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 Post subject: droch-mhachnamh
PostPosted: Wed 22 Jan 2025 8:48 pm 
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This is from Seanmóin is 60:
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Níl focal le teacht as a bhéal ach focal a chuirfidh droch‑smaoineamh éigin, nú droch-mhachtnamh éigin, isteach i gcroí gach duine a bhíonn ag éisteacht leis


How are droch-smaoineamh and droch-mhachnamh differentiated from each other? Both mean "bad thought"? Would you translate one of them by any other phrase?


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 Post subject: Re: droch-mhachnamh
PostPosted: Fri 24 Jan 2025 12:07 pm 
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djwebb2021 wrote:
This is from Seanmóin is 60:
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Níl focal le teacht as a bhéal ach focal a chuirfidh droch‑smaoineamh éigin, nú droch-mhachtnamh éigin, isteach i gcroí gach duine a bhíonn ag éisteacht leis


How are droch-smaoineamh and droch-mhachnamh differentiated from each other? Both mean "bad thought"? Would you translate one of them by any other phrase?


I don't know.
But I think, I could imagine, that machnamh is a deeper way of thinking.
So: consideration, reflection, pondering


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 Post subject: Re: droch-mhachnamh
PostPosted: Thu 30 Jan 2025 9:56 pm 
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djwebb2021 wrote:
This is from Seanmóin is 60:
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Níl focal le teacht as a bhéal ach focal a chuirfidh droch‑smaoineamh éigin, nú droch-mhachtnamh éigin, isteach i gcroí gach duine a bhíonn ag éisteacht leis


How are droch-smaoineamh and droch-mhachnamh differentiated from each other? Both mean "bad thought"? Would you translate one of them by any other phrase?


I think droch-smaoineamh can have a “bad idea” meaning, something you can act on.
Machtnamh is just thinking, or possibly remembering a memory.


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 Post subject: Re: droch-mhachnamh
PostPosted: Sat 01 Feb 2025 10:51 am 
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Thank you, Bríd. That makes sense. I'll keep smaoineamh for "idea".


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