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PostPosted: Mon 27 Apr 2015 11:19 pm 
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Is it possible to revive something that is still alive? (and to kill something that's already dead?)

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PostPosted: Tue 28 Apr 2015 4:47 am 
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Lughaidh wrote:
Is it possible to revive something that is still alive? (and to kill something that's already dead?)


Yes, actually. It's very possible to breathe new life into something, and that's what this article is about.

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PostPosted: Wed 29 Apr 2015 5:44 pm 
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Looks like certain people will consider Irish as a dead language until the day 100% of the Irish people will speak Irish as their everyday language.

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PostPosted: Wed 29 Apr 2015 7:52 pm 
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I think maybe you are taking the word "revival" too literally a chara.
It's not like reviving something dead like a corpse.

This dictionary definition explains it better - "an improvement in the condition, strength, or fortunes of someone or something".


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PostPosted: Wed 29 Apr 2015 11:56 pm 
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Alt ana shuimiúil is ea é! Ach mar sin fhéin, bheadh imní ort d'éis an ailt seo a léamh:

http://tuairisc.ie/coimisiun-eigeandala ... haeltacht/

Meastar ná fuil ach 20 bliain aig'n nGaoluinn mar theangain labhartha na Gaeltachta

Má's fíor é go bhfuil na húghdaráis dh'iarraidh bac a chur le foilsíú na tuairisce seo, óir go dtugtar moltaí, is náire ollmhór é dos na daoine a bhfuil an t-iallach ortha an teanga a chur chun cinn agus a chosaint!

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I'm familiar with Munster Irish/ Gaolainn na Mumhan (GM) and the Official Standard/an Caighdeán Oifigiúil (CO)


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PostPosted: Thu 30 Apr 2015 2:55 pm 
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Bríd Mhór wrote:
I think maybe you are taking the word "revival" too literally a chara.
It's not like reviving something dead like a corpse.

This dictionary definition explains it better - "an improvement in the condition, strength, or fortunes of someone or something".


Yep...there's a big difference between "revival" and "resurrection." The former gives me hope that we'll never have need of the latter!

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PostPosted: Thu 30 Apr 2015 9:48 pm 
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Aye, so far I mostly read that word in the contexts of Hebrew, Cornish and Manx, that are all languages that died and were revived, that's why I thought it was possible only when the language has no native speakers left (and that's what the etymology says, re- + vivus in Latin, "alive again"). Probably also because so many people say Irish is a dead language, even people who do know it's still spoken...
Thanks for your explanation :)

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As soon as the language became middle class also, it has become safe for a good while yet


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In English, the "viv" bit has lost its meaning. Most native speakers would consider the medical sense of "revive" to be to bring back to consciousness. The term "revival" also has specific usage in cultural context -- the repopularisation of marginalised traditions. The "folk revival" in the 60s/70s for example; or "revivalism" movements in religion (counter to increasing atheism and secularisation).

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