A fairy is "zana" I think (pronounced just as you'd imagine). I have no idea what hedge is. But most fairies hang out in undergrowth no? Wouldn't fairy be enough? You don't hear about many urban fairies
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Would a bilingual two year old have learned the word for hedge anyway? That seems very niche, even for Ireland.
Here's a pendant of ad hoc's suggestion that looks good to me (though I have never understood Irish fairy culture)Last edited by ursus arctos; 09-07-2018, 20:05.
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Originally posted by ad hoc View PostI'm not sure if I have ever really seen a hedge in Romania. Certainly never heard the term Gard viu. If that really is a hedge then it would probably be something like zana din gard viu
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Originally posted by ursus arctos View PostWould a bilingual two year old have learned the word for hedge anyway? That seems very niche, even for Ireland.
Here's a pendant of ad hoc's suggestion that looks good to me (though I have never understood Irish fairy culture)
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Originally posted by The Awesome Berbaslug!!! View Posthold on...... what? What do they have between their fields, or around their houses?
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Hah, Scott is dead sound. Himself and the missus are doing post doctoral research in biomedical devices, and Galway is a major centre for that sort of carry on. My cul de sac is like sesame street, and overrun with swarms of children. Whereas I just want to be left alone in my bin.
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This is a really good long read about how Orbán has turned Hungary into a "soft fascist" autocracy https://www.vox.com/policy-and-polit...arianism-trump
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god that's grim.
on a brighter note, I tried out your translation on Andi, and she nearly fell over. I had broken one of the iron rules of her existence. Romanian was the language spoken by her mam. her sister, her nana, and her au pair. She's been to romania for a holiday since, but at the time she may well have thought that romanian was something that only women spoke. For someone else to say something in romanian shook the foundations of her little world. her mam thought it was hilarious.
Expect a European Arrest Warrant for conspiring to confuse a toddler to arrive any day now. We take that sort of thing very seriously over here.
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Originally posted by The Awesome Berbaslug!!! View Postgod that's grim.
on a brighter note, I tried out your translation on Andi, and she nearly fell over. I had broken one of the iron rules of her existence. Romanian was the language spoken by her mam. her sister, her nana, and her au pair. She's been to romania for a holiday since, but at the time she may well have thought that romanian was something that only women spoke. For someone else to say something in romanian shook the foundations of her little world. her mam thought it was hilarious.
Expect a European Arrest Warrant for conspiring to confuse a toddler to arrive any day now. We take that sort of thing very seriously over here.
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Weekend FT had an extraordinary story that does not seem to have got wider media traction
The former Macedonian PM Gruevski was due to start a sentence for corruption but has fled the country in Hungarian diplomatic car and and is seeking asylum in Budapest
The US has called for Gruevski to be returned
No comments have been made by the Hungarian foreign affairs office per the FT
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Ignatieff interview in the Globe and Mail https://www.theglobeandmail.com/worl...ry-a-deadline/
So, what’s happening here is important, and this little university, without overdramatizing, has been at the centre, because if you don’t have free universities you don’t actually have a democracy. … Academic freedom is not a luxury for professors, it’s a key indicator of what kind of democracy you have and whether you have one at all. What’s happening here is: “Wake up, take a look, pay attention." It’s simple.
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