fossilesque to LinguisticsEnglish · 8 months agoIrish names you’re probably saying wrong and how to pronounce them | CNNedition.cnn.comexternal-linkmessage-square2fedilinkarrow-up142arrow-down14
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minus-squareParagonelinkfedilinkarrow-up0arrow-down2·8 months agoSo, basically, written Irish isn’t so much a language, as, rather, a form of encryption somehow devised by the Irish to prohibit communication? Phil Bolger was right: whomever devised such spellings, to “represent” Irish speech, deserves some quality-time in hell. Yeeks.
So, basically, written Irish isn’t so much a language, as, rather, a form of encryption somehow devised by the Irish to prohibit communication?
Phil Bolger was right: whomever devised such spellings, to “represent” Irish speech, deserves some quality-time in hell.
Yeeks.