Bilingualism is a wonderful thing. Except when it’s not.
As a non-cyclist, I am either required to do or to refrain from doing something on the river walk in Dublin. What that something is, though, I have no idea.
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Posted: 2022 Aug 13
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Load More..."Of course it’s now, when we’re surrounded by silliness and weakness and self-obsession, that a man gets on stage and plunges a knife into Rushdie, plunges it into his liver, plunges it into his arm, plunges it into his eye. That is violence." @bariweiss https://www.commonsense.news/p/we-ignored-salman-rushdies-warning?r=exstm&s=r&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
“I can tell you the fed'l gov't & the prov'l gov't publicly seem at odds with each other but privately they work quite well together. What pisses me off is that public rhetoric is causing investor uncertainty in the int'l markets because they don’t trust Cda to get (stuff) done.”
David Staples: Are we Canazuela? Has Canada lost the capacity to pull off great national projects? #ableg #cdnpoli
https://edmontonjournal.com/opinion/columnists/david-staples-are-we-canazuela-has-canada-lost-the-capacity-to-pull-off-great-national-projects via @edmontonjournal1/3 Quick, who said this? “(C)itizens, you are all first of all equal among yourselves, and your rights take priority over those of the state.The collectivity is not the bearer of rights: it receives the rights it exercises from the citizens.”
If there are degrees of evil, this is the worst one: murdering small children. May Magdalena's memory be a blessing.
11 August 1942 | A transport of 559 Jews deported from #Westerbork in the German-occupied Netherlands arrived at #Auschwitz. After the selection 164 men & 131 women were registered.
The remaining 264 people were killed in a gas chamber, incl. a 2-year old Magdalena Dora Blau.
Whither goes thou? Not there m’hearty. Well, maybe if you’re on a bicycle!
Tom
Tom – 🙂
I looked it up. Ach amhain rothaithe literally translates as “except cyclists.” Where the heck was this sign? At an intersection?
Tom
Tom – Not a real intersection. It was along the side of the road where there were jersey barriers and some fencing. Although it didn’r prohibit access explicitly (to my eye), I guess it meant “Access only for cyclists.” Thanks for clearing that up.
Here is the short version of the problematical baptismal site. We must use the same type of shorthand here but I am too familiar with it to object to our dumb signage. I will be on the alert, henceforth.
Laurna – Feel free to submit samples . . . 🙂