English is hard

[Tero]

The öö is the missing letter in English, because your scribes were dim. Words like early and burly are really öörli and böörli. And you don't even get your long vowels straight. Good thing you dont have many kk tt pp and so on type of wörds.

[laklak]

Anyone who pronounces "int-er-est-ing" as "int-rest-ing" should be taken out the back and shot.


obviously.

Tain't neither rite. It's in-ter-stin. Everbody knows that.

[Cormac]

'

Frenchy with lots of Celt in me, including Irish and Scottish (ok, no later than 1715, but that was enough for me to build an interest), and since I love old Irish legends/myths, and traditional Irish and Scottish music, I've had rather more exposure to both languages than the average Gaul. Not to mention the year I spent taking Irish lesson at the Conradh na Gaeilge in Dublin... I was there to gather study material for a completely unrelated research project, but found time.

You're a descendent of one of our Wild Geese?

Your surname isn't Hennessy is it?

[Cormac]

The öö is the missing letter in English, because your scribes were dim. Words like early and burly are really öörli and böörli. And you don't even get your long vowels straight. Good thing you dont have many kk tt pp and so on type of wörds.

What is this "you" business? Do I look like a German or Scandinavian or Frenchy who took a wrong turn and ended up in England?

[Svartalf]

'

Frenchy with lots of Celt in me, including Irish and Scottish (ok, no later than 1715, but that was enough for me to build an interest), and since I love old Irish legends/myths, and traditional Irish and Scottish music, I've had rather more exposure to both languages than the average Gaul. Not to mention the year I spent taking Irish lesson at the Conradh na Gaeilge in Dublin... I was there to gather study material for a completely unrelated research project, but found time.

You're a descendent of one of our Wild Geese?

Your surname isn't Hennessy is it?

Nope, the particular anatid took his wife's name after marrying my ancestress. Plus, that was in Normandy and the hennessy's are in the Charente.

[klr]

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Ever tried putting a Hebridean together with somebody from the Kerry Gaeltacht? I'm not that sure they'd communicate efficiently. Scottish Gaighlig is close enough to Donegal Gaeilge... or used to be, but I can warrant I recognize Irish from scottish on sight, and the vocabulary is distinct even for some rather basic words, not to mention large divergences in pronunciation.

Someone from the Kerry Gaeltacht might have trouble communicating with someone from the Cork Gaeltacht ...

[Cormac]

Anyone who pronounces "int-er-est-ing" as "int-rest-ing" should be taken out the back and shot.


obviously.

Tain't neither rite. It's in-ter-stin. Everbody knows that.

Uh oh. Slack-jawed banjo-player alert!

[Cormac]

'

Frenchy with lots of Celt in me, including Irish and Scottish (ok, no later than 1715, but that was enough for me to build an interest), and since I love old Irish legends/myths, and traditional Irish and Scottish music, I've had rather more exposure to both languages than the average Gaul. Not to mention the year I spent taking Irish lesson at the Conradh na Gaeilge in Dublin... I was there to gather study material for a completely unrelated research project, but found time.

You're a descendent of one of our Wild Geese?

Your surname isn't Hennessy is it?

Nope, the particular anatid took his wife's name after marrying my ancestress. Plus, that was in Normandy and the hennessy's are in the Charente.

Oh well, you can't have everything!

[klr]

Anyone who pronounces "int-er-est-ing" as "int-rest-ing" should be taken out the back and shot.


obviously.

Tain't neither rite. It's in-ter-stin. Everbody knows that.

Uh oh. Slack-jawed banjo-player alert!

[Gawdzilla Sama]

I know, but we don't have a proper fada signs for letters other than é on French keyboards.

http://www.htmlcodetutorial.com/charact ... pp_69.html

[Tero]

The you was all the Merkins and UK folk.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

The you was all the Merkins and UK folk.

Ö Ü
å ä à â á ã æ ç è é ê í ì î ï ñ ô ö ó š ù ú û ü œ
Ä É Ê
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[klr]

Some spare fadas for Svartalf => áéíóú

EDIT: Snap! Too slow again

[Svartalf]

...
Ever tried putting a Hebridean together with somebody from the Kerry Gaeltacht? I'm not that sure they'd communicate efficiently. Scottish Gaighlig is close enough to Donegal Gaeilge... or used to be, but I can warrant I recognize Irish from scottish on sight, and the vocabulary is distinct even for some rather basic words, not to mention large divergences in pronunciation.

Someone from the Kerry Gaeltacht might have trouble communicating with someone from the Cork Gaeltacht ...

That bad?
I know I never got my pronunciation cleaned up because I picked mannerisms from people from everywhere, so I might combine habits that normally don't belong in the speech of any single person... But I'd never have guessed that the intercomprehension barrier might exist between speakers of the same province.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Some spare fadas for Svartalf => áéíóú

EDIT: Snap! Too slow again