A father in Ireland goes to watch a football match with his buddy while his daughter has to study Irish, or Gaelic – the ancient language of Ireland. After over-celebrating his club’s victory, he awakes in the morning and finds he only speaks Irish, and that he doesn’t even understand English. His buddy is aghast at this situation, believing his friend to have become possessed, but his daughter manages to translate his friend’s assertion that this change may have been caused by a blow to the head during the revelries of the past evening’s celebrations. They decide to hit him again, and use a frying pan for the job. Disastrous results ensue. [Fuente]
Categoría: Lenguas célticas
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Lost in translation – Wales
A council put up a Welsh language road sign reading “I am out of the office at the moment” when it should have said “No entry for heavy goods vehicles”.
Swansea council contacted its in-house translation service when designing the bilingual sign. The seeds of confusion were sown when officials received an automated email response in Welsh from an absent translator, saying: “I am not in the office at the moment. Please send any work to be translated.”
Unaware of its real meaning, officials had it printed on the sign. The council took down the sign after Welsh speakers spotted the mistake.
Yu Ming Is Ainm Dom
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‘It’s like a secret language’: School that teaches in Manx
http://www.bbc.com/news/education-21236111
30 January 2013
In 2009 the Isle of Man’s native Manx language was declared “officially extinct” by Unesco.
But the pupils at primary school Bunscoill Ghaelgagh in St John’s are proof that the language is alive and well – at least for them, if not for their parents.
It is the only school in the world where children are taught in Manx.