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Giving Commands in Irish, from the Cheerful ‘Be Happy’ to the Brusque ‘Shut Your Gob!’ Posted by on Feb 12, 2018

(le Róislín) Continuing with our recent ‘happy’ theme (nasc thios), the above graphic illustrates one way of saying “Be happy” in Irish.  As you may have noticed, it’s the plural form.  No special reason for the plural — it’s just that the singular form (“bí“) would have made for pretty minimal eyebrows (malaí fíorbheaga). The…

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Keep Calm and … Fan Socair agus … (in Irish) Posted by on Jan 18, 2014

(le Róislín) How many activities should we do while we keep calm?  Currently there are about 538,000,000 Google hits for the English phrase “Keep calm and …” (not limited to the “carry on” ending). In Irish, I’ve seen various translations for the “keep calm” part, but I think “fan socair” is best.  Cé mhéad amas Google…

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