Tag Archives: Tuaisceartach
Aistriúchán den Chomhrá le Nola, An Srónbheannach (A Translation of the Irish Dialogue with Nola)–Cuid 2/2 Posted by róislín on Dec 7, 2015
(le Róislín) As mentioned in the most recent blog post (nasc thíos), this is a continuation of the translation of my imaginary conversation, in Irish, with Nola, an srónbheannach bán tuaisceartach deireanach a bhí ina cónaí sa leathsféar thiar. Ise an ceann baineann deireanach sa leathsféar thiar agus an ceann deireanach dena fospeiceas sa leathsféar…
Aistriúchán den Chomhrá le Nola, An Srónbheannach (A Translation of the Irish Dialogue with Nola)–Cuid 1/2 Posted by róislín on Dec 3, 2015
(le Róislín) Usually I write these blogs bilingually, but the imaginary conversation with Nola, the 4th-last Northern White Rhinoceros in the world, took on a life of its own in Irish. So, for the benefit of newcomers to the language, I’ll do an interlinear translation here, with some vocabulary notes and pronunciation interspersed. This blog…
If You’re Going to Give a Belly Rub to a Rhinoceros, Here’s How to Say It in Irish (and some other useful vocabulary) Posted by róislín on Nov 28, 2015
(le Róislín) We recently posted an imaginary conversation in Irish with Nola (ca. 1974-2015), a Northern White Rhinoceros (Srón-bheannach Bán Tuais-ceartach) whose recent death leaves only three remaining members of her subspecies alive. The nasc (link) to this article is thíos (below). Since that blog was almost entirely in Irish, we’ll look at a few…