[irishpolyglot]

Hi there Hacker News! Thanks for the interest in my article :) My site went down an hour or so ago because I'm making database changes - I'm actually HN proof, since I had an article do very well here years ago that is much more positive than the one linked to this time. Check it out: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2780067

Some of you might have noticed that I changed the post title - this was coincidentally something I was doing just before I found out HN was linking to me. This article of mine from years ago sends me lots of traffic, but I do wish that my less controversial articles encouraging language learning would get more exposure too ;)

Along those lines, I hope you'll check out my TEDx talk (60k+ views): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0x2_kWRB8-A

Thanks for all the comments, and I hope not too many arguments come about! I was only thinking out loud in that post, as you can see written at the end.

I loved the new readers I got from HN when my Life Lessons post went viral here, so I hope a few of you will stick around. Thanks again!