VideoFix: How social media breathes life into the Irish language

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The myth that Irish is a dead language is widespread. Teresa Lynn, the speaker of this talk, has a PhD on technology for the Irish language and has analysed how Irish has jumped onto the social media bandwagon. And what she found is Irish is behaving just like any other language online. It’s evolving. Online usage is leading to new linguistic trends emerging.

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