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Tráthnóna maith daoibh, a chairde idirnáisiúnta. Cad é an craic inniu? Aon daoine anseo atá Gaeilge acu anois?

how are backpackers treated in japan?
My last name is Cavanagh, will I be abducted and hurt?

my pupils get that large without drugs

oops meant ireland the fuck

You'll be fine.

Curry chip roll, lads.

How come Irish speakers don't do more to revive Irish? Even in the Gaeltacht they speak English to each other.

What can I personally do?

Engender people like you to make a bigger and more coordinate effort. It's pretty obvious gaeilgeoirí are mostly just moaners who will roll over when met with resistance.

Not an argument

I only know 3 people who can speak it to a good standard.

See, youse aren't even good at consolidating. You'd think after making all that effort to learn Irish you'd make an effort to grow it's power base. You should have a much wider network of contacts.

i've never tried any drugs.

I'm sure there are groups of speakers elsewhere, but I'm not in the area to find any. And I hate Internet friendships.

>I hate
>me me me
Your mé féinism is a shirking of your responsibility to the language's revival. Your kind has continuously failed to do what it must and it will be your fault when the language dies.

Not him but it's already dead.

>>I hate
>>me me me
You're asking me what I can do.
I'm not the sole representative of the language. All I can say is that I learned it, and Irish has one more speaker because of it.

If you want someone who has more experience with the subject, ask sabhsaí when he gets here. More proud of the language than me, anyhow.

Learn the distinction between a dead language and an endangered language you mongoloid.

>All I can say is that I learned it, and Irish has one more speaker because of it.
And? It means nothing if you only do the bare minimum with it, why bother learn it in the first place? Irish having one extra but essentially unmotivated/isolated speaker is equivalent to not having an extra speaker at all. I wasn't asking what you can do, you can plainly do a lot more than you're actually willing to do. I was simply outlining that you're a typical case of a gaeilgeoir failing to live up to his responsibility to the language, no offence.

We've had the Celtic twilight, so this must be the witching hour, right?

Irish is a dead language.

It isn't possible to have a complete conversation in Irish without using supplementry modern English, and unless you seek out other boring fuckers who are so determined to speak it aswell you'll never ever use it, bar from virtue signalling IRL and acting all high and mighty on Sup Forums ofc. You are like priests speaking Latin to each other.

Anyway it's your time, as long as you are enjoying wasting it.

If you're so inclined about saving the language, then why don't you do something about it?
You see what's wrong and you're giving out to me because I'm what? Not forming social circles based around Irish?

I just learnt the language - and because I did I have a responsibility to uphold?
With all due respect; gowan and fuck yourself.

>his responsibility to the language

Don't try to blame me for your failures my friend, I never said anything about my inclinations. And yes of course you have a responsibility. Why would you bother to learn Irish without taking on the inherent responsibility that comes with that?

the irish are the niggers of western europe

>Irish is a dead language

All of our services are offered through Irish.
We've an Irish TV station. You can have your trial (if you were to have one) through Irish.

How on earth is it dead?

>why bother learning irish

Why is Irish a compulsory subject?

>without using supplementry modern English
Do you know how language contact works? Languages have always supplemented each other, it's more obvious in the case of Irish because English vocab dominates so many domains of modern discourse but it's a normal phenomenon. A dead language is one without a native speaking community, which Irish still has no matter how boring or insufferable you think they are.

>for your failures

I'm done talking to you.

The Irish slave trade began when James II sold 30,000 Irish prisoners as slaves to the New World. His Proclamation of 1625 required Irish political prisoners be sent overseas and sold to English settlers in the West Indies. By the mid 1600s, the Irish were the main slaves sold to Antigua and Montserrat. At that time, 70% of the total population of Montserrat were Irish slaves.

Ireland quickly became the biggest source of human livestock for English merchants. The majority of the early slaves to the New World were actually white.

From 1641 to 1652, over 500,000 Irish were killed by the English and another 300,000 were sold as slaves. Ireland’s population fell from about 1,500,000 to 600,000 in one single decade. Families were ripped apart as the British did not allow Irish dads to take their wives and children with them across the Atlantic. This led to a helpless population of homeless women and children. Britain’s solution was to auction them off as well.

During the 1650s, over 100,000 Irish children between the ages of 10 and 14 were taken from their parents and sold as slaves in the West Indies, Virginia and New England. In this decade, 52,000 Irish (mostly women and children) were sold to Barbados and Virginia. Another 30,000 Irish men and women were also transported and sold to the highest bidder. In 1656, Cromwell ordered that 2000 Irish children be taken to Jamaica and sold as slaves to English settlers.

Many people today will avoid calling the Irish slaves what they truly were: Slaves. They’ll come up with terms like “Indentured Servants” to describe what occurred to the Irish. However, in most cases from the 17th and 18th centuries, Irish slaves were nothing more than human cattle.

Dunno, you'll have to ask the doe. You can't learn Irish just from being forced to do it in school though, it clearly takes a very deliberate effort on the part of the student to actually learn Irish properly and not just learn enough for the exam. An A1 in the Leaving doesn't imply a high degree of competence in any leaving cert language, or even any subject (A1 students in maths regularly flounder in basic college maths)

African slaves were very expensive during the late 1600s (50 Sterling). Irish slaves came cheap (no more than 5 Sterling). If a planter whipped or branded or beat an Irish slave to death, it was never a crime. A death was a monetary setback, but far cheaper than killing a more expensive African. The English masters quickly began breeding the Irish women for both their own personal pleasure and for greater profit. Children of slaves were themselves slaves, which increased the size of the master’s free workforce. Even if an Irish woman somehow obtained her freedom, her kids would remain slaves of her master. Thus, Irish moms, even with this new found emancipation, would seldom abandon their kids and would remain in servitude.

In time, the English thought of a better way to use these women (in many cases, girls as young as 12) to increase their market share: The settlers began to breed Irish women and girls with African men to produce slaves with a distinct complexion. These new “mulatto” slaves brought a higher price than Irish livestock and, likewise, enabled the settlers to save money rather than purchase new African slaves. This practice of interbreeding Irish females with African men went on for several decades and was so widespread that, in 1681, legislation was passed “forbidding the practice of mating Irish slave women to African slave men for the purpose of producing slaves for sale.” In short, it was stopped only because it interfered with the profits of a large slave transport company.

Because no one actually reads the Irish before the English on an official form and anyone looking at TG4 most likely have captions on.

I'd be surprised if there is a judge in the country capable of sitting through such a trial.
Wasn't there a case like this throw out not long ago, the person appealed his conviction due to not being allowed an Irish trial, it was thrown out due to him being perfectly capable of understanding English.

Irish is dead in the sense that no one uses it exclusively, I'd hazard a guess that the most fluent irish speakers alive today barley use it 5% of the time, and dead in the sense that it is completely usless in modern Ireland.

10 geriatrics living without running water on the Aran islands isn't much of a community.

are you not ashamed of being irish

i mean look at your pathetic history

i'd be ashamed

>England continued to ship tens of thousands of Irish slaves for more than a century. Records state that, after the 1798 Irish Rebellion, thousands of Irish slaves were sold to both America and Australia. There were horrible abuses of both African and Irish captives. One British ship even dumped 1,302 slaves into the Atlantic Ocean so that the crew would have plenty of food to eat.

>Wasn't there a case like this throw out not long ago, the person appealed his conviction due to not being allowed an Irish trial, it was thrown out due to him being perfectly capable of understanding English.
You mean the case of him wanting an exclusively Irish speaking jury? It was decided against because translators were considered sufficient. I don't think the constitution or official languages act would allow a court to deny a trial through Irish.

You're honestly missing out, it's like going through life not having sex just because the government tells you not to. I mean don't do it every day or even every month but you have to do it at least once. Definitely try it if you vacation to a normal country. You got 75ish years on this earth, do whatever the fuck you want.

What is social security/Dole/NEET life in Éire like?

Instead of being dismissive of these things, you should reflect and recognise your failures and seek to improve going forward. It is better than attempting comforting but unproductive deniability. A sense of civic and group responsibility is often a good thing to have.

ireland offers nothing to the world

I don't remember the exact details feel free to correct me though.

The couldn't accept it AFAIR, How could they allow it if there isn't a judge in the country capable of sitting over it.
Let alone barristers, jury, temp etc.

If there was such a trial you can be sure the majority of the Jury would be known to each other and the defendant by virtue of the fact that the Irish speaking community is so small.

It will never be allowed, and I'd imagine that the use of translators being deemed sufficient has more to do with avoiding constitutional debates than it has to do with anything else.

>most cucked country in existence calls other nations pathetic

way to go, Ali!

Can't wait until we destroy Sweden in the Euros.

>The practice of interbreeding Irish females with African men went on for several decades and was so widespread that, in 1681, legislation was passed “forbidding the practice of mating Irish slave women to African slave men for the purpose of producing slaves for sale.” In short, it was stopped only because it interfered with the profits of a large slave transport company.

thanks. I'll go to Colorado or Netherland at first.

>Irish is a dead language
irishexaminer.com/ireland/gaeilge-to-become-a-full-working-language-of-the-european-union-386308.html
No it isn't you fucking faggot stop being delusional. Go back to Sup Forums.

>SWEDEN
>YES

Don't acknowledge that weak bait you stupid fucks.
The most annoying thing about the spam is that there is always a tard willing to bite.

And they recognise knackers as a distinct ethnic group
Top kek lad, please post more so I can laugh at you.

BTW.
Don't browse Sup Forums Irish is dead, enjoy wasting your time whilst I do something productive and beneficial to society.

>How could they allow it if there isn't a judge in the country capable of sitting over it.
You think there aren't judges who have Irish?

I'm assuming you're the leaving cert user and you're pretty mad about failing Irish, it's understandable not everyone is suited to being capable of learning everything. Although Irish is still mandatory, tests will go on and it isn't going anywhere other than forwards instead of backwards that you so hope for.
BTW
I work speaking english and Irish on a daily basis in my job while you speak about languages that are """"dead"""" just because you are incapable of speaking it or dislike it.
It goes without saying but kill yourself. You couldn't do something productive and beneficial to society if you had a gun to your head.

>whilst I do something productive and beneficial to society.
>said while posting on a Cambodian Soccer site

On a daily basis?

Cén sórt post atá agatsa?

I'll do whatever I want you.

has anyone seen master, that old cunt?

he owes me a game of insurgency

who the fuck is master, your dom?

>he's this mad
Lol the truth hurts, and yeah I'd be surprised if there are any judges capable of giving their name and address in Irish, let alone sitting through a trial.

BTW I didn't sit Irish so there goes that theory, I am Irish, got an exemption because like you asked earlier, why bother learning Irish? I could have attempted to in 2yr but my parents realised that it would have been totally pointless to learn a dead language that wouldn't benefit me in any way, shape or form IRL.

a norn lad

you need to be an illustrious eire personality to know of him

Meanwhile our own government plans to amend the Official Languages Act to remove any stipulation that they have to provide materials in both languages, so that they can exclusively publish in English. LOL.

But if you don't learn irish user, how are you suppose to act morally superior to random strangers on a Taiwanese knitting pamphlet ?

>eire personality faggotry

hahaha

They aren't random strangers m8, they went to the same schools and colleges, have a Skype group, are on each others Facebook pages and all post in reddits echo chambers together.

Where is he???

Two of them even dated actually.

And to think even with the combined efforts of the shit posting mob I have yet to lose an argument or debate on an /eire/ thread.

How do you lads feel about the UN trying to force you to legalise abortion?

Bhuel, toisc go bhfuil daoine ann gan an teanga anseo is dóigh liom go bheadh na daoine a bhfuil an teanga acu a bheith ag caint le chéile.

An féidir linn a thaispeáint dóibh go bhfuilimid in ann í a úsáid? Tá Gaeilge againn, cén fáth nach labhraíonn muid í?

Toisc go bhfuil an Ghaeilge teanga marbh desu

Mar níl gaeilge againn a chara

Guys it's a Haitian living in Sweden, the same guy who scatposts and flooded Sup Forums with Gore a while ago

B'fhéidir gur dtosóinn an comhrá. Conas a bhí bhur gcuid laethanta?

Tá a fhios agam go bhfuil roinnt daoine.

It is cozy. Not as good as the Nordic though. If you're NEET too long the social will make you take a course or try to make you get a slave labor job though. Better than UK, worse than the Nordics.

This thread serves to illustrate very well just how defunct and obsolete Irish as a language actually is.

This is a language specific board after all, and Irish speakers can't even find other Irish speakers to converse with in an Irish specific thread.
It is an indictment.

I admire your perseverance even if you did seem a bit angry and upset earlier. Fair play, it must be difficult.

>Tá a fhios agam go bhfuil roinnt daoine.
Cén fáth a chreideann tú? Níl ach beirt nó triúir ar /éire/ a bhfuil Gaeilge acu agus níl siad anseo.

I do my 5 minutes on duplingo. Some day I'll be able to hold a conversation in it....

Sounds like it's pretty much on ours and german level.

It's true, Irish is pretty much dead among the lower uneducated classes. It can only survive as the language of the elite and unfortunately we already have French for that.

>slave labor job
You are in for a shock when mammy kicks you out of the house in your mid thirties.

Beirt nó triúr acu a bhfuil daoine go leor. Mar a deir an seanfhocal, tús maith leath na hoibre.

ahpne ni olaso fere jqur asedha?

Cén fáth nach bhfuil teanga léi féin ag an Ostair?

We have our own variation of german.

>It can only survive as the language of the elite and unfortunately we already have French for that.
>French
wat

Every country had least has a 'variation' of some language but it's not really the same as having your own language tbqh.

Tá m'Árdteist ar siúl lads

We value our dialects pretty high though, unlike germany in which school children are trained to abandon their dialects and speak standard german

Go n-éirí leat, a chara. Cathain atá do scrúdú Gaeilge?

they cant do shit

So nearly every language is dead because most people have at least 2? Would you call French dead? Spanish? German? I've spoken to people from Norway and Finland with great Irish. Stop being such a negative cunt.

When I was NEET I got a letter telling to me to go to a meeting for a job in a slaughter house. I thought it was going to be a Jobbridge thing but they were honestly expecting people to work full time for them for literally nothing.

In Ireland, English is seen as too common, Irish as too rural. Hence for the elite, focused around a small area of Dublin around Trinity College, the Freemason Lodge and the Government buildings, national museums and libraries the main language you will hear spoken is French

Why don't you just meme it up like the Balkans, Scandinavia or Scotland and pretend your dialect is a different language?

No, none of those languages are dead, Irish is though.

Those's imaginary scandis you mentioned sound quite boring desu

>didn't do irish for at least the junior
Yep, retard detected. How the fuck are you going to drop Irish for being too hard?

actually the so called german dialects are basically different languages. swiss and austrians can understand krauts because we're taught hochdeutsch in school but krauts cant understand us.

I've seen this pasta before and I call bullshit.

Can the UN really do much of anything? All the conspiracy theories used to talk them up as some NWO but they're so shit irl.

no they cant do anything.

Mar tá muid ''ro cúl" le haghaidh Gaelige.

From what I read, you lot signed up to whatever the fuck their "human rights" rules are. So either you comply or they make you comply, I assume.

>The ruling said Ireland needed to take measures to ensure that healthcare providers are able to supply full information on safe abortion services “without fearing being subjected to criminal sanctions”, the committee said.
>Colm O’Gorman, the executive director of Amnesty International Ireland, said: “The Irish government must act promptly. Ireland’s constitution is no excuse – it must be changed to allow the reforms required by this ruling.”