I just read a review about the Jewish community in Ireland. Has anyone considered what Judaeo-Irish would look like?...
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Sally Caves
sallycaves
Mar 7, 2004 4:02 am
According to a Berkeley linguistics colleague of mine, Semitic and Celtic already share at least seventeen grammatical elements... much talked of and debated...
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Costentin Cornomorus
elemtilas
Mar 7, 2004 4:46 am
... Good lord! Gaelic is bad enough written in Roman letters! ;) Padraic. ===== ççoç peparcti Çaratostariyyas: his hanaras ossta? icom acâ, ...
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John Cowan
johnwcowan
Mar 7, 2004 4:56 am
... That's why it should rightly be written in Cyrillic. -- John Cowan <jcowan@...> http://www.reutershealth.com...
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Keith Gaughan
KeithGaughan
Mar 16, 2004 4:53 pm
... Or, if you're feeling really sick, with 'j' to mark palatalisation... -- Keith Gaughan -- WEB: talideon.com -- BLOG: hereticmessiah.weblogs.com This email...
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Thomas Leigh
tursachan2000
Mar 23, 2004 10:33 pm
Greetings -- I was just wondering if anyone else on the list was planning to attend the NAACLT conference in Montreal at the end of May? Or is Montral within...
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Padraic Brown
elemtilas
Mar 24, 2004 12:31 am
... I don't know what it is, but if it's at the end of May, I might be able to make it up that way. Padraic. ===== Itenem me per enfiblès tramper l' ystrada...
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Thomas Leigh
tursachan2000
Mar 24, 2004 2:21 am
The North American Association of Celtic Language Teachers annual conference; I'm just attending as a member, not giving a paper. The dates are May 27-29 (the...
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Padraic Brown
elemtilas
Mar 24, 2004 6:36 pm
... Yeah. A wee meetup might be just the thing! As far as I know, school is done by mid May, so no worries there. Taking off time from work is no big thing. ...
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Thomas Leigh
tursachan2000
Mar 24, 2004 10:26 pm
... Cool! :-) ... You read my mind! ;-)...
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Sally Caves
sallycaves
Mar 25, 2004 2:24 am
You know, Thomas and Padraic, I've never been to Montreal? It would be fun to go. I think graduation is a week earlier. Any trains from Rochester?? ... ...
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Thomas Leigh
tursachan2000
Mar 25, 2004 1:51 pm
... Sally! You know if you were to join us, you'd make me the happiest man in the world? I'd ply you with ale and make you speak Teonaht to me! ;-) ... Nothing...
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Padraic Brown
elemtilas
Mar 26, 2004 1:15 am
... WOOHOO! ... There is at least one train going up into Montreal from NYC; and I know Amtrak goes through Rochester (or at least used to), so you'd have to ...
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Anton Sherwood
brontopithecus
Mar 26, 2004 6:08 am
"Montreal, anyone?" My dad rang me from there last night, does that count? (He's at a physics teachers' conference.) -- Anton Sherwood, http://www.ogre.nu/...
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Sally Caves
sallycaves
Apr 1, 2004 12:14 am
Sorry to take so long to reply. Big demanding weekend, lots of class preparation and papers to read. I'd like a recap of what's going on in Montreal (a...
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Chris Gruber
pacaria
Apr 2, 2004 8:58 pm
The best I can do is call one of the Montréalers that THomas and I know in common. Alas. ... Chris Gruber You recommend Macs to your friends, and Intel...
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Thomas Leigh
tursachan2000
Apr 3, 2004 2:46 pm
Hi Sally! My turn to apologize for taking so long to reply to you... I've been flat out the last couple of days trying to finish my first-ever article for...
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Ph. D.
utegrepublic
Apr 23, 2004 1:26 am
Are there any resources, either hardcopy or on the web, about what Irish was like say 500 years ago? --Ph. D....
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Padraic Brown
elemtilas
Apr 23, 2004 2:29 am
... I think that would be Middle Irish - Old Irish would be more like 1500 years ago and more. I can't point to anything in MI, but this is certainly the right...
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Thomas Leigh
tursachan2000
Apr 23, 2004 11:03 am
Greetings, Just thought I'd let folks know that we will be performing at the Southern Maryland Celtic Festival (http://www.cssm.org/festival2.htm) tomorrow, if...
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Chris Gruber
pacaria
Apr 23, 2004 5:56 pm
Damn your oily hide, Leigh! We've confirmed it: I'll be in Boston with my peeps on July 25. Hopefully we can make it to the Yankees-Sox game that day. ... ...
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Pavel Iosad
pavel_iosad
Apr 23, 2004 7:42 pm
Hello, ... The funniest thing is that 500 years ago is in fact Modern Irish, or properly Classic Modern Irish. Try looking up something on 'bardic poetry' and...
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Joe
civil_gov
Apr 23, 2004 9:26 pm
... Well, a lot like English, then. AFAIK- 500-1100=Old English 1100-1500=Middle English 1500-now=Modern English I think Irish had more subdivisions, though....
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Pavel Iosad
pavel_iosad
Apr 24, 2004 5:12 am
Hello, ... [...] ... Not really. ... Yes. -500 Primitive Irish 500-550 (apocope) Archaic Irish 550-700 (syncope) Early Old Irish 700-900 Classic Old Irish ...
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Thomas Leigh
tursachan2000
Apr 30, 2004 1:23 pm
... Interesting; that's a bit different from the (rough) chronology we were given at university in Scotland, which ran thus: -600 Archaic Gaelic 600-900 Old...
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Thomas Leigh
tursachan2000
Apr 30, 2004 1:32 pm
Darn it, I'm determined to meet somebody somewhere! Here are a few upcoming events I'm participating in that hopefully some of you could be at too! May 8:...
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John Cowan
johnwcowan
Apr 30, 2004 1:35 pm
... Crap, just a stone's throw from my country house -- but I don't normally go there on short weekends, and I'm meeting Michael Everson (name drop, name drop)...
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Sally Caves
sallycaves
Apr 30, 2004 4:33 pm
Hallo, fy ffrindiau! (Vyko, hal fronan!) ... From: "Thomas Leigh" <thomas@...> ... Me too! ... Ah, can't do. Wish I had John's exciting...
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Keith
carrot@...
May 1, 2004 12:38 am
... 'S ann mar a tha e, co dhiudh! :-) Trying to link up Modern SG with Mod. Ir. always feels like trying to see round a corner, if you see what I mean,...
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Melroch 'Aestan
melroch
May 1, 2004 2:56 pm
... Surely you can persuade Michael to go to a Celebration of Celts? :) /BP 8^) -- B.Philip Jonsson mailto:melrochX@... (delete X) ...
