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Cinders
| | Posted on Friday, January 26, 2001 - 05:52 pm: | 
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Please help me! I'm doing a project and I need to know how to say "Welcom to Ireland" in Gaelige (sp?). I would greatly apreciate the help. |
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Seosamh
| | Posted on Friday, January 26, 2001 - 10:44 pm: |
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Fáilte go hÉirinn |
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Cinders
| | Posted on Saturday, January 27, 2001 - 12:58 pm: |
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Is that suspose to be Fáilte goh Éirinn?- it doesn't look right. |
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Dutchgael
| | Posted on Saturday, January 27, 2001 - 07:38 pm: |
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No, "go hÉirinn" was right, "go" prefixes an "h" to words beginning with a vowel, like Éirinn, but the É is still the capital letter. Seems a little weird at first. |
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Laighneach
| | Posted on Sunday, January 28, 2001 - 10:26 am: |
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Dutchgael is spot on, Cinders my dear! |
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Seosamh
| | Posted on Sunday, January 28, 2001 - 03:18 pm: |
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Yes, it does seem a bit weird at first -- a small case letter, followed by a capital one. A manual for librarians I saw says that if a book title has a second or third letter in a word capitalized, the librarian can be sure the book is in Irish, 'the only language that does this'. Scots Gaelic would do the same thing but what harm? The Brooklyn Public Library had the Scots Gaelic and Irish books happily mixed together but we were lucky to get them on the shelves in the first place. Now they're in the basement (probably still mixed together) and must be requested, which the library is not too good at. |
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