Minor Pleasures (2 Viewers)

[therealjohnny]

Despite crippling laziness and over-fondness of bed I've said yes to an offer to join a band that sounds like it could be great crack.

 

[тхеодоре кацзынски]

People spelling 'crack' the way it's meant to be spelt.

 

[Lili Marlene]

People spelling 'crack' the way it's meant to be spelt.

I'm always unsure about this one, is there an official place to check it?

 

[тхеодоре кацзынски]

I'm always unsure about this one, is there an official place to check it?

As a child I always understood it as being 'crack', 'craic' only came later.

Who will set us free of the bogus Irishness of craic?

 

[Lili Marlene]

As a child I always understood it as being 'crack', 'craic' only came later.

Who will set us free of the bogus Irishness of craic?

Craic - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

if wiki is to be believed it seems to have quite a complicated history. Maybe it's just best to drop the word altogether

 

[nooleen]

fuck

everything is a lie

 

[ann post]

Are we back to people getting annoyed just because the Irish language didn't stop evolving and adding the vernacular. That's one of my favorite things to get annoyed about.

Its like a national ethical issue around the word craic / crack yet english can do all this and nobody really gives an equal shit

Duck face, lolcat, and permadeath: new words added to OxfordDictionaries.com | OxfordWords blog

 

[Lili Marlene]

Heh, well the English were the colonisers not the colonised, i guess their priorities are a little different about these things.

 

[therealjohnny]

It's made up word. In much the same way as Ulster Scots is a made up language. There is an agenda behind both .

 

[nooleen]

an ádeanda, if you bhfuil

 

[ann post]

It's made up word. In much the same way as Ulster Scots is a made up language. There is an agenda behind both .

How else do you make up words?

Fish.

Graphic.

Envelope.

All made up words, with an agenda.

 

[therealjohnny]

for fucks sake. why bother

 

[Lili Marlene]

Someone was telling me recently about the Irish public's resistance to using Greenwich mean-time when it was introduced because that kind of precisely measured time was seen as a tool of the British Empire to wield control over the Irish population. Which it was.

source: a conversation I had not on the internet.

 

[ann post]

All this discussion boils down to is people getting riled about pedantary. Its the best thing in the world to wind people up further about.

 

[тхеодоре кацзынски]

Someone was telling me recently about the Irish public's resistance to using Greenwich mean-time when it was introduced because that kind of precisely measured time was seen as a tool of the British Empire to wield control over the Irish population. Which it was.

source: a conversation I had not on the internet.

We should return to Dublin time, that seven minutes (or whatever it is) can't really matter all that much.

 

[тхеодоре кацзынски]

All this discussion boils down to is people getting riled about pedantary. Its the best thing in the world to wind people up further about.

Your man in the Times is riled, the rest of us are learning.

 

[Lili Marlene]

We should return to Dublin time, that seven minutes (or whatever it is) can't really matter all that much.

i get the impression the larger issue was an adherence to a a particular type of strict time-keeping. Speculating here, but I guess telling a farmer who has never had a clock in his life to turn up at 2PM for an appointment (like a court case) would have been an issue.

 

[тхеодоре кацзынски]

i get the impression the larger issue was an adherence to a a particular type of strict time-keeping. Speculating here, but I guess telling a farmer who has never had a clock in his life to turn up at 2PM for an appointment (like a court case) would have been an issue.

Wouldn't the church bells have served that purpose though?
"Oh, there's one bell, I better be heading off to court presently".
I imagine life was less stressed when very few people carried a watch or owned a clock.

 

[GO]

Life was so much simpler when we were all on Hammer time

 

[Unicron]

i get the impression the larger issue was an adherence to a a particular type of strict time-keeping. Speculating here, but I guess telling a farmer who has never had a clock in his life to turn up at 2PM for an appointment (like a court case) would have been an issue.

In the US anyway wasn't the imposition of a standard time related to the spread of the railways so that everyone would know when to show up to catch a train? You'd imagine something similar occurred here.

I believe that In London there used to be people who's job it was to keep the right time. They'd get it from Greenwich and then head off charging people to tell them the right time.