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Shay O Connor (Unregistered Guest)
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| | Posted on Thursday, October 16, 2008 - 04:46 pm: |   
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DOes anyone know how to say
'the power of now'
as ghaeilge? |
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Dennis
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Username: Dennis
Post Number: 4197
Registered: 02-2005
| | Posted on Friday, October 17, 2008 - 12:23 am: |
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cumhacht an lae inniu = the power of today
cumhacht an ama i láthair = the power of the present time
... cibé is ciall leis an abair i mBéarla! (... whatever the English sentence means!)
You can talk about "the now" in English, but "anois" (= now) is simply never a noun in Irish, so an exact (or is that an evocatively fuzzy?) translation is not possible.
"An seanchas gearr,
an seanchas is fearr."
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Tomás_Ó_hÉilidhe
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Username: Tomás_Ó_hÉilidhe
Post Number: 100
Registered: 05-2008
| | Posted on Friday, October 17, 2008 - 01:16 am: |
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I presume the context would be something like:
-Man we should really do something about all the graffiti on the wall.
-Like what?
-I don't know, let's go down and stake the place out to see who's doing it.
-Ahhh some other time.
-No, use the power of now!
That's the best I can do in fifteen seconds.
Anyway, my own translation would be "Cumhacht na hUaire Anois!" |
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