I started out on the fediverse arooooound...I wanna say 2017/18 mebbe? My big start in social media was MySpace. Before that, I had a LiveJournal (which I miss mightily with all my heart). My very first computer was a Gateway PC, back when they shipped them to you in those awesome cow spot pattern boxes. I am trying to de-google my life.
I'm #ADHD and suffer from #dysthymia. I'm currently unmedicated. I can be damned moody at times, so there's your warning.
Religiously/spiritually speaking, I'm complicated. That will be a long post, when I get around to writing it. My general rule is: I have my thing. It's not everybody's thing, and that's cool. Not everybody's thing is my thing, and that's cool. Just don't be a wanker towards those whose thing ain't your thing. OM 🕉
I'm 57 years old and have come to the conclusion that we never truly appreciate the decades we grew up in until we hit middle age.
I'm single and childless, hence my user tag: TheLastOfHisName.
#Irish does not have a specific word for #genderfluid, but it is still possible to discuss it. You just have to say a gender (inscne) that is fluid (luaineach).
For example, "Sam is genderfluid" can be translated two ways:
• "Tá inscne luaineach ag Sam" (llit. "Sam has a fluid gender")
• "Is luaineach é inscne na Sam" (lit. "Sam's gender is fluid")
"A genderfluid person" is "Duine na/le inscne luaineach") (lit. "Person of/with fluid gender")
23 Oct 1643: Mícheál Ó Cléirigh dates the preface #otd for his Foclóir [Dictionary] of the #Irish language #Gaeilge printed on the friars’ press at #Leuven dedicated to Boetius Egan #Franciscan bishop of #Elphin (eebo)
To a Swedish person, the function of diacritics is obvious:
å is not a
ä is not a
ö is not o
So I get the importance of fadas in #irish, and the "tutors" in Irish out there, Darach O'Séaghdha springs to mind, are helpful by pointing out that
Éire is not eire
cáca is not caca
Still it's difficult to remember, and to fully understand the effect on pronunciation.
Here's another nice pair of words, learnt from yesterday's #Seafóid game:
ólann - drinking
olann - wool
18 Nov 1629: d. Flaithrí Ó Maolchonaire (Florentius Conrius) at #Madrid, founder of the #Franciscan#Irish college in #Leuven#otd theologian, translator into #Gaeilge#Irish, politician, archbishop of Tuam.
Online lecture on Irish folklore (Léacht Almqvist 2023):
The 2023 Bo Almqvist Memorial Lecture will be presented by Dr Éilís Ní Dhuibhne Almqvist of The Folklore of Ireland Society on Friday 24 November at 7:30 pm GMT (=2:30 pm EST) on Zoom. The lecture's title is 'A Scholar and a Storyteller: Bo Almqvist and Mícheál Ó Gaoithín', and the speaker will be introduced by Barbara Hillers of Indiana University.