How many can speak Irish in AH

Ms.M

Wouldn't the lack of swear words be down to the fact that origionally the dictionaries were mainly written by religious people who would have chosen to omit certain words, rather than there been none in the first place.

Meh, all dictionaries would have omitted slang words back in the day, languges don't grow out of dictionaries. Irish does have lots of one word insults for people, liúdramán, amadán, and lots worse. Just no equivalent to "f you". Curses are actual curses. Diarrhoea to your heels, infertility for your children lovely things like that "F you", while effective, isn't a particularly descriptive phrase in most contexts. (unless you're literally telling someone to go f themselves or get raped! :eek:) Irish tends to be very descriptive in many contexts, cursing being one, it's just a trait of the language. It enriched Hiberno-English as well. Gave us good writers. English has become homogenised in the last few decades though, more is the pity.

herisson

i can speak it but not very well and very rarely.

Any time i do speak it my friends just end up talking dirty :P

Noreen1

I'm a native speaker, and speak Irish on a daily basis.