I love the Irish language, but I sure am grumpy about it. Feel free to submit! I'd even love to hear some Scottish or Manx GaelProblems!
oneirishmotherfucker asked: ca bhfuil tu anois, i ireland?
Tá mé i mo chonaí i Sasana ar nóiméad. Cúpla mí o shin bhí mé i gCeanada agus roimhe sin, bhí mé sa Bhreataine Bheag. Beidh mé i mo chonaí san Aifric Theas an bhliain seo chugainn, le cuidiú Dia.
Conas atá cúrsaí i mBoston?
codladh asked: is maith liom do bhlog; tá sé greannmhar agus tugann sé faoiseamh dom ón réaltacht agus staidéar. obair mhaith! (: god, this should not have taken me so long to write, is dócha that m'intinn is away with the fairies. anyway, I look forward to more posts (:
Ahhhh go raibh míle maith agat, a chara. Tá mo laptop ag an fixer’s ar nóiméad so ní féidir liom aon pictiúir a dhéanamh! Ach beidh mé air ais go luath gan dabht :)
When you get a message from a loved one and it doesn’t mean what they think it means.
Thanks to anon and noboyfriendjustsleep
I just realised
I said that here in Britain we say ‘keltic’.
The anon said “You do realise that Celtic is an English word right?”
My reply should have been “You do realise England is in Britain, right?”
Anonymous asked: You do realise that Celtic is an English word right? That's why it can be pronounced "Seltic" and is indeed why the Scottish football team is called that, since it was formed back when it was pronounced Seltic. If you're going to talk about something, at least do some research on it first. (Also for the record, I too am from a "Celtic Nation")
Where did I say it wasn’t an English word? All I said was that here in British English the pronunciation (as backed up by the Oxford English Dictionary) is ‘keltic’. Which is true.
I was in fact previously aware of everything you’ve said so far. Before posting that particular GaelProblem, I had read an article which practically word for word said what you said. It was literally so close that if I were a uni professor I would have done you for plagiarism.
Quite frankly, I don’t care because you’ve just made yourself look a fool. “It was formed back when it was pronounced Seltic”. So you admit that it was pronounced seltic, as opposed to is? Amadán.
I’m trying to entertain my fellow Gaeil, not some pedant who hides behind the name Anonymous. At the end of a day, Buzzkillington, it’s just a joke. And if you feel the need to overreact, piss off away from me blog. I shan’t miss you.
Sorry to all my lovely followers both British or otherwise who are having to read these; it won’t let me respond privately to anonymous questions. And thank you for the responses you are sending to me about this anon here! It’s good to know I got some people from Ireland, the US, Canada and England on my side.
Tógagí go bog é, a leanúnaí!
Anonymous asked: I wouldn't really class 6 as a problem, because the general pronounciation of "ce" sounds in English is a soft c, and it was only very recently that the pronounciation changed to a hard c to be more like the word Keltoi. The modern word Celtic came from the French celtique which uses a soft c. So really, it's not people having bad pronunciation, it's the word itself as for a long time it was pronounced either way. Indeed if you look it up in a dictionary it shows both pronunciations as valid.
Hi anon, I live in Britain. Just chillin here in the British Isles, y’know, along with the vast majority of the world’s Gaelic language speakers, writing a blog about the Gaelic languages. And over here we say ‘keltic’.
Sorry if you’re from North America and I offended you but my main audience is and will always be my fellow Gaeil.
Chill, a chara, it’s just a bit a craic.
Grrrrr…
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O North America. You and your crazy pronunciations.
Cheers Vicipéid, you’re a hero.
submitted by Anon.
“Ah yes, so sorry… Your obscure relative must be right. *grumble grumble*”
