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Words change meaning - another example.

@tartapplesauce reblogged my (long) post about Dublin coddle, which mentioned a weird version called "New World Coddle" using chorizo and squash.

TBH, my Mind Palate suggests it would taste quite good, but it's so far from traditional or even well-tweaked-traditional coddle that it's not coddle any more, and should have a different name entirely, possibly in Latin American Spanish.

Also TBH I've already amended the recipe thrice in my head, (1) chipotle powder not smoked paprika; (2) finish with a scatter of toasted pine-nuts; (3) restore the chickpeas mentioned in the Method to the Ingredients where they'd been forgotten.

I've already admitted to breaking the Dublin coddle rules by browning things, so all bets are off. :->

(BTW, this wasn't ours; @dduane's spine and hip have been rather a trial this past couple of days, so we just took things easy and let the Ibuprofen do its thing.)

Re. coffee mornings, what about various tea-breads, fruit sodas, barm brack etc.? Those could be made either trad or tweaked-trad, and though I'm not sure how they could be made "dainty" like petits-fours and so on, I bet it could be done.

*****

As for the changed-meaning word (getting there eventually) it's "notions" and @tartapplesauce added this link.

"To have notions" in Ireland is to think highly of yourself, often without justification - though if the justification is, er, justified, "begrudgery" will often follow. I've encountered "begrudgery" before, but this version of "notions" is a new one.

I have, however, experienced the Northern Ireland - or maybe just my family - version, which is "don't put yourself forward". This is a bad notion to have when thinking about author profile and book publicity and as DD can confirm, it took me far too long to shake it off.

On the flip-side, having notions can mean thinking outside the box, being imaginative, boldly going where no-one has gone before...

Um, got a bit carried away there... Right to the NYT bestseller list, in fact. Twice. ;->

*****

Neither of those are MY usual meaning.

Whenever I use "I have a notion", either said or written in a post, it's either "I have a thought" with the thinking-intensity dialled down a few notches, or "I have a vague memory of", otherwise known as IIRC or AFAIK.

And the other OTHER meaning of "notions", the one I first thought of (maybe with notions of food already in mind) was this:

That book was published in 1890, and the title, translated from Victorian English, is something like "Tips and Tricks" or, in more modern English, "Household Hacks".

There's nothing derogatory about it.

*****

DD and I have both posted about Mrs de Salis in the past; all her books are what's usually referred to as "slim volumes". Here are six of them alongside Mrs Beeton's doorstopper:

I inherited a copy of "Savouries a la Mode" from Mum, who inherited it from Granny, and we've made several things from it, all of which worked - though far and away the best so far are the Parmesan Biscuits, which are...

Well, "more-ish" is a good start, though it doesn't hint at the underlying desire to get in there with both hands...

Here:

All of Mrs de Salis's books are Public Domain, and while we intend eventually to have a full collection of the Slim Volumes, they're also available as PDFs here.

I have a notion that anyone reading this Tumblr will like them... ;->

[eretzyisrael]

by Brendan O'Neill

So now we know what it takes to become a state: the murder of Jews. Rape, kill and kidnap Jews and seven months later, the leaders of Ireland, Spain and Norway will recognise your statehood. That’s the lesson of today’s coordinated spectacle of virtue-signalling in Dublin, Madrid and Oslo: pogroms work. The butchery of civilians gets results. Fascism has its rewards. This is ‘diplomacy’ at its most dangerous.

Of course, Irish taoiseach Simon Harris, Spanish PM Pedro Sánchez and Norwegian PM Jonas Gahr Støre are presenting their pious recognition of Palestine as a stab for peace. This is about helping to ‘create a peaceful future’, said Harris. They’re either delusional or they’re engaging in doublespeak. For the true impact of their imperious intervention will be to exacerbate hostilities. Hamas will feel emboldened. It now knows that a wonderful gift awaits it if it keeps battering Israel: a state of its own. In dangling this dream before Hamas, the three PMs have all but green-lighted its terrorism.

Rarely has virtue-signalling felt so reckless. The PMs are so keen to broadcast their correct-think to the world that they appear not to have given one thought to what the consequences might be of three European nations butting in to a bloody war. Their blindness to everything but their own righteousness was best summed up in the figure of Simon Harris. There he was on the steps of Government Buildings in Dublin sermonising about how this is ‘the right thing to do’ – translation: ‘aren’t I wonderful?’ – without so much as a flicker of concern for the global impact of rewarding an act of apocalyptic violence.

That really is what is happening here. Harris and the others were careful to condemn Hamas’s 7 October pogrom, of course. Harris called it a ‘barbaric massacre’. And yet the fact is that today’s announcements, this vain granting of legitimacy to a Palestinian state, would not be happening had it not been for 7 October. Indeed, Harris expressly linked his recognition of Palestine with the ‘appalling’ and ‘unconscionable’ war in Gaza. Yes, a war started by Hamas. On 7 October. With its carnival of anti-Semitic barbarism, the likes of which the world had not seen since the Holocaust. And there you have it. Want a state? Start a war. Kill some Jews. Job done.

[lafcadiosadventures]

Madame Putiphar Groupread. Book Two, Chapter XXXI

“We must howl with the wolves, he who bleats among them shall be their prey!”

(tr. here  by @sainteverge )

Gustave Doré's Les loups et les brebis.

Sit yourself with a nice cup/glass of something and let’s ponder urban/rural, intra/extra european tensions in the 19th c european novel together. nerdface emoji.

(I love you Borel but this chapter has tested my patience. Why do you make the blorboes move at a glaciar pace in times of crisis)

After Deborah’s announcement and Patrick’s declaration of ideal paternity and family life, the couple dines together. Patrick asks Deborah if she likes Paris specifically before letting her know that they must LEAVE the city FAST. That gives Borel the chance to explore through Deborah yet another central theme of the Romantic novel, or the 19th c novel as a whole, Rural vs Urban life tensions. Borel as always, adds his own personal twist to it. Taking into account how essentialist 19th c French-surely not exclusively- literature is, how Romantic movements are about going back to some kind of National essence, how you cannot leaf through one of these books without reading about so called spanish/italian personality traits, occasionally reaching ad absurdum levels like in Dumas when he has Dantès claim that southern europeans are more vulnerable to poison than northern europeans, Balzac and his ambitious meridionals (in his defense, he at least IS a meridional himself), his stabby-because-catholic corsicans, and don’t get me started on Gautier’s Voyage en Espagne. Positive or negative, there is in this literary word, no escaping regional stereotyping.  

What Borel does when addressing the question, does Deborah miss Ireland, she states that she doesn’t, not Ireland specifically. What she misses is the countryside, what she loathes is city life. And, she affirms, she would loathe it as much in Dublin as in Paris. Modern Urban life is to her a sickness that seems to afflict all of Europe equally. This definitely stands out from other portrayals of Paris as a modern Babylon we’ve seen from other authors... Balzac would never. Paris is hell, but to him it is also Paris. as Diderot would say, in a fit of excessive nationalistic intoxication Paris is the brain of France, and France is the Brain of the World. yes. that was something he said unironically) But Borel does not care about what makes Paris specific here... Paris is part of something bigger, and not actually something good. He once again seems to anticipate much later philosophical ideas like Marc Augé’s non-places. Read this and tell me it doesn’t make you think of our post modern present, with our increasingly minuscule flats, the impossibility of looking out and not seeing more flats in some of the biggest metropolis in the world, etc:

 “Living in cities is narrowing; these boxes, these cages where as prisoners we wither away, compress and cinch the soul like a corset: our spirit confines itself to two ceilings and four walls; our gaze, which cannot break through, hits the surface and falls back on us; we take the habit of indulging ourselves, of being satisfied with ourselves, we diminish, we shrivel away. The perpetual sight of men’s work renders us petty and bourgeois like them: we forget the grand spectacles of nature, we forget the universe, we forget humanity, we forget everything, aside from ourselves, and whatever tastes we seek to quench: all creation comes down to a few pieces of furniture, a few chairs, a few tables, a few beds, a few pieces of fabric or silk, which we grow enamoured with, which we’re attached to like the oyster to its stone, over which we vegetate and crawl like lichen”

(translation by sainteverge)

I’d like to link here an excerpt of Champavert: The Werewolf as well. This earlier text seeks to be specifically Parisian, and more encompassing  than Debby’s experience. (noted passages in a similar vein: Balzac's Galleries of the Palais-Royale descriptionin Lost Illusions (the city-as-spectacle, everything and everyone for sale) and his snapshots of social inequality in Père Goriot)

“Le monde, c’est un théâtre: des affiches à grosses lettres, à titres emphatiques, hameçonnent la foule qui se lève aussitôt, se lave, peigne ses favoris, met son jabot et son habit dominical, fait ses frisures, endosse sa robe d’indienne, et, parapluie à la main, la voilà qui part; leste, joyeuse, désireuse, elle arrive, elle paie, car la foule paie toujours, chacun se loge à sa guise, ou plutôt suivant le cens qu’il a payé, dans le vaste amphithéâtre, l’aristocratie se verrouille dans ses cabanons grillés, la canaille reste à la merci. La toile est levée, les oreilles sont ouvertes et les cous tendus, la foule écoute, car la foule écoute toujours; l’illusion pour elle est complète, c’est de la réalité; elle est identifiée, elle rit, elle pleure, elle prend en haine, en amour, hurle, siffle, applaudit; en vain, quelquefois, sent-elle qu’on l’abuse et s’arme-t-elle de sa lorgnette, elle est myope, rien ne peut détruire son illusion et sa foi qu’exploite si galamment les comédiens”

Both of these passages share a grim diagnosis. Capitalist Modernity seems to be here a degenerative illness. Deborah’s focuses more on the domestic, most of her life means staying locked in,  completely lonely, but she has observed how the city tends to isolate, to make people focus only on their selves and their whims, which can only be satisfied by buying furniture, clothes, a thirst for possessions that transforms Humans into Oysters....

This to me is the highlight of the chapter.

After this speech our friends agree they must flee, and quick. Patrick and Deborah are ready to be open to each other. They tell each other what the reader already knows, they are now both equally aware of their danger, and of the wrongs they have both endured at the hands of their aristocratic tormentors.

Noteworthy word choice: Patrick compares himself at the hands of Putiphar to a virtuous maiden (we have joked in the groupchat about Debby and Patrick being lesbians before... Butch Lesbian Patrick confirmed)

Another thing i found startlingly contemporary sounding, in our days of lawfare and soft coups, Patrick, talkig of how Putiphar can use his theft and murder accusatio to give her illegal persecution a virtuous veneer: “she’ll be able, not that she cares about it, to mask her revenge behind an honest mask (...)”(tr, by cam)

Theres an absurdly ooc Deborah moment when she weeps and declares herself a burden. His beauty could have been the key to a brilliant social assent. Patrick corrects her, slightly offended because he is not about that #arriviste #boytoy life (Debby already knows that!???!) But Debby is only saying all of this because she fears this Fredegund’s retaliation........

Since God is apparently devoid of his divine wrath, and the powerful villains go unpunished, they must leave Paris in search of a new Promissed Land (slightly Candide-ish, right?) where if men are not less evil, (Patrick moves away from Rousseau... at least for a second) at the very least they can hope for a less asymmetrical distribution of power. Patrick has his naif hopes set on one of those ignored places European society calls savage, which he assumes will be more fit to give them “their share of sun, land and fraternity” (this is also a common theme in french novels of the day... Patrick at least still hopes to find Fraternity in these unspecified so called third world lands, instead of lording over the savages like Thénarider or Goriot era Vautrin...-Splendeurs era Vautrin hopes for an American Forest to die alone in after having eaten his own tongue. Progress. Growth.)

The only way of living in the European City is howling with the wolves, and since they’re not willing to do so, because they are lambs, they must leave. And Fast. So first to Marseille, Geneva or Livorne, and then to whatever earthly “virgin” rousseau/bougainville paradise they choose to set their paths to.

So Patrick (finally!!! sorry) leaves to buy some tickets in the first available carriage, Deborah will pack their things to avoid boredom/stress. Patrick wants a kiss, she refuses bc the farewell will then feel too final (...) Patrick claims that iron cannot harm a limb that has been kissed by a woman’s lips, so she passionately kisses him over his heart... but as soon as he sets foot on the streets Deborah hears him cry out for help. He is taken away by the kings men (illegally, in the night, shielded by the darkness) Patrick warns her not to come (she has to think of their baby) and says farewell forever. She throws out a flaming curtain for visibility. she sees as she descends, how Patrick is taken away in a palace carriage. She faints. Is taken away by Palace guardsmen herself. Book Two is over. Lasciate ogni speranza?

{ @sainteverge @counterwiddershins }

[kestrellady]

Reading Around the World Challenge

Read one book set in every country around the world

Ongoing Total: 49/195 Setting and Author: 34/195 Setting Only: 15/195

The StoryGraph Challenge Link

My guidelines for this challenge:

Books should be set primarily or entirely in that country. (No travelogues counting for multiple countries.)

Fiction is preferred, but memoirs are acceptable. No history books.

Magical Realism and Fantasy are acceptable, so long as the country is named and recognizable. (No high fantasy inspired by the country.)

Authors should be from that country, living there for a majority or large portion of their lives and closely identifying with the country.

Diaspora and descendant authors are on a case-by-case, with the above criteria in mind.

Please feel free to send me suggestions! I read primarily in English, but can also do intermediate Spanish, so I'm interested in adding some Spanish language books to the list. Let me know if you disagree with my characterization of any authors or have suggestions for an author from a particular country.

Full list under the cut.

Setting and Author

Afghanistan - The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini Not generally a fan of literary fiction, but I actually didn't hate this! A more hopeful ending than I expected.

Albania - The Ghost Rider by Ismail Kadare This did not end at all how I expected. A quick and fascinating read.

Algeria - The Stranger by Albert Camus & The Meursault Investigation by Kamel Daoud Interesting to read these two together, and glad to have the literary background, but not really my thing.

Angola - A General Theory of Oblivion by Jose Eduardo Agualusa, Trans. Daniel Hahn A bunch of intertwined stories centered around Angola's independence and the following decades. I'm not sure I would call this magical realism, but it kinda has that feel to it.

Antigua and Barbuda - A Small Place by Jamaica Kincaid Fascinating long essay that is a must read for tourists, particularly those traveling in the Caribbean.

Argentina - Mouthful of Birds by Samanta Schweblin Collection of horror and adjacent short stories.

Armenia - Three Apples Fell from the Sky by Narine Abgaryan, translated by Lisa C. Hayden A dying village on a mountain finds a reason to keep going. It's got that slight fairy/folktale feel to it that commonly gets called "magical realism."

Australia - The Things She's Seen by Ambelin and Ezekiel Kwaymullina Surprisingly sweet and wonderfully clever. Really enjoyed this one!

Cambodia - Music of the Ghosts by Vaddey Ratner This is a really lovely novel about healing after tragedy and finding your home again after it's been destroyed.

Colombia - Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez I preferred 100 Years of Solitude, but this is the novel more firmly set in Colombia.

Cuba - The Tower of the Antilles by Achy Obejas A volume of short stories exploring life in Cuba and in the US as an immigrant from Cuba. Not my favorite short story collection, but there were a couple that were really evocative.

France - The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas Read an abridgement that made me want to go back and read the unabridged version. Liked this better than The Three Musketeers.

Ghana - Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi Literary, but enjoyable! The back and forth twining of the storylines was used to really good effect.

India - A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth This is billed as a romance, but don't believe it. It's long, the links between the storylines aren't always clear, and it's a "realistic" ending.

Ireland - Dubliners by James Joyce These are... meh? More like vignettes than short stories. And very "everyone is unhappy."

Italy - The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco This was really interesting! I feel like I need to read it again to really get all the twists and turns.

Japan - The Travelling Cat Chronicles by Hiro Arikawa This was so sweet! And bittersweet. Just generally lovely.

Kenya - Unbowed by Wangari Maathai An interesting memoir by a remarkable woman.

Malawi - The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind by William Kamkwamba and Bryan Meler A fascinating story of how ingenuity, persistence, and small changes can profoundly change a community.

Malaysia - The Ghost Bride by Yangsze Choo I really liked this one! A good spooky mystery with great fantasy/folklore elements.

Mexico - Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia Loved this book! Great horror story.

Netherlands - The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank Important, but sad work.

New Zealand - Quiet in Her Bones by Nalini Singh Thriller filled with interesting if not always likeable characters and a somewhat unreliable narrator.

Nigeria - Noor by Nnedi Okorafor Not my favorite of Okorafor's works, but a fascinating near-future sci-fi.

Norway - Kristin Lavransdatter by Sigrid Undset Not a happy story, but well written and engrossing, even at over a thousand pages.

Pakistan - Unmarriageable by Soniah Kamal A retelling of Pride and Prejudice set in Pakistan. I loved the way that Pakistani culture was woven through and enhanced the original plot and themes. A really good read!

Poland - Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk Interesting mystery if not ultimately quite my thing.

Russia - War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy Yes, I did read the unabridged version. Yes, you should definitely find the abridged version.

Rwanda - Our Lady of Kibeho by Immaculée Ilibagiza First hand accounts of a little known Marian apparition in Rwanda.

Singapore - Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan Enjoyed this and its sequels. Less a romance and more intertwined stories of a family dynasty.

Switzerland - Heidi by Johanna Spyri Classic children's novel.

Syria - The Map of Salt and Stars by Zeyn Joukhadar Sad and lyrical. A great exploration of the legends and towns of North Africa. (This one barely counts as mostly set in Syria.)

United Kingdom - Persuasion by Jane Austen Lots to choose from, but officially using my favorite Jane Austen.

United States of America - The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne Weird story, beautiful prose.

Setting Only

Austria - The Star of Kazan by Eva Ibbotson Read this as a kid and remember really liking it. Should probably find one that I actually remember....

Canada - Hatchet by Gary Paulsen Very formative of my childhood, so I had to include it.

China - The Bonesetter's Daughter by Amy Tan I remember this being one of my favorite's of Amy Tan but not much more.

Cyprus - Othello by William Shakespeare Apparently this one counts? This play has good speeches but is not great for a modern audience.

Democratic Republic of the Congo - The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver Had to read this for class in high school and can't say I enjoyed it.

Egypt - River God by Wilbur Smith Definitely one of my favorites out of my Wilbur Smith phase.

Greece - The Magus by John Fowles Really weird book that's on the BBC Top 100 books for some reason?

Romania - Hunting Prince Dracula by Kerri Maiscalco Book 2 in this YA series with main characters and a romance I love.

Solomon Islands - Devil-Devil by Graeme Kent This was a really fun mystery that centers the clash of traditional, modern, and colonial societies.

South Africa - The Woman Next Door by Yewande Omotoso Fun little neighborhood drama.

South Korea - Wicked Fox by Kat Cho Really enjoyed this YA novel set in Seoul. Good fantasy and interesting moral dilemmas.

Vatican City - Angels and Demons by Dan Brown Easily my favorite Dan Brown. Though the sequels get a little off the rails. (Not sure anyone counts as a native of Vatican City?)

Vietnam - The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien Short stories inspired by the author's time in the Vietnam War.

Yemen - Don't Be Afraid of the Bullets by Laura Kasinof A budding journalist describes her experience in Yemen during the Arab Spring.

Zimbabwe - A Girl Named Disaster by Nancy Farmer Loved this book as a kid, it's one that really stuck with me over the years.

To Be Read

Andorra, Azerbaijan, The Bahamas, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belarus, Belgium, Belize, Benin, Bhutan, Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana, Brazil, Brunei, Bulgaria, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Côte d'Ivoire, Cabo Verde, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Chile, Comoros, Costa Rica, Croatia, Czechia (Czech Republic), Denmark, Djibouti, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Estonia, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Fiji, Finland, Gabon, The Gambia, Georgia, Germany, Grenada, Guatemala, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Hungary, Iceland, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jamaica, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kiribati, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Latvia, Lebanon, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Madagascar, Maldives, Mali, Malta, Marshall Islands, Mauritania, Mauritius, Micronesia, Moldova, Monaco, Mongolia, Montenegro, Morocco, Mozambique, Myanmar, Namibia, Nauru, Nepal, Nicaragua, Niger, North Korea, North Macedonia, Oman, Palau, Palestine, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Portugal, Qatar, Republic of the Congo, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Samoa, San Marino, São Tomé and Príncipe, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Serbia, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Slovakia, Slovenia, Somalia, South Sudan, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Suriname, Sweden, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Thailand, Timor-Leste, Togo, Tonga, Trinidad and Tobago, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Tuvalu, Uganda, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, Uruguay, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu, Venezuela, Zambia

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#5

Cats-ucopia: Paris 1989

For @storyweaverofgondor‘s blog anniversary event, I did something I didn’t think of at first - I retranslated JSfJC from the original into a new (better imo) version.(If you’ve known me long enough, you can realise how much I am annoyed by the translations.) I really liked comparing the original to the English lyrics, so this was fun!

(I also wanted to sing it and edit with background music, but I fell quite sick this morning and that is Not Possible.)

Translation under the cut!

Italics represents lyrics that are the same in the original version. I tried to make it more literal than the original, so as to preserve as much of T. S. Eliot’s original text as possible.

���CHANTS JELLICLE POUR CHATS JELLICLES”

Êtes-vous né aveugle ?

Voyez-vous dans le noir ?

Sur le trône d’un roi

Pourriez-vous vous asseoir ?

 Peut-on dire de vos cris

Qu’ils sont pires que vos crocs ?

Êtes-vous roi de Paris

Quand vous marchez tout seul ?

 Parce que          

Jellicles peuvent et Jellicles vont*

Jellicles vont et Jellicles f’raient

Jellicle f’raient et Jellicles peuvent

Jellicles peuvent et Jellicles vont

 Quand vous êtes dans l’air, tombez-vous sur vos pieds ?

Sentez-vous les changements qui se passent dans l’air ?

Êtes-vous capable de retrouver, aveugle, votre chemin ?

Savez-vous pénétrer dans la Félinosphère ?

 Parce que

Jellicles peuvent et Jellicles vont

Jellicles vont et Jellicles peuvent

Jellicles peuvent et Jellicles vont

Jellicles vont et Jellicles peuvent

Jellicles peuvent et Jellicles vont

 Les repaires des sorcières, pouvez-vous y aller ?

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#4

rant/general anxiety following

So I need to apply to universities soon. Technically I need to apply next year (2024) BUT I need to take some tests and stuff and do trips for open days and things like that so the preparation starts in January. This is causing me a lot of stress but that’s not the issue

My dream university is Oxford. My second dream uni is Trinity College Dublin.

I’m really interested in languages (& linguistics) and acting, but I’m worried that I won’t find jobs if I do those studies and that I just won’t have assured for myself a good future. It’s well-known that most actors who aren’t famous really struggle and I just don’t see many opportunities in linguistics - as much as I want to do historical linguistic research, I do want stable income in the future, and I’m not sure either acting or linguistics can guarantee that (more than, say, a business degree).

Oxford is truly the university I want to go to, and setting aside the cost (It’d end up costing me about 50000 pounds per year with the overseas fees!) I just don’t know what to study. I’ve selected three courses that I’m interested in, namely:

English Language and Literature

English and Modern Languages

Modern Languages and Linguistics

I don’t know what to choose (that’s another thing to think about later on), but in two of those there’s Modern Languages, and that’s something I’m worried about - I currently take fluent English and French, and I’m learning German too (and Latin and Ancient Greek but they aren’t needed for these courses).

“For Linguistics and French, German, Modern Greek*, Italian*, Portuguese*, Russian and Spanish candidates would usually be expected to have the language to A-level, Advanced Higher, Higher Level in the IB or another academic equivalent.”

(Modern Greek, Italian, and Portuguese all have beginner options, but German doesn’t)

The only language between French and German that I have fluency level (A-level) in is French, but to be honest... I don’t really want to study stuff in French, especially when the resources will be available to me in the original language if ever I feel interested. That leaves German, and although this is my 4th year... I still have a lot of trouble with it, and I’m maybe A2 level. I used to be B1, but I missed a year so my level went down. That’s obviously not A-level, and not enough to register German as the main Modern Language I’m studying. But Modern Languages and Linguistics is the course I’m the most interested in from all three, and I really want to do it, so I don’t see a solution in this apart from studying German like mad next year, but I’m afraid that still won’t be enough. (If anyone has read this and has any input, please please please say anything about this it’s horrible stressing about it and anything would help)

I’m also scared of taking English Language & Literature because, well, while I love English, I’m not quite sure I want to spend an additional four years doing analysis, however much I like it (I love analysis, just not as much as linguistics). This does seem like the degree that brings about the most options for the future, though, and the most accessible one for me.

The last one in Oxford that I’m interested in (these aren’t actually ranked apart from ML&L, but I’m writing this as I think about it) is English and Modern Languages.

“For English and French, German, Russian and Spanish “Essential:  Candidates are expected to have English Literature, or English Language and Literature, to A-level, Advanced Higher, Higher Level in the IB or any other equivalent. Candidates would usually be expected to have the language or languages to A-level, Advanced Higher, Higher Level in the IB or another academic equivalent.”

Same problem as before: I don’t have that level in German. I definitely have it in French, but again: I don’t exactly want to study in French, especially since if I really wanted to I could study for (almost) free in Paris considering that I’m a French citizen. French is my fallback for the situation in which absolutely nothing can be done to make my German better, in which case I’ll apply to the courses in French.

All this to say that I don’t know what course to try to apply to at Oxford, and just how difficult it’ll be for me to apply considering my level. I just don’t know what to do about Oxford.

Now, onto Trinity College Dublin! (Which I’m going to call TCD because it’s a long name.)

TCD was presented to me in a meeting for Irish unis and it stood out to me, and now that I’m thinking about it seriously I think I’d like it there. But if the choice of courses at Oxford was high, TCD has SO MUCH STUFF. I have never seen so many possible courses. At least price isn’t the issue there - I’d be at around 10000 euros/year which is feasible much more than Oxford’s 50000 pounds.

The courses that interest me are:

Acting (unsure if I’m really interested in this one)

Diploma in Acting and Theatre (same question for all things theatre... is it worth it?)

Drama and Theatre Studies

English Studies (see Oxford point about analysis)

German (JH) (I have NO IDEA what JH means. None whatsoever. I’m just interested by the course description) I feel like this one could be feasible if I enrolled as a beginner (I’d know the basics before other students but I’m willing to live with that no problem)

Linguistics (JH) (The opportunity problem)

Modern Language (JH) (Here, I think I could take German, or at least as a New Minor in Second Year. That seems possible according to the website? It would be if I wanted to take something else like Theatre or English.)

And that concludes the list! There’s a really wide range available at TCD and honestly that’s what scares me - what to choose? What if I choose the wrong thing and I’ll live knowing that I’ll have applied to something wrong when the other option was right there??

The German/French problem is also slightly present for TCD but much less majorly (ha), since they offer beginner courses for most of those. I’m just confused about what to choose, and I guess scared at the idea of college full stop. I just don’t know what to take. (Opinion that’s unpopular with worldwide education systems: DON’T FORCE PEOPLE TO CHOOSE THEIR FUTURE AS TEENAGERS. IT’S VERY VERY SCARY.)

I think that concludes the rant. I wanted to say something else about TCD but I don’t remember what, so I’ll stop here before the swirling ball of anxiety in my stomach becomes even bigger. Also, class at 8.20 AM tomorrow morning!

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#3

I am 15.

I am 13.

I am all of the ages and people and places that have composed me.

The birthday party when I was 7.

The theatre when I was 12.

I am a shell made of the glowing pieces of all that I have left behind.

I am a fractured mosaic of collaged memories.

A mother's cries for a lost child

A daughter weeping for a past she cannot know.

Diligent screams of families of children past.

Unfulfilled conditions to lead to futures that cannot be.

Choices gone back too late after the unescapeable consequences

Responsibilities ignored in favour of a gilded cage of freedom

Ambiguities fallaciously interpreted into wrong rights

I am 7, and I have not yet known loss.

I am 11, and my life has not quite begun but the beginning that's started is unbearably joyful.

I am 14, and things once gone cannot come back.

I am one and a half, and life-changing events have affected me without my knowledge.

I am all of the ages and places and people that have composed me.

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@thegentlemanstar this is it 👉👈

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#2

anyone have any profile picture suggestions?

18 notes - Posted August 31, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

There’s a strange number of people active in both Cats the Musical and the Lord of the Rings fandoms, but I wouldn’t change it for the world! (It’s very fun to see this incredibly specific crossover be so popular (compared to the size of the Cats fandom) since it’s not immediately obvious. But I love it!)

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[when-did-this-become-difficult]

While I try to think of answers for the ones you asked me, turnabout's fair play!

😂 What’s the funniest comment someone has left on a fic of yours?

❤️ Who is your favorite character to write for and why?

🏅 What is the fic you’re most proud of?

🤔 What’s one genre you’ve never written that you’d like to try?

aaah @nerdsandthelike thank you for the ask! How did you know that I was on a very boring work zoom?

😂 It's a tie! Candidate 1) simply "ma'am" on pink flush problems, a sex pollen Dublin Murder Squad fic...which is a fair reaction lmao. It made me feel like a gruff old guy in a uniform or something read my smut in a newspaper, nodded to me from over the counter, then left. 2) Then there's this comment on self-elegy of the latehomecomer, by my fic recipient and friend and a LOVELY writer themselves, @hausofmamadas: "BUT the allusions to PTSD and confronting (or perhaps consequences of not confronting) the lifelong trauma caused by his involvement with/exposure to routine violence/brutality stirs such a shitstorm of feelings, I am presently giving it a Goog to see if this is what an aneurysm feels like? Like for Barrón, there is sobs no running left. Likewise, there is no running left for the hamster on the hamster wheel that powers my brain bc the hamster tripped, is now comically stuck to one spot on the wheel, trapped by the centripetal force, and is spinning round and round and round forever." Their comment is as good as or better than the fic itself, and it kills me every time.

❤️ I feel like once upon a time, it was probably any given member of the Shelby family in the fandom Peaky Blinders, because I was just so so comfortable there and had written so much for those characters. But now, I don't think I have one. The last favorite I had was probably Carrillo from Narcos (TV), but I'm currently in the land of mild writer's block.

🏅 Ooh, is it enough, which is a Dublin Murder Squad fic that's also a Pacific Rim fusion. I think I managed to utilize the extreme unreliability that Rob has as a narrator, and even though it's kind of a wild fusion, I also utilized the mind-meld aspect of the drift in a Tana Frenchy way (read: I fucked up people's relationships a lil extra). I really like deliberate ambiguity that leaves more than one possible meaning/ending, and this is one of the only fics where I had the guts to commit to that instead of chickening out and going back to edit it to have just one definitive ending. Runner-up is Oblivion (Never Been A Better Reason) because that's one of those times when I was going through it™ but successfully sublimated it into a Thing.

🤔 I feel like I've dipped my toes into most genres at this point, even ones that are a bit of stretch for me. I'd love to be able to write little baby ficlets in Spanish one day! I have one (1) line of Narcos (TV) dialogue that's only ever gonna work in Spanish and it's like, so weak, it's not even really a pun, but I want it baddddddd. Algún día, man...cuando no tengo que ir al google translate para aprender si necesito un acento en "algún" o no. asd;klfj;sjda baby steps

asks from this fanfic ask game!

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my 2022 reading wrapped 

non-fiction

black bull, ancestors and me by nkunzi zandile nkabinde / didn’t rate

canberra by paul daley / ☆☆☆☆

all about love: new visions by bell hooks / didn’t rate

how the pill changes everything: your brain on birth control by sarah e. hill / ☆☆☆.5

I’m glad my mom died by jeannette mccurdy / didn’t rate

policing desire: pornography, AIDS and the media by simon watney / didn’t rate

notes of a native son by james baldwin / didn’t rate

women race and class by angela davis 

come as you are by emily nagoski / ☆☆☆☆☆

slouching toward bethlehem by joan didion / didn’t rate

classics

the house on the strand by daphne du maurier / ☆☆☆

wide sargasso sea by jean rhys / didn’t rate

brideshead revisited by evelyn waugh / ☆☆☆☆

fantasy

iron heart by nina varela / ☆☆☆☆

elantris by brandon sanderson / ☆☆☆☆

spinning silver by naomi novak / dnf

babel, or the necessity of violence: an arcane history of the oxford translators' revolution by r.f kuang / ☆☆☆☆

a gathering of shadows by v.e schwab / ☆☆☆ (reread)

the city we became by n.k jemisin / ☆☆☆☆

come tumbling down by seanan mcguire / ☆☆☆

the wolf and the woodsman by ava reid / dnf

the atlas six by olivie blake / ☆☆☆☆

in deeper waters by f.t lukens / ☆☆

science fiction

middlegame by seanan mcguire / ☆☆☆.5

magical realism

lakelore by anna-marie mclemore / ☆☆☆

mystery/thriller/crime

in my dreams i hold a knife by ashley winstead / ☆☆☆

good rich people by eliza jane brazier / ☆☆☆

the anatomy of desire by l.r dorn / dnf

portrait of a thief by grace d. li / ☆☆

anxious people by fredrik backman / ☆☆

boy parts by eliza clark / ☆☆☆☆☆

contemporary fiction

i kissed shara wheeler by casey mcquiston / ☆☆☆☆

no hard feelings by genevieve novak / ☆☆☆☆

everyone in this room will someday be dead by emily austin / ☆☆☆☆

norwegian wood by haruki murakami / ☆☆☆.5

ophelia after all by racquel marie / ☆☆☆.5

historical fiction

the seven husbands of evelyn hugo by taylor jenkins reid / ☆☆☆☆☆ (reread)

the remains of the day by kazuo ishiguro / ☆☆☆☆

a thousand splendid suns by khaled hosseini /  ☆☆☆☆

carrie soto is back by taylor jenkins reid / ☆☆☆☆

pachinko by min jin lee / ☆☆☆☆.5

romance:

the spanish love deception by elena armas / ☆☆

saving the star by rachel bowdler / ☆☆ 

love and other words by christina lauren / ☆☆

crazy rich asians by kevin kwan / ☆☆☆

book lovers by emily henry / ☆☆☆☆

take a hint, dani brown by talia hibbert / ☆☆☆

beach read by emily henry / ☆☆☆

the viscount who loved me by julia quinn / dnf

open water by caleb azumah nelson / ☆☆☆☆

translated fiction:

beauty is a wound by eka kurniawan (indonesian) / didn’t rate

childhood by tove ditlevsen (danish) / didn’t rate

lemon by kwon yeo-sun (korean) / ☆☆☆

things we lost in the fire by mariana enríquez (argentinian) / didn’t rate

kim jiyoung born 1982 by cho nam-joo (korean) / ☆☆

short story collections

dubliners by james joyce / ☆☆ ½

a thousand years of good prayers by yiyun li / didn’t rate

her body and other parties by carmen maria machado / ☆☆☆

total books read: 58 total pages read: 12, 331 total hours listened: 181.58

[mip-map-mop]

Late, but recently got into TUA and want to share what I made.

So obviously, each of the siblings were born in different places:

Luther: Stockholm, Sweden

Diego: Mexico (Exact city not specified, but we know his mom Elena lived in a small town in northern Mexico)

Allison: Capetown, South Africa

Klaus: Pennsylvania, United States

Five: Dublin, Ireland

Ben: Seoul, South Korea

Viktor: Moscow, Russia

I feel like I was definitely reaching for some, but that's the chart I made and here are some explanations:

Klaus spoke German in S1E2 I think and has spoken it multiple times?

In S1, The Handler needs to translate "raison d'etre" for Five.

In S2, Klaus says, "Le Petite Mort" and Allison says, "You can't speak French," so I thought maybe she can speak French? Again, I'm just totally guessing.

In S2E5 (or E6 I think?), Five quoted Homer's The Odyssey to Reginald. This is because he made all the siblings read it (or read it to them? Not sure what he actually said) in "the original Greek, no less." That's why I put for all of them that they knew Greek, but I'm not sure if they're actually fluent.

In S2E7, Luther and Diego couldn't recognize Swedish, but if we're assuming all of the siblings speak what would've been their native languages, Luther should know. I saw someone say his Swedish is likely very rusty, so I'm not gonna give up on him just yet.

In S2 (I forgot what episode), Allison says can read 7 languages, implying her siblings know AT LEAST 7 as well.

Despite having lost his memory at the time, Viktor spoke Russian in S2E8.

Diego has spoken Spanish multiple times, such as with his son in S3E5. One of the more known examples is when he and Sparrow Ben got in an argument, in which Diego broke out into Spanish and Korean, respectively. I know this was just the actors were having fun, but still.

S3E6 Diego couldn't read a Japanese sign. If I put Lila on the chart, I would mark down Japanese for her since she was able to read it.

Other:

Five likely knows more than 7 languages, presumably from when he was working for the Temps Commission. Additionally, he has spoken Italian to Delores.

As I said when talking about Luther, it is likely that the siblings can speak what would have been their native languages. This is seen with Diego, Sparrow Ben, and Viktor.

That said, I don't see a reason why Sparrow Ben would know Korean and Umbrella Ben wouldn't. That's why I put that Umbrella Ben knew Korean.

I put Afrikaans for Allison since it's one of the more popular languages in Capetown according to my research. However, I'm obviously not an expert on languages spoken in Africa.

Klaus spoke Vietnamese in the comics (I think?), but this chart is specific to the Netflix show.

All in all, I think I'm reaching/making too big assumptions for some, but I think I might be sort of accurate? If I get something wrong, please tell me!

So Diego speaks Spanish on multiple occasions in the series, but that makes me wonder, when did he learn that? Like, I doubt Reginald made any opportunities for the umbrellas to connect with their ethnic/cultural heritages. Which brings me to the conclusion that Diego must've learned it himself after moving out of the academy.

Imagine, if you will, all day Diego goes around punching bad guys in the face and then in the evening he goes and takes spanish classes at the local college

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i have been having... A TIME... this week, but i am FINALLY on desktop which means i can answer this!!

relationship status: practicing cultivational purity <3 (aroace)

favorite colors: HASHTAG PURPLE LIFE

favorite food: a while back at work we were having a conversation over lunch about which food you'd pick if you could only eat one thing for the rest of your life, and it's gotta be burritos for me. (to elaborate: carnitas, black beans, spanish rice, fajita veggies, roasted-tomato salsa or salsa verde, and, if i'm feeling like some kind of decadent child king, guacamole.)

song stuck in your head: for the past few days i've been listening to The Rocky Road to Dublin on loop, so currently it's that. (other songs that have been stuck in my head recently: bellowhead's version of Roll the Woodpile Down, the high kings' Step It Out Mary, the trials of cato's Bedlam Boys, and anaïs mitchell's Willie's Lady. i'm going through a phase rn dont @ me)

last thing you googled: the actual last thing i googled was anaïs mitchell because i dont remember the ubuntu shortcuts for diacritics, only the vim ones, but immediately before that it was "what to do with mobile deposit checks" (boring) and "norwegian tablet weaving" (i need a new hobby like i need a hole in the head and i already have some woven bands i bought in setesdal for if i ever get off my ass and make a bunad. HOWEVER,)

time: 13:00 on the dot

dream trip: for ages i've been rotating in my head a road trip up from california to seattle and back, hitting everything in the list of historical mechanical engineering places on the west coast. as i originally planned it in 2019 the goal was to visit the living computer museum in seattle, which is unfortunately now closed indefinitely due to covid, but i'm sure there are other, less exciting things in seattle. another key stop is powell's bookstore in portland (this is a primary motive for it being a road trip: i intend to LOAD THE FUCK UP).

if we're talking pipe dreams, i really want to go to the kubinka tank museum with the besties @transbionic-shieldmaiden and @combat-epistemologist, because @transbionic-shieldmaiden infodumped to us about tanks for a solid half hour when we were at the aquarium and i want to see her in her Final Form (ascended autistic). this is probably not going to happen, though, because it is in russia and all of us are queer and trans :/

my other Unnecessarily Profligate Pipe Dream Vacation is to take six months off work and travel around the world experiencing trains and cool architecture. i fly to london, i wander around the british isles looking at castles and gothic cathedrals, i take the train to france, i visit the notre dame in paris and probably also rheims cathedral, i take the train to germany, i wander around berlin for a while because i've never been there, i take the train down to munich my beloved and thence to switzerland when i'm done looking at castles in bavaria, i go hiking a bunch in switzerland and attempt to understand swiss german, i take the train to austria, once i feel i can read dutch with a straight face i go to the netherlands, eventually when i'm done taking trains in europe i fly to japan, etc. you get the idea.

last thing you read: currently rereading this wangxian bodyswap fic (usually i dont read much mdzs fic but i felt The Urge after finishing vol 5), but according to my ao3 history the actual last thing i read was this because i randomly remembered it existed

last book you enjoyed reading: this, a translation of a delightfully unhinged late-Ming guide for avoiding scams

last book you hated reading: usually i dont bother to slog through books i hate but i was really frustrated by Move Fast and Break Things by Jonathan Taplin, probably because i've been so Cory Doctorow-pilled (HIGHLY recommend reading Chokepoint Capitalism if the topic of making a living as a creator under tech platform dominance is of interest). mr. taplin is, like, SO CLOSE to getting it! i'm nodding along with 80% of his arguments! and then he always concludes that copyright law needs to be stricter and the DMCA didn't go far enough.

wait i forgot about this until i flipped through my book tracker but i also genuinely hated Gold Fame Citrus by Claire Vaye Watkins. it's technically well-executed but it contains both major character death and deeply annoying PoV characters, two of my least favorite things.

favorite thing to cook/bake: i normally do not cook because i am terrible at remembering to eat until i'm already too hungry to function, so it's a very good thing @combat-epistemologist meal preps for me. once in a blue moon i'll make, like, these cookies or sugar cookies or lefse or something.

favorite craft to do in your free time: i'm the mayor of Weird Hobby City and i live there full-time. my latest obsession is bookbinding (usually of danmei and fanfiction) but i also knit, crochet, quilt, sew, restore antique sewing machines, oil paint, and sometimes do woodworking (no pictures of that, sorry). i also used to build robots in my dad's garage but now that i have a full-time robot job i don't really have the energy for additional, extracurricular robotics :p

most niche dislike: coworkers with SLIGHTLY different opinions about how to represent three-dimensional coordinate transforms. quaternion haters dont even fucking speak to me

opinion on circuses: i constantly look with yearning at the circus arts classes at the san francisco circus center, because as a kid my primary sport was gymnastics and, like, i miss it terribly but i also want to do a different, adjacent form of exercise where the ghost of my judgmental twelve-year-old self isn't constantly looking over my shoulder.

do you have any sense of direction: somewhat, but i definitely have to live in a place for a while and build up a mental coordinate system first -- in boston/cambridge/somerville i referenced the charles river, mass ave, and the red line, and if i got out of range of all of those points of reference i relied heavily on google maps to get me un-lost. in the sf bay area as long as i'm on the peninsula and 101/the bay/the santa cruz mountains are visible i can usually triangulate, and i grew up in the south bay so the 85/101/237 triangle is pretty familiar, but i get hopelessly lost in the east bay (580? 880? 680????); google maps is the only reason i've ever managed to arrive in berkeley intact.

tagging: @verycharismaticdragon, @owldork1998, @ilthit, @blondejaneblonde, @wolffyluna, @ghostly-squid (usual rules apply -- feel free to ignore, or consider yourself tagged if you like)

Tag 10 People You Wanna Get to Know Better

Tagged by @bishounen-jump <33. Prefacing this by saying I have terrible memory.

Relationship Status: A toxic relationship with my college who I hate very much but I need for the money.

Favorite Colors: Black and Purple.

Favorite Food: I can't pick man. I'm awful at these questions. uhh Ramen. All of them.

Song Stuck in My Head: Funnily enough I've never had a song stuck in my head.

Last Thing You Googled: "dunce cap" ; It was an image search. Highly recommend.

Time: 1:42 pm

Dream Trip: World trip. I absolutely hate travelling and have insane motion sickness. I wish I could just teleport places. But to one day be able to (and have the funds) travel around the world just sounds fun.

Last Thing You Read: Currently trying to read Mo Du.

Last Book You Enjoyed Reading: I was re-reading Liu Yao and it's honestly such fun (skip the island obviously). I adore the characterisations and interactions.

Last Book You Hated Reading: Good Omens. I can't explain it but there's something about Neil Gaiman's writing that makes it feel like I'm slogging through it. His books always have such interesting plots though.

Favorite Thing to Cook/Bake: (;o;) I'm awful at both (;o;)

Favorite Craft to Do in Your Free Time: I need to learn how to sew and all those handy hobbies. For now I just doodle or write words in the hope it'll improve my handwriting.

Most Niche Dislike: People being incessantly insecure on main. Please by all means go ahead. I just need to block and move on. Wish tumblr had a mute function.

Opinion on Circuses: Never been to one. I think clowns are a necessity in this world in general. They're also a sign that you can really just be whoever you want in this world. Yet another reason to hate capitalism. How many people do you know who would've become clowns if they didn't need money?

Do You Have Any Sense of Direction: Yes, I can actually read a map and if I go through a route at least twice I'll remember the turns.

I tag thee: @katie-altman @anqelbean @oscar-mildes @missveryvery @mu-qingfang-stan-account @cum-villain

[daisybees]

i started watching cherrybomb for rob but.... i can’t understand a word any of them are saying

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New OC Alert:

Name: Siobhan (Pronounced Shiv-awn) Kelly

Nickname: Sia (Pronounced like Shea)

Age: 33

Height: 5′1″

Nationality: Irish

Languages: English, Gaelic, Latin, French, Italian and Spanish (Speaks in a thick Dublin accent)

Skills: translation, research, specializes in maritime history

Ship: Samuel Drake

Faceclaim: Eve Hewson

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Father, Domhnall Kelly, is a professor at Trinity College. Mother, Ciara Kelly, has long had ties with criminal elements. Brother, Padrick aka "Paddy", a low level criminal who worked as a gun for hire as part of Rafe's excavation of St. Dismas Cathedral in Scotland.

Siobhan took the academic route in life, following in her father's footsteps. She was always interested in her father's love for history and like him, chose to specialize in maritime history

As an employee for Rafe she does her best to keep the “fancy man” happy at all costs while exploring and studying the cathedral on his hunt for the second cross. For two years they slowly but steadily searched every last inch in the search for Avery’s treasure.

[dwellordream]

“...We must again turn to politics fully to understand the people’s response to Reformation. The great difference between Ireland and the other British realms was that Ireland’s English rulers did not treat its people as they treated the Welsh or Highlands Gaels. Wales had been incorporated into a United Kingdom with England in the 1530s, with parliamentary representation and mostly native administration of church and shires. The Scots Highlands, of course, were never subject to English administration: the union of crowns, when James VI succeeded Elizabeth in 1603, did not subjugate the independent realm of Scotland. But Ireland had been a “lordship” of the English crown since the Anglo-Norman conquest of the twelfth century. 

In 1541, in the wake of a major Irish rebellion, it became in effect a colony when Henry VIII claimed the title of king, not just overlord, of Ireland. The Irish population in the sixteenth century was divided into three very unequal parts: the most numerous and least powerful Gaelic Irish; the “Old English,” or semi-Gaelicized descendants of the Anglo-Norman conquest living in or near the Pale around Dublin; and the “New English,” or post-Reformation arrivals often given land confiscated from Irish rebels. The New English also got the most powerful and lucrative administrative positions. The Gaelic Irish and Old English, unlike the Scots, certainly never invited English alliance. Henry, Edward, and especially Elizabeth were their oppressors. 

Real parliamentary power lay in Westminster; the Irish parliament could only do as it was told. English planters had fiscal and tax advantages over natives and occupied lands seized violently from Gaels. And to hold land at all after the Reformation, one had to swear the oath of supremacy, acknowledging the English monarch as supreme head of the church in his or her realms. The Irish people came to recognize Protestantism as part of the machinery of oppression. Despite the negative associations of Protestantism with English domination, there were a few early successes for Protestants in Ireland. The Elizabethan government sensibly permitted a Latin translation of the Book of Common Prayer in 1559, so that some people were lured in by the similarity of the service to the familiar Mass.

 A particularly zealous Protestant preacher, Bishop John Bale, won a few converts in Ossory and Kilkenny. And the first Jesuit mission of 1542 reported “the few faithful [Catholics] are too poor to support us” and others had been “subdued by fear.” They gave up the mission after just a few weeks and fled to Scotland, where they were arrested. But at this early stage, the Irish seem rather more confused than persuaded by Protestantism. The situation changed dramatically when Elizabeth determined to impose the new faith by force, along with a systematic repression of Irish culture—language, music, dress, law, and religion. Catholics’ estates were forfeit to the Crown, and one whose property was valued under £20 could be imprisoned for a year. 

Now the traditional and very popular faith long maintained by the preaching friars in close alliance with the aes dána, the Gaelic learned orders of Ireland, provided the banner of resistance to English domination at all social levels. Counter-Reformation missions strengthened the resolve of the Irish people to wield that banner in the face of real persecution. Irish students returned from Spanish and French seminaries to build on the popularity of the mendicant orders working from centers in the west of the island, beyond effective English rule. Chan-tries beyond the Pale had never been dissolved and now supported Catholic clergy. Observant Franciscans led successful missions, joined by Jesuits in 1542, 1560, and especially 1598. 

Ordinary people flocked to hear them say masses and preach, whatever the danger. As one scribbled notebook entry indicates, the people had come to understand English Protestantism not as a path to spiritual freedom but as divine punishment for their sins. Periodically over the course of the century, Gaelic chieftains raised rebellions against English tyranny. These were always brutally repressed, the families of the defeated often systematically starved out in the aftermath when the Crown seized vast tracts of Irish land and turned it over to English and Scots “planters.” 

The Ulster plantation of 1609 was the culmination, settling radically Calvinist Scots in the Gaelic heart of the north, where Hugh O’Neill’s rebellion had recruited so many and failed so miserably in the 1590s. For the Irish people, all things English—including Protestantism—were thus impossibly tainted. Reformed religion was part of a foreign attack on Irish identity. The aes dána, so effectively enrolled for Protestantism in Scotland, became the voice of Ireland’s vigorous, irretrievably Catholic identity. In their writings we find a startling image of the Reformation’s failure in Ireland: by 1600 the usual Gaelic word for “Protestant” became albanac´ or sasanac´—“Scot” or “Englishman.””

- Margo Todd, “A People’s Reformation?” in Reformation Christianity

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Hot Enby Language Summer: Final Review

Me? Finishing a langblr challenge?? Let alone a challenge that I set for myself??? No one is more surprised than I am.

🇫🇷 French

Reach B1 - hahahaha nope <3 however my realisation about language levels earlier in the summer was really important so I'm not annoyed at all about not reaching this goal

Confidently conjugate regular -ir and -re verbs in the present tense - yeah :D

Confidently conjugate regular verbs in the imperfect tense - yep 😌

Listen to French music once a week - I completely forgot my playlists existed to be honest so I haven't completed any of my music goals but ah well

🇮🇪 Irish

Complete at least one online course from Dublin City University - yee

Be able to speak and write basic sentences - very surprisingly yes, it may only be "dia duit, Ellis is ainm dom, is maith liom arán, itheann tú anraith" etc but I couldn't even form those sorts of sentences myself before this challenge so I'm really proud of myself!!

(translation of above - hello, my name is Ellis, I like bread, you eat soup)

Listen to Irish Traditional music at least once a week - no

🇩🇪 German

Work through German in 3 Months - no, I got to like week 5 before gently setting it aside, but plurals aren't as terrifying as before so progress?

Be able to speak and write basic sentences - ehhhhhh no, if I'd kept up with my book then maybe but it's been so long since I've worked on German that I can't remember much, the book was pretty heavily grammar focused at the beginning anyway

Listen to German music at least once a week - no

🇷🇺 Russian

Learn the pronunciation - sort of? I don't know any of the exceptions but I could make a good attempt if I tried to pronounce a written word

Complete first 2 units/8 lessons in my book - no

Listen to Russian music at least once a week - no

🇳🇱 Dutch

Complete online course - no, by the time the course started I realised that I just didn't vibe with Dutch enough to learn it

Languages I dabbled in that weren't part of the challenge - Spanish, Japanese, Latin, Arabic

Overall despite not meeting many of my goals I've definitely improved my general language skills this summer and I'm really happy with the progress I've made :D