corijn (December 31, 1969 at 5:59 pm)

haha this is great!

macmaghnusa (December 31, 1969 at 5:59 pm)

Good man! I see you like Dick Gaughan. I remember seeing him at Cambridge Folk many moons ago. Incredible stuff.

DamianNixon (December 31, 1969 at 5:59 pm)

lol. I thought you were winding me up. I'm uploading my version of this at the moment. Should be there in an hour. D.

macmaghnusa (December 31, 1969 at 5:59 pm)

I was patently a victim of a humour bypass this week. :-)M

DamianNixon (December 31, 1969 at 5:59 pm)

Hi Mac...The David Lean comment was a joke about your film editing. Damian

macmaghnusa (December 31, 1969 at 5:59 pm)

I was clearly wrong. This isn't the best medium for holding a real conversation, is it? Hadn't thought that praising you for being bilingual could sound patronising. Apologies. Mac.

macmaghnusa (December 31, 1969 at 5:59 pm)

OK Damian, but you're initial comments here about me hiding behind David Lean were a tad caustic, no? Or is it just your sense of humour I don't get? 'Plastic pats' comes from my old flat-mate Neil, a Galway man who never stopped reminding me of my pitiful 'diaspora condition'. You could call it paranoia. 'Never mind', was off the cuff. I was just thinking that any explanation I attempted probably wouldn't be good enough for you.

DamianNixon (December 31, 1969 at 5:59 pm)

(cont)There's NO CHANCE of me learning Spanish/Gallego as I will never be in Spain but thanks for praising me for speaking my own language and the 'foreign English'.Never mind what? You could have just as easily NOT sent the blinkin message if you didn't want me to read it. Olé.

DamianNixon (December 31, 1969 at 5:59 pm)

Hey Mac...I didn't condemn anyone.You took the trouble of translating my message? I didn't realise it would be putting you to trouble to translate one sentence. No, I didn't translate yours.'Plastic Pats'? Who used that term? You think it's a heinous crime not to learn Gaeilge? I wouldn't say that nor do I think it. (more..)

macmaghnusa (December 31, 1969 at 5:59 pm)

So you would condemn a whole culture because of Franco? Franco was also from Galicia. Does that rule out Galego in your eyes? I took the trouble of translating your message. Did you do the same with mine, I wonder?We 'plastic pats', as you might call us, are not lesser people for having committed the heinous crime of not knowing the Irish language. If you had just a scant knowledge of Spanish/Gallego, you'd understand that I was actually praising your bilingual skills. Never mind,Mac