(Well, there is SUPPOSED to be an accent mark over the "a", but working off a PC, I don't know how to get accent marks...anyone to help? For right now, I'll...
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ladyrayne
ladyrayne@...
Jan 31, 2000 4:42 pm
I could cheat and cut and paste what she said in Irish, but I won't ;>) I'm Lady Rayne to most all of my on-line friends. I'm sure if I looked hard enough...
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ShirlRaven@...
Jan 31, 2000 6:30 pm
Hi! I'm Katharine. I speak no Gaelic (yet), but I do speak fairly good German, which I understand helps some. I have a good deal of Irish and Scottish in my...
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ShirlRaven@...
Jan 31, 2000 6:30 pm
Hi! I'm Katharine. I speak no Gaelic (yet), but I do speak fairly good German, which I understand helps some. I have a good deal of Irish and Scottish in my...
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she has too many names
akittennamedmoe@...
Jan 31, 2000 7:27 pm
... little word-sound agreement thing...you'll understand later...promise!) Okay, so I'm still working out the kinks of how you'd spell names...! (this is one...
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she has too many names
akittennamedmoe@...
Jan 31, 2000 7:57 pm
Good thing your name was already Irish...made the translation that much easier!!! *LOL* Ahhh...Ich spreche kline Deutsch, aber nicht so gut...:) You have some...
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Scott Kreidler
smk39@...
Feb 1, 2000 3:09 am
In addition, many Windows installations put in "Character Map", which usually lives in Programs-Accessories, and can give you every character you'd need. ...
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Scott Kreidler
smk39@...
Feb 1, 2000 1:17 am
(which means "hello!") Here I join as male #2 :) I'm Scott, and I've been interested in Ireland and things Irish for several years; I think I'm 1/8 or 1/16...
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she has too many names
akittennamedmoe@...
Feb 1, 2000 1:06 pm
Well, I do hope you get a lot out of this mailing-list, too...have you checked out the links I have there, currently? I think they are pretty decent, if you...
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akittennamedmoe@...
Feb 1, 2000 4:09 pm
Dai dhuit! I have a question(s) for everyone, and I would like responses/suggestions/ideas/. How does everyone want to go about this? I would like to start...
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ladyrayne
ladyrayne@...
Feb 1, 2000 5:18 pm
Dia duit! did I do that right? <g> I personally like the e-mail lessons idea. I don't have much time online (been home sick these past two days) and though I...
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Yngve Hauge
onealien@...
Feb 1, 2000 6:41 pm
... I would like to correct something here, so that people won't get confused about it later. Deirdre and I had a little talk earlier, and I pointed out that...
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ShirlRaven@...
Feb 1, 2000 11:02 pm
In a message dated 02/01/2000 1:42:19 PM Eastern Standard Time, ladyrayne@... writes: << I personally like the e-mail lessons idea. I don't have much...
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ladyrayne
ladyrayne@...
Feb 2, 2000 7:00 am
listening to tapes in the car, and now I'm all confused because the pronounciation is nothing like the spelling. I knew this, but still. <g> that's why I'm...
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she has too many names
akittennamedmoe@...
Feb 2, 2000 1:37 pm
I knew the day I left my notes at home, I would need them.... "learning/studying" = foghlaim As for the spelling versus pronounciation, that all boils down to ...
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she has too many names
akittennamedmoe@...
Feb 2, 2000 1:42 pm
"Dia duit" or "Dia dhuit" is correct! :) (can anyone tell me the difference between the "h" and not? I have yet to find a plausible answer, but I've seen both...
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akittennamedmoe@...
Feb 2, 2000 1:47 pm
(even though this is aimed at Americans, I am sure those with a working knowledge of English can just as well apply...those who have other resources are...
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akittennamedmoe@...
Feb 2, 2000 1:48 pm
"Learning Irish" from The Irish People http://inac.org/IrishPeople/gaelic/Lesson2.html Irish Lesson 2 You are now ready to make a classic entry into the Irish...
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akittennamedmoe@...
Feb 2, 2000 2:05 pm
Okay, now....you have some definite tools at your disposal. What I want to hear/read are different phrases (variations of what was given in Lesson 2) you can...
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ShirlRaven@...
Feb 2, 2000 3:46 pm
Question: What is the correct pronunciation of te (hot)? The pronunciation offered in the lesson is te, but nowhere in the pronunciation guide does it say...
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akittennamedmoe@...
Feb 3, 2000 2:06 pm
Wow...look at that...22 members in just 5 days... Cead Mile Fáilite! A thousand welcomes to one and all! (I wonder if I'm forgetting that accented "e" in...
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seano@...
Feb 3, 2000 2:29 pm
Hi All, I head about this group from a friend of mine on sixdegrees and she asked me to have alook at it. I hope that I will be able to give some help, advice...
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seano@...
Feb 3, 2000 6:55 pm
Hi Guys, The word "te" meaning "hot" is pronounced as it is written! The "e" sound is the same as the "e" sound in the word "e-lephant" Those of you...
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akittennamedmoe@...
Feb 3, 2000 8:31 pm
Here they are....in the same order I've put them on the LearningIrish onlist website: http://inac.org/IrishPeople/gaelic/ My main resource for learning Irish,...
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akittennamedmoe@...
Feb 6, 2000 11:58 pm
Good to see more members! Fáilte! Okay...so??? How has everyone been doing with those lessons, lately??? We haven't been posting, I see and I was getting a...
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akittennamedmoe@...
Feb 10, 2000 1:19 pm
Welcome new members!!! (then again, we're a new group so you "old members" aren't THAT old!) Going through the www.ireland.com site at the moment...looking...
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akittennamedmoe@...
Feb 10, 2000 1:21 pm
Irish Lesson 3 One of the characteristics of modern printed Irish is the frequency of the letter "h" after consonants in words. Generally the "h" is not...
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akittennamedmoe@...
Feb 10, 2000 1:23 pm
Irish Lesson 4 We began on the verb "tá" in Lesson 2, and we will continue with it now. Here is the entire present tense: Tá mé (TAW* may*), I am Tá tú...
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seano@...
Feb 10, 2000 3:04 pm
Dia Dhaoibh a chairde, I was looking around to see what kind of Dictionaries you can get. Of course, I'm over here and the majority of you guys are over there ...
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Chovhani
melanie.boxall@...
Feb 10, 2000 4:06 pm
Been lurking a while and you guys really seem to know your stuff. I have a query regarding the festival of Imbolg (Feb 2nd). Most sources translate this as "In...
