👉Gaeilge/Irish-learning thread👈 #gaeilge #agfoghlaim
I've seen a few comments lately about the "caol le caol, leathan le leathan" rule for spelling. (Slender w/ slender, broad w/ broad). Some people have trouble remembering which vowels are slender, and when the rule applies. In English, most people say the vowels in alphabetical order; AEIOU.
But it's worth breaking it up into slender (IE) and broad (AOU) to get your head around Irish spelling.
I used to just think of Irish websites being .ie to help me remember.

radharc álainn ó Rinn Mhuintir Bháire 🌈
@AimsirTG4

Carn Uí Néid Bá na hEornan

Schull Absolutely burying the lede here but..

Sliabh Feá / Cuaille / Cairlinn

Ravensdale is a lovely, depressing, reminder of what forests in Ireland could look like or..

Early on in the lockdown, a whatsapp group turned into an board game night over Hangouts, and it's the best craic. Still going strong thanks to one of the lads having an apparently endless collection of games, so I made this dice tower for him.
Cedar tower and holly dice. I've only seen pictures and videos of these yokes, so I made a prototype out of foamboard. It looks sloppy because the first tray was taking up too much table space so I chopped it, and then had find an internal ramp arrangement that worked..

New Santoku. Alder and smoked oak handle.
Slightly disappointed the blade isn't a proper chisel grind. That wasn't clear when I bought it.
The handle was supposed to be a more even octagon but I fucked up, so pivoted hard to this very elongated shape I've seen occasionally. Pretty happy with the clean lines, but the new thin shape did reveal a small void in the alder that would've been hidden if I'd got the handle right first time. It at least ended up more ergonomic than this

I wasn't good at Irish in school and at one point I genuinely believed, and don't bother fucking @'ing me on this, that you couldn't really learn it unless you grew up in a home where it was the dominant language. So I felt like I'd just missed out..

https://twitter.com/Motherfocloir/status/1286643531659055105

..a bit like wishing I was taller or better-looking or whatever. I just got dealt the non-Irish speaking hand🤷‍♂️ To keep this from becoming a THREAD, I'll just say I eventually copped on. But the point is, I always liked the idea of being able to speak it.

I think there's a -tiny- bit of sense to it. Greek myths tend to be visually quite grounded. A bull-headed man. A lot of boats. A big fight.
Irish myths, eg, are so much more fluid that putting them on screen would be either impossible or just look so stupid that it undercuts it.

https://twitter.com/DommiFox/status/1285675327394652160

The description of Cúchullainns ríastrad would look unintentionally hilarious if you put it on screen, but it's great storytelling. The strength is in the words. Turning into pictures takes all the power out of it (imho)

(tep)

I wasn't planning on uploading these until I had a couple of other versions finished but, in light of RTÉs carry-on this evening, here's some high-res Antifaschistische Aktion logos as Gaeilge drive.google.com/drive/u/4/fold… updated with black flag options, for those of you with an anarchic streak..

I did it 🙂

https://twitter.com/hellociaran/status/1265570722518368256

Storm Ophelia blew down a cherry tree so when the council came to chop it up, I took it. Turned out it had been rotting from the inside for a while, but there's a few decent bits. Steps: Plane one face, chop off the trousers, mark out 4 pieces.

The prototyping continues. This time; butterknives. Trying different shapes and woods. So now I have four butter knives and ..*counts* ... one butter.

lon dubh / blackbird druideanna / starlings

I thought I'd get some painting done today, but by the time I'd finished tidying my tip of a room, there was only an hour left until dinner time, so it's a quick one.
I was thinking about those people setting gorse fires, and you wonder what goes on in some peoples heads..

Lá 2/7 de mo shaol gan focal ná duine. @YerMouse
a d'ainmnigh mé, agus b'fhéidir nach ainmneoidh mé éinne. Is dóigh liom go bhfuil sibh go léir á dhéanamh 😄 ach, má tá suim agat ann, déan é. Lá 3/7 de mo shaol gan focal ná duine.

Lá 1/7 de mo shaol gan focal ná duine. @YerMouse a d'ainmnigh mé, ainmním.. @CloudPersona má tá suim ann. Making the most of the dry weather by doing bits of woodwork.
What I'm making is kind of irrelevant.
I've been waking up in a knot every morning with anxiety about [this whole thing]. I find the days where I can make something tend to pass much more calmly.

If you ever browse instagram using Chrome, I've made a thing that quickly shows you the original, bigger (sometimes) image that was originally uploaded. step 1: Bookmark this page you're on now.
step 2: right-click the bookmark and click "edit"
step 3: rename it, Mine is "bIG" 'cause it's the word "big" but with the ig of inst..
anyway
step 4: copy and paste the code in the next tweet into the URL field

pointy sticky

neighbour's got a saxophone No sarcasm, I genuinely love the sound of people learning musical instruments. Every honk, screech and bum note. Learning a musical instrument is a great thing to do and there's no way to get mediocre without going through a long phase of being absolutely melojin.
❤️🎼