
Saturday, February 24, 2007
Eire Go Brách!

Friday, February 23, 2007
Cool Pic

Tuesday, February 13, 2007
Om Tare Tutare Ture Soha
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Monday, February 05, 2007
Endangered Languages
Just finished Mark Abley's Spoken Here, the brilliant book on minority languages mentioned below. He is an amazing writer. (His comparison of English to Wal-mart truly made me shudder.) I have always believed that language not only reflects a people's way of thinking, but also informs it. Even a cursory study of Old and Middle Irish will call to mind James Joyce. It's not surprising that such a fluid and complex tongue would produce a race of people who revel in words and play with language - their own or their conqueror's - because their thought patterns spin and spiral. Here are two stunning verbs from the Boro language: gabkhron - to be afraid of witnessing an adventure. And onsra - to love for the last time. And here is a wonderful statement from Abley when speaking of the struggle to keep endangered languages alive. Their struggle, it should be clear by now, is part of a worldwide battle to prevent language annihilation. But even this larger battle - I ask forgiveness for the metaphor - may be part of a wider war, perhaps the central one of our time: the fight to sustain diversity on a planet where globalizing, assimilating, and eradicating occur on a massive scale.
Sunday, February 04, 2007
Sunny Days, Frosty Nights

1) laptop computer
2) digital camera.
There will be no stopping me.
Thursday, February 01, 2007
Lá Fhéile Bríd - Imbolc

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