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Iâm sick of trying to prove myself wrong when it comes to the survival of Gaelic (opens the original)
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GAELIC has broken my heart more than once. This time, it might have broken me for the final time. I wrote an article in 2021 titled âLet my language die with dignityâ. It was triggered by a debate raging at the time pitting the GÃ idhealtachd, in its Âtraditional sense, against the cities. That kicked off due to the results of a study into vernacular speakers â the conclusion of which was that Gaelic would shortly be dead in its heartlands without drastic intervention. The argument was th
A good 'go mach' and what a Scottish granny has in common with Nigel Farage (opens the original)
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THIS past week, I indulged in what we, in this family, fondly know as “a good go mach”. To give something the “go mach”, in Gaelic, is to get rid of it. It can be used for normal rubbish, but around here a good “go mach” is next level, a proper clearance, getting rid of something that should have been jettisoned a few generations ago. “Mach leis”, or “out with it,” is the instruction. It also works for something particularly displeasing. It would have been lovely, for example, had Nigel Farage b
Why were Scottish islanders left voiceless over their own Guga hunt tradition? (opens the original)
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I’VE never tried guga. I smelt it once, and that was enough for me. In Tiree, the traditional seabird meat was sgarbh (cormorant). My father’s generation remembers the recipes well. It was boiled, and then fried or turned into soup with a good whack of potatoes. It had a fishy, gamey flavour – much like you could imagine a deer would taste if it lived on a steady diet of fish. I won’t tell you whether or not I have tried sgarbh – after all, it is no longer legal to hunt it. The last remaining co
Lessons of leadership have been known in our isles for decades (opens the original)
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MY idea of hell is a training course. A week sitting in the same room, with the same people – however nice they are – is something I struggle with. Being unable to see outside, never mind see the sea, means the entire thing rapidly descends into a battle: the inside of my head versus my facial features. I spent last week doing exactly that. Battling my natural inclination to do all the things, all the time, and instead stay still and think about the same topic for hours. I’m heading home to ap
Rhoda Meek: AI can be useful but it has to be carefully supervised (opens the original)
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IF I never see a ChatGPT-designed poster again, it will be too soon. You will definitely have seen one. Some of us can recognise them at a hundred paces, with one eye closed and our glasses off. For others, the penny may only just be dropping that the sudden deluge of copycat poster styles flooding Facebook and walls the country over is the result of AI. The problem is that once you do realise it, not only do you see it everywhere you look, you see the flaws staring back at you in neon. One re
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