Bh M Ag Iarraidh John A Tharraingt Sa Chulaith Arlecchino

bhí mé ag iarraidh John a tharraingt sa chulaith Arlecchino 😭

What is the d' in d'ól?

The d´ in d'ól (drank), d'fhág (left), d'ith (ate) and so on, is a contraction of the past/conditional particle do. You may be wondering why you don't see the particle before other verbs, and in fact, it's still used sometimes before consonants in munster, so you get things like do bhíos ann (I was there), do bhí fear ann fadó... (long ago there was a man...)

It's not used before consonants really in the other dialects or in the standard, so why is that? Basically it's because the effect it causes (lenition) makes the past tense clear anyway, and it was an unstressed particle, so it's easy to skip over in speech, so in most places "do bhí" just became "bhí".

But in the case of vowels, because it doesn't add another syllable, it was preserved.

If you look at older texts (around the 1900s even) you'll often see *do* written constantly.

Human Rarity doodles

did you hear there’s a new short film that is GAY?? LESBIAN, even???

AND it’s filmed in a minority language?? a CELTIC language, one might say??

AND that it’s available for FREE, with SUBTITLES in both irish AND english??

“FAN” (2024) dir. by cúnla ní bhraonáin morris

watch here 🫶

My favorite subtle Fluttercord moments

His dumbass face when he leaves Fluttershy's cottage

+ His face right after teleporting.

2. Fluttershy's reaction to chocolate rain in the finale (+Applejack's)

3. The little look Flutter gives him, after he explained why winterchilla was her gift

4. c:

5. Her being the only one genuinely happy that Discord showed up//The only one laughing at his jokes

6. Staring longingly

Bernard Black, an cat beag