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Re: OT: What language is this?

From:Keith Gaughan <kmgaughan@...>
Date:Saturday, March 18, 2006, 9:44
Roger Mills wrote:

> Appended to a recent msg I received: > > Cha robh bàs fir gun ghràs fir! > > Irish, since it's St. P's day??? But grave accents? Something else?
And seeing as it's a pretty simple sentence that'd be understood by any Gaelic speaker (Irish, Scots, or Manx), I'd translate it--a little literally--as "No man dies without another man gaining (from the death)". K.