“Siobhan is pronounced exactly as it's spelt in irish. There's no disconnect between spelling and pronunciation, unless you force a different languages pronunciation on it.”
cúnla ní b moss (@nibmoss):
“GUYS MERRIAM-WEBSTER DELETED THE TWEET!!!!!!!!!!!!! YOU'LL NEVER BEAT THE IRISH!!!!!!!” (2/2)
The National: Glasgow airport has been told to act after a sign for a restaurant appeared to mix up Irish and Scottish Gaelic… The slogan on the sign currently reads “An bhfuil ocras ort?” with [Murdo] MacSween explaining it should instead say “A bheil an t-acras ort?”
@angeidheal@gaidhlig@gaeilge Bidh sin a' tachairt gu tric ann an Glaschu. Tha 'fáilte' sgrìobhte air na soidhnichean aig a' mhosg mheadhain agus an long àrd... ged a tha 'fáilte' fada nas fhaisge air Gàidhlig na 'an bhfuil ocras'...
Yeah, don't think I can speedrun 10 units by EOM, but once I'm done the course, I'm done with #Duo and cancelling my subscription. Zero reason why this answer shouldn't be accepted. #Gaeilge
@turgon You post this on day 365, a day that seems worth celebrating, but passed like a sparrow before my eyes. When I delete Duo I will leave it behind like a snake sloughing its skin.
To a Swedish person, the function of diacritics is obvious:
å is not a
ä is not a
ö is not o
So I get the importance of fadas in #irish, and the "tutors" in Irish out there, Darach O'Séaghdha springs to mind, are helpful by pointing out that
Éire is not eire
cáca is not caca
Still it's difficult to remember, and to fully understand the effect on pronunciation.
Here's another nice pair of words, learnt from yesterday's #Seafóid game:
ólann - drinking
olann - wool
Huh. I just finished the #Duolingo Irish #Gaeilge course (before the “Daily Refresh” unit), and …nothing! For an app that vibrates when you get a difficult question right and gives you a special milestone screen every fifty days or so, I was expecting that little owl to fly out of my phone and throw me a wild party! But nothing! It doesn’t even acknowledge that you’ve finished something. I guess they’re worried people would quit?
Anyway, I finished.
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Duo used to be good about catching identical meanings that differed from the literal translation. I had this #gaeilge one come up during my practice this morning. My attempt wasn't what they wanted, but I'd argue it works? (oh well)
23 Oct 1643: Mícheál Ó Cléirigh dates the preface #otd for his Foclóir [Dictionary] of the #Irish language #Gaeilge printed on the friars’ press at #Leuven dedicated to Boetius Egan #Franciscan bishop of #Elphin (eebo)
