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Originally Posted by Trollheart
Oh it's a ****ing awful language, and SO hard to learn! I mean, it follows none of the usual rules of the other languages. We don't, for instance, have "male" or "female" nouns; there's no definite article (it's madra, the dog, as well as madra, A dog); plurals are made by adding usually "ai" to the end of a word - cluasa for ear is cluasai for ears) and we have ridiculously long words for really short English ones (gluastain for car, buachaill for boy). Just drives you crazy. I'd hate not to be Irish and trying to learn it.
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I went to a night class that was an introduction to Gaelic. The first half was on spelling and pronunciation and the other other half was on phrases. All I remember is
Dia dhuit but I haven't meet anyone Irish who understand that phrase. the language is filled with odd rules like Maureen becomes [Waureen] in the genitive or dative case or something like that. And another thing I learn which I thought was interesting no one in Ireland is called Erin or Colleen. Oh yeah one more thing the "h" makes the letter before it silent, the "h" replace the diacritic circle on top of letter to mark consonances that had stopped being pronounce.
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Originally Posted by mord
Actually, I like you a lot, Nea. That's why I treat you like ****. It's the MB way.
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