Monday, August 11, 2008

Gaelic Translation

There are few places left in Ireland that actually speak "Irish", otherwise known as Gaelic. Obviously it is a very old language; just from trying to pick up a few phrases before I leave it is very difficult to learn how to pronounce the words. The title of my blog is Irish for "I'm never ever drinking again!". The phonetics of this phrase are "knee ohl-hee mey gu brawkh u-reeshch", which is not what it looks like at all. 
I figured this would be appropriate for a blog about Ireland seeing that I'm sure that I will probably say this (hopefully at most) once while I am there.  As we all have heard the Irish are known for drinking a lot, but according to what I've read this can be attributed to the Irish's cultural belief in self-deprecation (Lonely Planet), they find it better character to be extremely humble than to be openly confident about what you do. I'm excited to experience the dynamics of the culture, especially regarding women. 

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

hi Roni, just wanted to let you know I have your blog on my favorites, and I will be checking on it to see how you are doing while in Ireland.

love you

dad :)