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Brian Halligan @halligan.bsky.social · 7m

Tá mé ag foghlaim Gaeilge agus go dtí le déanaí cheap me go raibh seanfhocail, “Sean words”. Sean, mar shampla “a regular Joe” i mbéarla. 😄 #speirgorm

I’m learning Irish and until recently I thought seanfhocail (proverbs) was “Sean words”. Sean, like “a regular Joe” in English. (It’s not.)

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Darach Ó Séaghdha @darach.bsky.social · 6m

The fact that I was able to tell from this photo that Enoch got himself a new pair of glasses (I assume the Mammy bought them for him) is damning proof that we hear too much about this fellow and his loud family.

Enoch! Enoch!
Who's there?
They/Them
They/Them who?
They/Them pronouns have been used in singular contexts in the English language for centuries. It's got nothing to do with religion, you'll even find "them" used to refer to a single person in the King James Bible.

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Darach Ó Séaghdha @darach.bsky.social · 1h

Imagine investing in an English kite company in the 1970s and then these ads just drop...

Scarred For Life @scarredforlife.bsky.social · 6h

Final Destination had nothing on British public information films.

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Scarred For Life @scarredforlife.bsky.social · 6h

Final Destination had nothing on British public information films.

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C🎃lette Carr🎃ll @carrcole.bsky.social · 1h

The Duckworth Lewis Method explained: 2 blokes from Ireland who wrote 2 great albums about cricket. 👍

"Flatten The Hay" is about as gorgeous as it gets.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 3h

Pardon me if I delay celebrating this vile cretin losing until those poor Sandy Hook families he victimized for cheap publicity see all of the cash. I don't trust him for a second.
abcnews.go.com/Politics/sup...

Supreme Court rejects Alex Jones' appeal of $1.4 billion Sandy Hook judgment

The Supreme Court rejected an appeal from Alex Jones, who has been ordered to pay $1.4 billion in damages to the families of victims of the 2012 Sandy Hook shooting.

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Saoirse Ní Chiaragáin @miseryvulture.bsky.social · Dec 17

Now, more than ever, you have to be a weird little pervert who makes art of questionable quality. You need to be driven crazy by the flesh. Because, as we all learned from Cronenberg's The Fly, the computers are not made crazy by the flesh. They can't do it like us.

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Darach Ó Séaghdha @darach.bsky.social · 1h

Also: English isn't actually the *official* language of the United Kingdom, is it? So isn't this like passing a law saying a work visa applicant needs to explain the Duckworth Lewis method or list the ingredients of Marmite or something?

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Darach Ó Séaghdha @darach.bsky.social · 1h

Goodnight Mairéad

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Cathal Malone @cathalmalone.bsky.social · 4h

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · May 6

A good parable for the unpredictability of fame is that this Simpsons joke about John Travolta working as a barman in Itchy & Scratchy Land aired 12 days before Pulp Fiction was released.

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Nialler9 @nialler9.com · 2h

RIP D’Angelo, the great nialler9.com/dangelo-the-...

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Dudley of Yesterzine @yesterzine.bsky.social · 4h

I have “The No Nicks Club” and “Talking about Kate behind her back”. Both of which I can explain but it’s funnier if I don’t.

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Darach Ó Séaghdha @darach.bsky.social · 4h

Only if you are prepared to disregard the possibility of falsely pure, aka the "false positive" as we say in the scientific community.

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Denise Murray/Donnacha Ní Mhuireadhaigh @mousketeer.bsky.social · 4h

Whell you see tha third Landsdowne ,m'lud Petty, wed one of the Fox-Strangways gals and they bred... having of course been bred themselves by Shelbourne who tupped a Fitzpatrick wench and they were all rather important and needed roads and prisons and the like named for 'em.
Anglo-Irish top Posh

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Louise @selkies.bsky.social · 5h

"truly pure" is a bit redundant here, no?

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Niall McAuley @handle.invalid · 5h

It's only possible for half the replies to be pure pedantry when the number of replies is even.

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C🎃lette Carr🎃ll @carrcole.bsky.social · 5h

Bloody hell … (searches name) … and, again, f*ck cancer.

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Darach Ó Séaghdha @darach.bsky.social · 5h

Fucking hell. D'Angelo died?

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Chris Tierney @readyuser.one · 5h

It's that half the replies are pure pedantry, not that all the replies are half pedantry.

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Darach Ó Séaghdha @darach.bsky.social · 5h

He. Could. Have. Been. Clearer.

Darach Ó Séaghdha @darach.bsky.social · 5h

Actually John, my post was actually a "skeet". This is a reply.

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🌎🐎John Hyphen🎮🤠 @johnhyphen.bsky.social · 5h

Darach your post is a quote, not a reply, actually.

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Joe Griffin @thejoegriffin.bsky.social · 5h

The thing about language is that the best way to learn is to live in another country. So this is creating a chicken-and-egg type problem. A real unforced error.

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Darach Ó Séaghdha @darach.bsky.social · 5h

David Sedaris wrote in one of his stories that at some point in the last twenty years, American tourists stopped saying "your English is very good".

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