Today Scotland votes on independence. As a Welsh neighbour who lived in Scotland for half a decade, I’d love to be voting, but it’s not for me to decide. It’s still a good day to read some Scottish Gaelic poetry, though.…
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Scotland: “If only hitting on the right judgment/were instinctive to humankind!”
Tagged with: An Tuil/The Flood, Book of the Dean of Lismore, Gaelic, German, Katherine Whyte Grant, Meg Bateman, Poetry, Ronald Black, Scotland, Scottish Referendum, Translation
Posted in books, international, literature, poetry, Scotland Referendum, translation
Posted in books, international, literature, poetry, Scotland Referendum, translation
keeping the language alive: polari, manx, cornish
When I was a teenager in Cardiff, the family next door spoke Welsh, but most people around spoke English. When I went to babysit, the boys were in shock: how could this other person speak their home language too? They…
Tagged with: Cornish, Endangered Languages Project, English, Gaelic, Manx, Mick Paynter, Morrissey, Ned Maddrell, Polari, Welsh
Posted in international, translation, words
Posted in international, translation, words
found in translation 