Level 28 Human

Mea navis volitans anguillis plena est

[irishthings]

Reblog if you haven’t read Ulysses

yes even you, pretending you’ve read it. I see you.

[galpalkirk]

Could’ve been worse. Could’ve been Australia.

ancient european proverb representing europeans being scared of losing eurovision (via galpalkirk)

[moffiarty-blog]

in Europe we don’t say ‘I love you’ we say “12 points to…” which translates to “you are close to me” and I think that’s beautiful

[disc80s]

[kuueater]

Visit Original Link

true love (soundcloud link)

[3rdeyechakra]

[legalmexican]

Pokemon Sun and Moon (2016)

[spocks--cock]

Christopher: A woman? Kirk: A crewman.

[thetrekkiehasthephonebox]

OH LOOK AT THAT THE 1960S

[neil-kumiko]

AND SHE’S IN COMMAND GOLD FUCKERS.

She’s not in Medical blue, a caretaking, feminine role.  

Those in Gold were either OFFICERS, NAVIGATORS, PILOTS, TACTICAL OFFICERS, or WEAPONS SPECIALISTS.  

[wetwareproblem]

This is the Kirk everyone likes to forget.

[vegaofthelyre]

[dorothywonderland]

[begays]

[cactuarkitty]

The Council: The Reapers are here… if only we’d had more warning!

Shepard:

[acidocasualidad]

[flyflydada]

[puca-na-gaillimhe-deactivated20]

There are only two genders

Tayto Crisp and King crisp

[irishthings]

i QUIT

[fuckthisbloganditscurses]

Happiness Will Come To You.

[12goblins]

when tho

[fuckthisbloganditscurses]

When You Least Expect It. Probably Late March

[wizardshark]

reblog for happiness to come for you in late march!

[saiasus]

[larryzaur-blog]

you sure can do really cool things in this game 

[flyflydada]

This is too accurate :/

[aristia]

How to pronounce Celtic words and names

Step 1: Read the word. Step 2: Wrong.

[literary-potato]

A REAL LIST OF ACTUAL NAMES AND THEIR (approximate) PRONUNCIATIONS: Siobhan — “sheh-VAWN” Aoife – “EE-fa” Aislin – “ASH-linn” Bláithín - “BLAW-heen” Caoimhe - “KEE-va” Eoghan - Owen (sometimes with a slight “y” at the beginning) Gráinne - “GRAW-nya” Iarfhlaith - “EER-lah” Méabh - “MAYV” Naomh or Niamh - “NEEV” Oisín - OSH-een or USH-een Órfhlaith - OR-la Odhrán - O-rawn Sinéad - shi-NAYD Tadhg - TIEG (like you’re saying “tie” or “Thai” with a G and the end)

[rubyvroom]

I work with an Aoife and I have been pronouncing it SO WRONG

[breelandwalker]

As someone who is trying and failing to learn Gaelic, I feel like is an accurate portrayal of my pain.

[prettyarb]

This is the Anglicized spelling of a people who really fucking hate the English.

[madmaudlingoes]

No, no, this is the orthographic equivalent of installing Windows on Mac.

The Latin alphabet was barely adequate for Latin by the time it got to the British Isles, but it’s what people were writing with, so somebody tried to hack it to make it work for Irish. Except, major problem: Irish has two sets of consonants, “broad” and “slender” (labialized and palatalized) and there’s a non-trivial difference between the two of them. But there weren’t enough letters in the Latin alphabet to assign separate characters to the broad and slender version of similar sounds.

Instead, someone though, let’s just use the surrounding vowels to disambiguate–but there weren’t enough vowel characters to indicate all the vowel sounds they needed to write, so that required some doubling up, and then adding in some silent vowels just to serve as markers of broad vs. slender made eveything worse. 

They also had to double up some consonants, because, for example, <v> wasn’t actually a letter at the time–just a variation on <u>–so for the /v/ sound they <bh>. AND THEN ALSO Irish has this weird-ass system where the initial consonant sound in a word changes as a grammatical marker, called “mutation,” so they had to account somehow for mutated sounds vs. non-mutated sounds, which sometimes meant leaving a lot of other silent letters in a word to remind you what word you were looking at.

And then a thousand years of sound change rubbed its dirty little hands all over a system that was kind of pasted together in the first place.

My point is, there is a METHOD to the orthography of Irish besides “fuck the English.” The “fuck the English” part is just a delightful side-effect.

[prettyarb]

I love it when snarky quips lead to real info.