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This competition closed on 17 December and the three winners were:
- Colette Breen, Templeogue, Dublin
- Conor Dunphy, Glasnevin, Dublin
- Kay Lennon, Kilkenny
Comhghairdeas!
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IF YOU’VE BEEN reading Darach Ó Séaghdha’s excellent columns about the Irish language here on TheJournal.ie for the past few months, or if you follow his Twitter account called @TheIrishFor, you know two things.
Firstly, he is really good at bringing the Irish language into people’s lives and making it relevant (and helpful!).
Case in point: he ran a poll on the Twitter account earlier this month asking what people thought the Irish for Secret Santa should be, since there is no translation for it. (The winner was the almost literal translation Saintí Faoi Rún, with 55% of the vote, ahead of the slightly more clinical Féile na Uasteorainn €10 [Festival of the €10 limit]).
Secondly, you’ve probably learned words that you never realised that you needed to know: ‘Breatimeacht gan margadh’ is the term for a no-deal Brexit, for example; ‘ceartaiseacht pholaitiúil’ means political correctness; and ‘dabáil’ is the verb ‘to dab’.
We have three signed copies of his bestselling book Craic Baby: Dispatches from a Rising Language to give away. The book, a follow-up to his first book Motherfoclóir, explores the very new and very old parts of the Irish language from Darach’s personal perspective, rediscovering words and phrases and making you think about the language in a new way.
We’ll pick three winners at random after the closing date. Go néirigh an t-ádh libh.
Winners will be contacted via email. Full competition T&Cs can be read here.
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My battery wouldn’t last long enough for me to do that…
Laughable how difficult it is to do on an iPhone. Sure just getting music on it in the first place is a trial in itself with all the iTunes and syncing shite. Android is just drag and drop
If you’ve a Mac, you can just edit the song in GarageBand, and import as ringtone to iTunes, sync with iPhone, and you’re done.
Since when is this a thing? I’ve had various phones over the past 15 years, always had a custom ringtone and never had a problem setting it (actually, I tell a lie, I had one for an afternoon that I returned when I discovered it couldn’t do it easily).
Certainly, the article seems to be making things more complicated than they need to be for Androids. On my current phone, you don’t need to download any apps or anything like that. Just two steps:
(i) Save your desired MP3 (any length you like) to the “Sounds” folder on the phone.
(ii) Go — Settings>Sounds>Set Ringtone>Add and pick your MP3,
Simples.
You can even, just as easily, set your clock alarm to whatever MP3 you want. And you ‘notification’ tone (for emails, facebook updates etc) The only thing that’s tricky is setting things like the startup sound and camera shutter sound, but that those can be done with downloaded apps and a few steps.
or get the free ringtones app that lets you create them on your iphone from your music library, email them to yourself, open on your PC with itunes, sync iphone to PC, hey presto ring tone is on your iphone
I was about to say that
The windows phone is crap, my mother in law got a free one (no wonder they were giving them away) and I was tasked with setting it up, an afternoon spent battling the phone, its too complicated I use Linux on the laptop and spend all day using drive and gmai on both the desktop ann the phone for work and give me android any day its intuitive and logical,
Ah but how do I apply different ringtones to different contacts on iPhone?
That’s easy you just do that when you are editing a particular persons contact details.
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