The Swearing Lady  on February 14, 2007

Love it… NO, REALLY, I DO.

conor  on February 14, 2007

Yeah but it’s you, so do you realllly mean it.

“Dún an Fhuinneog” just feels weird. My brain can deal with the multiple meanings of “window” but fuinneog has meant only one thing to me since I was 4.

The Swearing Lady  on February 14, 2007

That’s the bit I liked best! Dun an fhuinneog, maith an buachaill… Tis like being back ar scoil.

aonghus  on February 14, 2007

The really hard bit the team had is finding questions which allow “Tá” or “Níl” as an answer, given that Irish has no simple equivalent of yes or no. By and large, they’ve done an excellent job - my mind rarely cuts in and says “Hey, that’s wrong” when I’m Firefoxing.
(Which I do all the time at home).

Go maire siad!

aonghus  on February 14, 2007

BTW, you do know that google is available in Irish?

http://www.google.ie/preferences?hl=ga

I posted a load of other links on the Dictionary thread, but I’m guessing they fell foul of your spam filter.

Perhaps if I don’t link them:
http://ga.openoffice.org/
http://audacity.sourceforge.net
http://www.microsoft.com/ireland/gaeilge

conor  on February 14, 2007

I knew about google and I’ve downloaded but not used spellcheckers for OO and Thunderbird.

Yeah, WP auto-spams most things with more then two URLs I think. I’ll see what’s in the spam bucket!

aonghus  on February 14, 2007

OO has a complete Irish version.

I downloaded it at home, but haven’t had a chance to use it yet. (Nothing much to write)

conor  on February 14, 2007

I tried to be an OO evangelist from 2001 to 2005 but the constant glitches moving between it and MS Office drove me insane. Shur I’m all wiki-based now anyway.

aonghus  on February 17, 2007

I have just downloaded Mozilla 2.0.0.1

Kevin Scannells Ispell is available as an add on dictionary - and is underlining all this Béarla as I type!

Is mór an chabhair é chun sciorradh méire fánach a aimsiú!

aonghus  on February 18, 2007

I wrote above

The really hard bit the team had is finding questions which allow “Tá” or “Níl” as an answer, given that Irish has no simple equivalent of yes or no.

I see version 2.0.0.1 does the more correct thing, and repeats the positive and negative form of the verb on some buttons.

conor  on February 18, 2007

Ah. I went straight to 2.0.0.1.

I like things like “Tá go maith”