Post #1414681
2026-03-30 14:35 UTC
@stancarey In Scottish schools the teachers would come down hard on you if you used a Scots word, as if you'd uttered profanity. I'm curious if the same kind of colonial mindset exists in Irish schools.
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@stancarey@mastodon.ie 2026-03-30 14:47
@bodhipaksa Irish was systematically suppressed here for centuries. That was internalized as shame and extended to Irish English: I know someone who wrote an Irish English idiom in school and was made cut it out of her copybook with a scissors and bury it in a hole in the ground outside