AS GAEILGE

policarp

FTGFOP wrote: »

It read like some weird word-picture poem for me

It was a translation of a comercial on the telly. . .

FTGFOP

Oh, I know. It was just that on top of the whole thing being hilarious the 'as bearla' bit was kind of poetic.

deise go deo

Táim in ann Gaolainn a labhairt. Is brea liom é.

Seanchai

Wibbs wrote: »

No no you naughty boy, it's not Dingle anymore, it's An Daingean. Centuries of history attached to a name known worldwide flushed because of utter boggers* like O'Cuiv, who ignored the, you know actual locals. The Official Languages Act allows said cultural nazis to bypass local government laws and the democratic process. The Dingle council held a vote which had a 90% turnout and the result was over a thousand people wanted him to go and shíte and only six, yep six agreed to the name change. Still O'cuiv ignored the democratic wishes of the locals and went one better and threatened the largest town in the Gaeltacht with removal of it's Gaeltacht status. It's utter twattery like this that riles people up.

*not a geographical description, but a mindset. O'Cuiv was born and raised a Dub. Bertie Ahern another Dub is a bogger. Endy Kenny is from the country, he's not a bogger.

Sweet Jesus. That's some shite for one man. How oh how do you define "bogger"? It seems it's somebody who doesn't agree with you or who doesn't hold your own rather idiosyncratic outlook on the world.

Oh, and you're wrong about An Daingean - and Ó Cuív is his name, not whatever it is you spelt. But, hey, let's only have all the respect going one way towards anti-Irish monoglots who have their name in English and anglicise those Irish people who spell their names in Irish, as Éamon Ó Cuív does, just as their parents did. :rolleyes: If you're looking for what you term "language Nazis" (Christ almighty - how pathetically juvenile and obtuse of you), try the mirror. It will be far more honest than dehumanising and mislabelling people with whom you disagree.

There's a ferocious degree of conceit and delusion of superiority going on in that mind of yours.

Hurricane-Dean

I can hold a conversation but I wouldn't say fluent, my Irish comes out if I order fast food after a night out and they can't understand me. I speak in Irish to add to the confusion. (I nearly got barred by the manager for "causing trouble", I won't say the actual name of the place but it's along the lines of NcRonalds on O'Tommel street)

mcmoustache

Fluent speaker here from carraroe in galway but living in dublin for 12 years.

I have a large circle of irish speaking friends here from home, other gaeltachts and the "galltacht".

I like being in irish speaking environments so i do some amateur dramatics with dublin's main irish-speaking troupe and play bogball with dublin's first irish-speaking gaa club. It's like being in a gaeltacht except that it's in dublin.

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ildaite

Killer Pigeon wrote: »

Téann triúr buachaillí isteach go dtí club oíche áit éigin sa Mheiriceá Theas:

Buachaill a haon: "Trí Carlsburg, le do thoil."

Freastalaí Beáir: "Gan fadhb!! Cárbh as díobh?"

Buachaill a dó: "Sasana"

Freastalaí Beáir: "Ahh Saaaaaaaasanaaa! Dean rud éigin Sasanach!"

Buachaill a haon: "Céard?"

Fear eile ag an mbeár: "... roinnt canadh Sasanach?"

Freastalaí Beáir: "Séa! Nó, céard faoi roinnt damhsa Sasanach, más mian libh?"

Cailín taobh thiar dóibh: "Dean damhsa ... nó canadh."

Triúr buachaillí: *mumble, mumble, mumble*

Buachaill a haon: "Can I go out to the toilet?"

Buachaill a dó: "Seo dán, i mBéarla, ár dteanga dúchais i Sasana."

Buachaill a haon: "And a fox ... I like sweet cake."

Buachaill a dó: "... sweet cake."

Buachaill a haon: "And Kate Thornton ... I have a jumper on, there are clouds in the sky ... give me the sweet cake!!"

Gach duine sa chub oíche: "Sweet Cake!"

Tráchtaire: "Níol sé ach 'a' nó 'b', tá seans gur 'c' é chomh maith."

Cailín ag damhsa le bhuachaill a haon: "Labhair níos mó Béarla!"

Buachaill a haon: "Quiet, road, girl, milk."

Great post. People's attitude to Irish is so flippant- I find the whole "ciunas bothar cailin bainne" thing sooo offensive.

RepublicanEagle

Wibbs wrote: »

I'd remove the gloating ha ha's but a million fluent speakers is an utterly daft pie in the sky number. Typical of the dreamland that some Gaelgoiri live in. And a disservice to the language to boot. One chap tried this "stat" out http://www.guardian.co.uk/travel/2007/jan/05/ireland.features Didn't really work out for him, though he saw hope with the resurgence of Gaelscoils. You can ignore the census figures as self reported bullshít. It's about as useful a statistic as the all men online have 9 inch mickeys one. Riding the vast majority of the latter will leave you dissapointed as will trying a full on convo as Gaelige with the majority of Irish people.

No. My family have lived in Dublin for many many generations and haven't spoken the language in the same many generations. Many people around this nation of ours would be similar in their distance from it. It's a long long time since this nation were all of one voice in the words on our tongues. Are you ashamed you can't speak or read the highly sophisticated Bardic or Old Irish? Cos I'll bet a large lump of airgead you can't.

If you are fluent and drenched in the language I say fair play and keep it alive and grow it in the mouths of your children. I'll support you in that, but do not take the piss out of the rest of us, because we walk a different linguistic road going in the same direction.

Quite frankly how dare you remotely apportion shame to the rest of us. Many of our non Irish speaking ancestors fought and died for this nation, while many of our Irish speakers hid behind their mothers skirts safe in the hinterland. How dare you relegate us as lesser because we don't belong to a narrow "up for the match" parish pump definition of what you think it is to be Irish.

Wow.....someone has an inferiority complex.