That one is okay but Scooby suggested that áit would be better:

Ceapaim go bhfuil áit i gcroí an duine, áit le haghaidh iontais. Codlaíonn sí laistigh, ag fanacht ar lánsástacht.


This one is based on Tiarnan's, the other one was by Taoiseach.



(With regard to sleep, your only hope is to learn to "power nap" - twenty minute cat naps snatched whenever you can get the time. No more than twenty minutes or you enter a deeper sleep cycle that is hard to wake back up from. Edison did it. Parents need to learn how. Unfortunately kids are better at it than us - a quick kip and they are reset, while Mum and Dad struggle to get a few winks. )

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My "specialty" is Connemara Irish, particularly Cois Fhairrge dialect, but I can also speak Ulster and Munster Irish with native-level pronunciation.
Is fearr Gaeilge ḃriste ná Béarla cliste, cinnte, aċ i ḃfad níos fearr aríst í Gaeilge ḃinn ḃeo na nGaeltaċtaí.
Gaeilge Chonnacht (GC), go háraid Gaeilge Chois Fhairrge (GCF), Gaeilic Uladh (GU), Gaelainn na Mumhan (GM), agus Gaeilge an Chaighdeáin Oifigiúil (CO).

Laistigh.

I’m not a fan of this ceapaim. The meaning of the English ‘I think’ in this case is more to show one’s personal belief and attitude towards things than to be uncertain or guessing, which ceapaim ends up being. I’d prefer using dar liom or, even better, déarfainn here. But there are other things that I’m not crazy about here, too, though I can’t really seem to think of much better ways of saying them.

My suggestion would be to simplify the sentence a bit, and have it as something like this:

Déarfainn go bhfuil áit don iontas ina suan i mbrollach gach duine, ag feitheamh le comhláine

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Not a native speaker.

Always wait for at least three people to agree on a translation, especially if it’s for something permanent.

My translations are usually GU (Ulster Irish), unless CO (Standard Orthography) is requested.

Lastigh instead of laistigh was my blunder.

Now that's nice. I get your point about 'I think'. As you say, it shows one's personal belief, so perhaps creidim would be appropriate here?
comhláine is nice, but is it the right sense of the word in the context? It means fulfillment/completeness all right, but what about comhlánú? - the use of comhláine seems to suggest that the place of wonder in the heart is waiting for completeness/fulfillment as a concept to arrive/to be chanced upon or whatever, whereas comhlánú suggests (to me!) the heart itself being fulfilled.

Brollach seems fine - but what's wrong with croí?

Thank you guys for your help! I go to get this tattoo in 5 days now, so hopefully we'll have reached general agreement by then. I do appreciate all the effort you guys have put into this. Thanks again!

I didn’t see Scooby’s post before now—whoopsies!


If I were to choose any verb, I think it would be sílim, which (to me, at least) is less conviction-belief-ish than creidim, and less rational-thinking-process-ish than ceapaim.

But really, I think I’d use dar liom.


I agree. Comhlánú is better.


Nothing—I just think it’s a nicer image like this, with the space awaiting fulfilment lying in slumber in your chest.

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Not a native speaker.

Always wait for at least three people to agree on a translation, especially if it’s for something permanent.

My translations are usually GU (Ulster Irish), unless CO (Standard Orthography) is requested.

So, putting all that together:

Dar liom go bhfuil áit don iontas ina suan i mbrollach gach duine, ag feitheamh le comhlánú.

But i gcroí could also be used instead of i mbrollach.




@kk - if you go back to change something in your translation or post after others have posted, it's better to mark it, usually in red, so that others have an idea what changes have been made.

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Múinteoir Gaeilge - Irish Teacher
My "specialty" is Connemara Irish, particularly Cois Fhairrge dialect, but I can also speak Ulster and Munster Irish with native-level pronunciation.
Is fearr Gaeilge ḃriste ná Béarla cliste, cinnte, aċ i ḃfad níos fearr aríst í Gaeilge ḃinn ḃeo na nGaeltaċtaí.
Gaeilge Chonnacht (GC), go háraid Gaeilge Chois Fhairrge (GCF), Gaeilic Uladh (GU), Gaelainn na Mumhan (GM), agus Gaeilge an Chaighdeáin Oifigiúil (CO).

I don’t think I changed anything, did I?

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Not a native speaker.

Always wait for at least three people to agree on a translation, especially if it’s for something permanent.

My translations are usually GU (Ulster Irish), unless CO (Standard Orthography) is requested.

"I think there is, in the heart of a man, a place made for wonder. It sleeps inside, awaiting fulfillment."

"Sílim go bhuil sé sa chroi an fhir, áit deanta fá choinne iontas. Codlaionn sé istigh, ag súil le comhlíonadh"

Féabar mac

I don’t think I changed anything, did I?[/quote]
Compare your post of 4 October with Scooby's quote thereof "Déarfainn go bhfuil áit ... " versus "Tá áit ... ".

However, the time at which your edited your post Thu 06 Oct 2011 9:16 am is admittedly identical to Scooby's quote so we might have to let you off.

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Múinteoir Gaeilge - Irish Teacher
My "specialty" is Connemara Irish, particularly Cois Fhairrge dialect, but I can also speak Ulster and Munster Irish with native-level pronunciation.
Is fearr Gaeilge ḃriste ná Béarla cliste, cinnte, aċ i ḃfad níos fearr aríst í Gaeilge ḃinn ḃeo na nGaeltaċtaí.
Gaeilge Chonnacht (GC), go háraid Gaeilge Chois Fhairrge (GCF), Gaeilic Uladh (GU), Gaelainn na Mumhan (GM), agus Gaeilge an Chaighdeáin Oifigiúil (CO).