Not Dead After All

Some thoughts on the ever-widening Atlantic ocean : you'll see what I mean.

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[yellowlabrador]

I live in West cork and Irish is stone dead. Apart form Irish language schools in the Gealtacht you will never hear Irish spoken, not even to curse. As a person with a Welsh background, I find it quite chocking. I tried to learn some Irish and students who'd spent 12 years having Irish classes couldn't help me. They learn all their exam answers by rote with no understanding and absolutely hate it. An excample of teaching gone wrong.

[tenneral]

@yellowlabrador A familiar story. When I was young in Lochaber, all my contemporaries were Gaelic speakers and a lot of their parents knew no English at all. All that has disappeared but out on the islands the language is holding its own very well.

[nilbud]

@yellowlabrador I had Irish blasted at me for 12 years and my French is better. They just killed it stone dead through breathtakingly poor teaching. 12 years of wasted time. Mind you with 40 in a class you're basically just throwing the educational dice.

[PFWoody488]

It is one of the great ironies of history that a country that was founded as a secular state, largely as a response to the damage caused to Europe by the endless wars over religion, is now far more religious than it's European cousins.

Maybe America is being intentionally ironic.

They are also a country founded on "freedom" and "equality" while being amongst the last to abandon slavery.

And that took the bloodiest war in their history to accomplish.

A strange bunch.

[Widgetas]

Nice to see you back on the tubes.

[Tridhos]

@tenneral I would have agreed with you about his campaigns in Ireland they indeed seemed a blot on his record until I read Cromwell an Honourable Enemy by Tom Reilly and that changed my opinion completely. Also worth reading is The Tyrannicide Brief by Geoffrey Robertson a book about John Cooke the barrister who prosecuted Charles Ist, Cooke was appointed law officer in Ireland and many of his judgements favoured the poor not the rich so the landed gentry were glad to see the back of him.

[steffenml]

@piprod01 Let me know if you need help with that :)

[steffenml]

@tenneral I am, though not on this channel :) I moved to Malta, so I have a channel dedicated to "walk and talk" videos about Malta in general, my job, how I'm holding up here, etc.

[tenneral]

@steffenml Thank you - and I hope you too are busy making videos.

[tenneral]

@amulware You could be right - I am no expert on President Wilson and his approach to the conflict.

[tenneral]

@prodigyat9 How true: I see plenty of spotty teenagers pulling faces and wasting time on YT, clearly with nothing to say that might be of interest to anyone else.

[tenneral]

@Tridhos Fair enough. And you are indeed right about his welcome to Jewish immigrants. On the other hand his campaigns in Ireland were marked by a cruelty that is hard to imagine. Obviously he was a complex character: perhaps he too was pushed along by extremists.