17/video/4922591/#

That hi-res pdf link above isn't working, but I've managed to track down the original (by Jason Riggle), which is now at version 12.12 and can be grabbed from here.

This is a bigger deal than this post lets on. The British came into Ireland and did everything they could to erase the Irish culture. They renamed everything on maps to get rid of the colloquial names of landmarks and roads and things that had been used for centuries. They also prevented the Irish language’s usage in education and government which has reduced its usage to under 80,000 people who use it outside of the educational system today (after a cultural revival).

Had this convo with my dad the other day. I think we should always protect our culture at all cost.

This doesn’t even cover it, though… The British also tore down Irish structures and replaced them all with British ones… Even now, all those Irish towns and Irish pubs that we think of as iconic are what the British built.  They also outlawed Irish music and dance, and ordered that all the Irish harps be destroyed. 

Stop moaning about it on fucking Tumblr and learn/teach Irish then! Whining about it on this website isn’t going to change what my ancestors did.

I have this problem on my mac, but only if I use Apple's DVD player to play movie DVDs. If you use VLC (free to download) this is NEVER an issue. If you are on a Mac use VLC and find the setting, (probably in System Preferences/Disks and DVD/) and set it to NOT launch DVD player whenever a DVD is put in the drive. The Region restriction problem vanishes. But I suppose this all depends on whether you have a Mac. Oh well...  Good Luck.

THIS IS SO HELPFUL

Americans, please take note, otherwise the next time you say the phrase ‘British accent’, I will knee you in the gums.

 do note the irish government do not officially recognize the term “british isles”

"The Irish government"? I think you can include in that any southern Irish person you'll ever meet. I believe it was poet Seamus Heaney who suggested the term some literary academics now use "The Atlantic Archipelago". Though in officialdom "these islands" is often used.

This summarises much of the 15,000 words of my thesis on Godard, Deleuze & Ranciere. "His eyes wept."