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 Mar 17 2012, 08:19 PM
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I'm afraid I'm back.  Group: Established Members Posts: 3,389 Joined: 23-September 04 From: Cambridge Member No.: 1,308 Gender: Male  |
Beannachtai na Féile Pádraig as Béal Átha'n Ghaorthaidh, Corcaigh, Eireann! Tá mé i mo chonai anseo leath den bhliain. Tá mé ag foghlaim Gaeilge go mall, ach déanaim iarracht. Tá brón orm má tá mo Ghaeilge briste!
An bhfuil Gaeilge ag aon duine eile? -------------------- |
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Mar 17 2012, 08:49 PM
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 To Lame For A Member Title Group: Established Members Posts: 193 Joined: 14-December 10 From: Behind you! Member No.: 16,678 Gender: Female |
*sorry for not speaking Irish*
But happy st.paddy's day to you too. I'm not Irish but my partner and most of my friends are. Though I have to admit they are from northern Ireland. How come you live there half of the time? -------------------- facebook.com/EleanorUmbra
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Mar 17 2012, 08:58 PM
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I'm afraid I'm back. Group: Established Members Posts: 3,389 Joined: 23-September 04 From: Cambridge Member No.: 1,308 Gender: Male |
QUOTE (Phantom @ Mar 17 2012, 08:49 PM)  *sorry for not speaking Irish* But happy st.paddy's day to you too. I'm not Irish but my partner and most of my friends are. Though I have to admit they are from northern Ireland. How come you live there half of the time? My dad's Irish, and when he retired last year he moved back to County Cork where the family originates. I'm a poor university student in Cambridge half the time, and during the holidays I move over the Irish sea to Cork. Cé go tá sé go hállain, níl fhios agam a lán daoine anseo... Where are your partner and friends from? -------------------- |
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Mar 18 2012, 04:59 PM
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To Lame For A Member Title Group: Established Members Posts: 193 Joined: 14-December 10 From: Behind you! Member No.: 16,678 Gender: Female |
Derry mainly.
It's pretty funny (for me) lately (I am Dutch btw) people have been asking wether I am Irish or Scottish XD so apparently my accent is changing  Where do you prefer living? What do you study? Yeah question bombing! -------------------- facebook.com/EleanorUmbra
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Apr 1 2012, 10:19 PM
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 Wait for the uprising Group: Established Members Posts: 3,177 Joined: 7-April 05 From: In a cave in Scotland Member No.: 1,735 Gender: Female |
Tha Gàidhlig agam...
-------------------- We are unraveling our navels so that we may ingest the sun. DARIA IZ GOOD ON TOAST TOAST IZ GOOD ON DARIA |
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Apr 6 2012, 10:59 AM
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I'm afraid I'm back. Group: Established Members Posts: 3,389 Joined: 23-September 04 From: Cambridge Member No.: 1,308 Gender: Male |
QUOTE (Daria @ Apr 1 2012, 10:19 PM) Tha Gàidhlig agam... We'd say "Tá Gaeilge agam" i nEireann! How big is Gaelic in Scotland? Hardly anyone speaks it in Ireland, although there's been a push to teach it in schools in recent years and there's still a tiny handful of places (known collectively as Gaeltacht) where it's the predominant language - like the village where I live, which kinda sucks cos I can barely understand it when it's spoken by natives at a ridiculous speed... -------------------- |
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Apr 6 2012, 11:54 PM
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Wait for the uprising Group: Established Members Posts: 3,177 Joined: 7-April 05 From: In a cave in Scotland Member No.: 1,735 Gender: Female |
I was told 2% of the Scottish population can speak Gaelic, but Wikipedia says 1.2 according to the last census.
Gaelic was never the predominant language where I am (Aberdeen) but you still occasionally get dual language signs and schools as part of drives to keep the language going. Up here, people mostly speak a form of Scots called Doric - it's taken me about 3 years to be able to follow a conversation in it. I keep finding phrases in my head that sound ridiculous if I were to say them (in my English accent) but that are really useful. Like calling someone a "bam", or saying "ging feil" (go crazy) if someone asks you if they can have something. -------------------- We are unraveling our navels so that we may ingest the sun. DARIA IZ GOOD ON TOAST TOAST IZ GOOD ON DARIA |
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Sep 1 2012, 08:33 PM
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 'Trouble Down Pit' now online! Group: Admin Posts: 10,143 Joined: 22-February 03 From: Southern UK Member No.: 1 Gender: Male |
I'm now finding that whenever I see words I don't recognise that I automatically read them using Dutch pronounciation rules (or as close as I can guess). Ging feil turned into hing feel in my head.
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