http://www.irishcentral.com/news/irishv ... olice.html

I thought this was an interesting article. I can't even imagine working in a field like he does.

I read that on Facebook the other day. Interesting!

I've been known to use Irish with telemarketers and aggressive panhandlers.

Redwolf

How is it the 'deadest of dead languages'? and



, so was he switching dialects or just using school Irish?

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sure, use Googletranslate and remove spaces and even the Irish speakers won't understand



cacamas...



he doesn't know what a dead language is... He doesn't show much respect for a language that "saved his life"...

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Did you see that other story about the Israeli army who were trying to understand the communications coming out from a UN observation post near their border occupied by a contingent of Irish soldiers. I think they sent one of their own to Ireland on an Irish-language course and very soon they were listening in without any problem. The Irish did eventually find out what was going on.

well, if the Irish soldiers were native speakers, having an Irish course wouldn't help, since Gaeltacht Irish isn't taught anywhere

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Aha! While I was at Oideas Gael a decade or so ago, Liam showed this Israeli guy into our class for a quick look around. He'd been studying Irish for three weeks, so he said, and was already as fluent as anyone in the school. Good accent too. Maybe he was the Mossad operative in question.


This guy had studied "Learning Irish".

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