Bambie Thug Eurovision and anti-war ogham

Fun activity: I was thinking of getting people to decode Bambie Thug's ogham. Might be quite a bit too much for younger ones ? 😀 But fun and perhaps mind opening for older ? :-7 😮 pushing boundaries too much? :-p Should not have to be, but possibly wiser(and more boring) to be a bit careful around this.

Note to self correct pronouns for Bambie Thug are they/them/fae. :-) Well done to RTE newsreaders last night getting them right.

Accidental discovery of another "fun" activity: in blog html css how to rotate ogham script. :-p Holy God. jaypers. Down a twisty tight rabbit hole there we went!

In the News ...

https://www.rte.ie/entertainment/2024/0508/1447898-eurovision-ogham/ Bambie Thug changed Ogham message after EBU 'order'

https://www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/artsandculture/arid-41390479.html

https://eurovision.tv/participant/bambie-thug-2024 Official Eurovision site image has the "ceasefire" ogham.

https://twitter.com/MarkAgitprop/status/1787754522196017368 Humm, Republican Irish twitter account, some haters in the comments, #WereNotInKansasAnymore

https://twitter.com/PantiBliss/status/1787971762430374144 Good one for a walking debate sometime.

Tweeting ogham and tuathal/deisal

https://twitter.com/WeirdAndWindy/status/1788654760377073873

Fabulous stuff from #BambieThug @Gaeilgeoirí please be kind in case of errors! ᚛ᚉᚑᚏᚑᚅᚐᚔᚌᚆ ᚐᚅ ᚉᚐᚔᚂᚂᚓᚐᚉᚆ᚜ corónaigh an cailleach = crown the witch. #Eurovision2024 #Ireland #CrownTheWitch #BambieThug #Eurovision

Please rotate your screen widdershins(tuathail) or your head in the opposite direction(deiseal) to enjoy the most optimal reading direction for the ogham. ᚛ᚉᚑᚏᚑᚅᚐᚔᚌᚆ ᚐᚅ ᚉᚐᚔᚂᚂᚓᚐᚉᚆ᚜

Cool how Irish has separate words for clockwise and widdershins/sinister (not that English is short of them). Deiseal related to ar deis on the right. Ar deis, ar clé on the right, on the left. Tuathal related to tuath - the people, the tribe, the territory. https://www.teanglann.ie/en/fgb/clockwise https://www.teanglann.ie/en/fgb/clockwise

tuathal, "Direction against the sun, wrong direction" "turned the wrong way" "in disorder" "~ a dhéanamh, to make a mistake, to blunder." Somewhat sinister indeed. https://www.teanglann.ie/en/fgb/tuathal

https://www.teanglann.ie/en/fgb/tuath

The ogham used ...

Face: ceasefire ogham.co

Leg: Saoirse don Phalestine ogham.co

Face: Crown the Witch ogham.co

ceasefire	Saoirse don Phalestine (hmm, could be an e too many there on the end :-p	Crown The Witch	Sos cogaidh agus corónaigh an cailleach (for the twitter gaelgóir hatersunhappies - ceasefire as gaeilge = Sos cogaidh)	Saoirse do Phailistín agus an Úcráin (hoy, have we forgotten about Ukraine ? (sorry Myanmar, Sudan, elsewhere with war (and people of Russia also)
ceasefire ᚛ᚉᚓᚐᚄᚓᚃᚔᚏᚓ᚜	Saoirse don Phalestine (hmm, could be an e too many there on the end :-p ᚛ᚄᚐᚑᚔᚏᚄᚓ ᚇᚑᚅ ᚚᚆᚐᚂᚓᚄᚈᚔᚅᚓ᚜	Crown The Witch ᚛ᚉᚏᚑᚒᚒᚅ ᚈᚆᚓ ᚒᚒᚔᚈᚉᚆ᚜	Sos cogaidh agus corónaigh an cailleach (for the twitter gaelgóir hatersunhappies - ceasefire as gaeilge = Sos cogaidh) ᚛ᚄᚑᚄ ᚉᚑᚌᚐᚔᚇᚆ᚜ ᚛ ᚐᚌᚒᚄ ᚜ ᚛ᚉᚑᚏᚑᚅᚐᚔᚌᚆ ᚐᚅ ᚉᚐᚔᚂᚂᚓᚐᚉᚆ᚜	Saoirse do Phailistín agus an Úcráin (hoy, have we forgotten about Ukraine ? (sorry Myanmar, Sudan, elsewhere with war (and people of Russia also) ᚛ᚄᚐᚑᚔᚏᚄᚓ ᚇᚑ ᚚᚆᚐᚔᚂᚔᚄᚈᚔᚅ ᚐᚌᚒᚄ ᚐᚅ ᚒᚉᚏᚐᚔᚅ᚜

Oh google translate translates "crown the witch" as "coróin an cailleach" URNNNNNNK(wrong honking sound). It should be something like tabhair coróin don cailleach ? Or corónaigh an cailleach .. oh weird. the coronation in english, corón and corónaigh as Gaeilge, corón = crown. Which came first I wonder ? https://www.etymonline.com/word/coronation https://www.teanglann.ie/en/fgb/coróin https://www.teanglann.ie/en/fgb/corónaigh

Ogham transliteration tools and html css stuff

Tool #1 https://ogh.am/ gives transliterated and bottom to top unicode. In .css we can see this class is defined and can use e.g. in h2 tag like class=vertical.

  .vertical {
    writing-mode: tb-rl;
    transform: rotate(180deg);
  }

Or, in table add id=ogham and in css template add this:

  #ogham td, #ogham th {
    writing-mode: tb-rl;
    transform: rotate(180deg);
}
  

https://support.google.com/blogger/../how-can-i-add-css-code-to-my-posts-not-to-the-theme-or-layout-of-the-blog "Theme > Customize > Advanced > Add CSS > then paste your custom table css here..."
Design (on blog page) - Theme - Customize - Edit

Tool #2 transliterate latin chars to ogham: https://ogham.co/ But, annoyingly, outputs images, not the unicode string. Humm. Other stuff from that website: Test test ᚛ᚋᚐᚊ ᚉᚓᚏᚐᚅᚔ ᚐᚃᚔ ᚐᚈᚆᚓᚉᚓᚈᚐᚔᚋᚔᚅ᚜ = MAQ CERAN[I] AVI ATHECETAIMIN Son of Ciarán, descendant of the Uí Riaghan ᚄᚓᚐᚅ = Seán

EXPERIMENTs

	TABLE WITHOUT ID, using class=VERTICAL style where needed
PLAIN: ᚛ᚉᚓᚐᚄᚓᚃᚔᚏᚓ᚜	Saoirse Don Phalestin'e ᚛ᚄᚐᚑᚔᚏᚄᚓ ᚇᚑᚅ ᚚᚆᚐᚂᚓᚄᚈᚔᚅᚓ᚜	᚛ᚉᚏᚑᚒᚒᚅ ᚈᚆᚓ ᚒᚒᚔᚈᚉᚆ᚜ ᚛ᚉᚏᚑᚒᚒᚅ ᚈᚆᚓ ᚒᚒᚔᚈᚉᚆ᚜ How do we word wrap? ᚛ᚉᚏᚑᚒᚒᚅ ᚈᚆᚓ ᚒᚒᚔᚈᚉᚆ᚜

P CLASS=VERTICAL ᚉᚓᚐᚄᚓᚃᚔᚏᚓ

H2 CLASS=VERTICAL ᚉᚓᚐᚄᚓᚃᚔᚏᚓ

	TABLE ID=OGHAM
VERTICAL and TABLEOGHAM: ᚉᚓᚐᚄᚓᚃᚔᚏᚓ TABLEOGHAM: ᚉᚓᚐᚄᚓᚃᚔᚏᚓ PLAIN: ᚛ᚉᚓᚐᚄᚓᚃᚔᚏᚓ᚜	ᚄᚐᚑᚔᚏᚄᚓ ᚇᚑᚅ ᚚᚆᚐᚂᚓᚄᚈᚔᚅᚓ	ᚉᚏᚑᚒᚒᚅ ᚈᚆᚓ ᚒᚒᚔᚈᚉᚆ ᚛ᚉᚏᚑᚒᚒᚅ ᚈᚆᚓ ᚒᚒᚔᚈᚉᚆ᚜ ᚛ᚉᚏᚑᚒᚒᚅ ᚈᚆᚓ ᚒᚒᚔᚈᚉᚆ᚜ How do we word wrap? ᚛ᚉᚏᚑᚒᚒᚅ ᚈᚆᚓ ᚒᚒᚔᚈᚉᚆ᚜	Sos cogaidh agus corónaigh an cailleach (for the twitter gaelgóir hatersunhappies - ceasefire as gaeilge = Sos cogaidh) ᚛ᚄᚑᚄ ᚉᚑᚌᚐᚔᚇᚆ᚜ ᚛ ᚐᚌᚒᚄ ᚜ ᚛ᚉᚑᚏᚑᚅᚐᚔᚌᚆ ᚐᚅ ᚉᚐᚔᚂᚂᚓᚐᚉᚆ᚜

REFERENCEs

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ogham

https://www.omniglot.com/writing/ogham.htm

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6028128/how-do-i-rotate-text-in-css

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