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50 Things to do in your 50s's avatar

I love this reflection, there's so much to mine regarding the relationship to emotions and feelings. I love 'Ta ocras an domhain orm' (can't find fadas on my phone). The hunger of the world is upon me. Couldn't get any more emphatic really 🌍😁

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Briana Ní Loingsigh's avatar

I’m glad you enjoyed it! And I agree! A lot of Irish ways to phrase our emotions and feelings do really capture how those things feel much better than the often more simple ways to say them in English.

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feareile's avatar

Not just emotions: illnesses and names. Maybe the recognition that we are all subject to external influences and bound up in systems outside our control doesn't chime easily with speakers of imperial languages, such as English or Spanish, where the assumption of heroic individual autonomy is part of the Zeitgeist. (Long press on phone keys usually reveals a series of options with diacritics.)

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Molly's avatar

This is great and SO true and says so much about the Irish language.

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Briana Ní Loingsigh's avatar

Absolutely! It’s impossible not to learn Irish and come away having learned about yourself and life by nature of the language’s structure. :)

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Victoria Bolduc's avatar

So enjoy all that you are sharing here, Briana! I look forward to your posts and notes!

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Briana Ní Loingsigh's avatar

Go raibh maith agat - thank you!

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Jen Swan's avatar

Aontaím leat. Is fiú agus is feidir. Grma chun an meabhrúchán

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Briana Ní Loingsigh's avatar

Go raibh maith agat 🤍

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Bill Magee's avatar

Iontach reflection Briana, GRMA

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Briana Ní Loingsigh's avatar

Go raibh maith agat, Bill! 🤍

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colton woodruff's avatar

God Bless Arthur Guinness.

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50 Things to do in your 50s's avatar

P. S is that ogham for what word?

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Steph Wilkerson's avatar

I think it's "brón"

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50 Things to do in your 50s's avatar

Ah, of course, thanks

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Briana Ní Loingsigh's avatar

Correct - it is brón. :)

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