That's funny I was just looking him up last night to see what he's been up to.

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.

Do you know this Gaelic phrase, "mac an abu"?

My friend in high school could speak a bit of gaelic. It's ridiculous as a language, especially with the limited writing aspect.

I'm assuming that's "Son of Abbot". ;) Either that, or "Son of Apu"... :rofl: Don't worry, your review is pending...

Lol. I was asking cause I wanted to know if that was true. Cause that's where I got the name from.

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.

Dia dhuit is a way of saying hello. Dia is God and duit is you, so (you're right; it's a ****ed-up language) with the "h" in duit it becomes, literally "God be with you". Wtf is wrong with "Hi" or "Sup"?

Despite its oddities and its perplexity I don't hate it. I believe it was created to be sung, not for scholarly pursuits. It's one of my favorite (foreign or non-English) languages when sung.