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Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1998 11:42:05 +0100
From: Marion Gunn <[email protected]>
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Rick McGowan wrote:
>
> Unicoders...
>
> Suppose you had only one sentence, gleaned from the corpus of "classical
> literature" or poetry of your exalted mother tongue, in which to capture that
> language's beauty and cultural essence. What would it be? What sentence
> sums up everything? What great aphorism makes the patriotic pulses pound and
> sets all eyes to watering?
> ...
> Thanks in advance,
> Rick ([email protected])
Here's one (from Ireland):
N� fheadar conas � n� cad ina thaobh �, ach t� s� amhlaidh, agus sin a
bhfuil. (= I don't know how it is or why, but that's it the way it is,
and that's all there is to it.)
Ref.: Donnchadh � Drisceoil, _Aist� � Chl�ire_, edited by Tom�s de
Bhaldraithe, published by Cl�chomhar, Dublin 1987.
Want more?:-)
Marion Gunn
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