Ready! Player 31@lemmy.worldM to Microblog Memes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2年前Irish Nameslemmy.worldimagemessage-square21fedilinkarrow-up1310arrow-down15file-text
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minus-squarejan teli@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12·2年前Damn I thought english was bad. How do you get neeve from niamh?
minus-squarejavasux@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up30·2年前Irish spelling rules are actually very internally consistent, they just don’t use the Latin alphabet the same way that English does. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_orthography
minus-squarejan teli@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·2年前Oh I thought they meant irish as in irish english (the dialect, like how I speak australian english)
minus-squareCheems@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·2年前A lot of people think that Gaelic is what Irish actually is. Which they are two different languages
minus-squareReady! Player 31@lemmy.worldOPMlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13arrow-down2·2年前Because Irish is literally a different language. You wouldn’t ask the same thing about French or Vietnamese or whatever.
minus-squarejan teli@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2年前Yeah I know lol, I was thinking irish english
minus-squarethemeatbridge@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·2年前Because “v” isn’t a letter in Irish, but it is a phoneme approximated by “mh” or “bh.”
Damn I thought english was bad. How do you get neeve from niamh?
Irish spelling rules are actually very internally consistent, they just don’t use the Latin alphabet the same way that English does. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_orthography
Oh I thought they meant irish as in irish english (the dialect, like how I speak australian english)
A lot of people think that Gaelic is what Irish actually is. Which they are two different languages
Because Irish is literally a different language. You wouldn’t ask the same thing about French or Vietnamese or whatever.
Yeah I know lol, I was thinking irish english
Because “v” isn’t a letter in Irish, but it is a phoneme approximated by “mh” or “bh.”