Dainséar: Gaeilge briste

"Queer gan teanga - queer gan anam" ♧ Sin é mo bhlag i nGeailge ♧ Warning: Níl mé líofa ach táim ag iarraidh.

[queer-gan-teanga]

Haigh!

Is mise Abhainn (ach úsáidim Perci agus Ink freisin) – is duine neamh-dhénártha mé. Úsáidim na foirainmeacha sí/sé/siad.

Nílim líofa, ar an drochuair, ach ba mhaith liom mo theanga a thuiscint agus í a úsáid i ndáiríre!

Is bréa liom éisteacht le podchraoltaí, ag tharraingt agus rudaí amaideacha eile.

Blaganna:

@luvnotpercival -> mo phríomhbhlag agus labhraím faoi phodchraoltaí agus labhraím faoi phodchraoltaí agus postálaim mo chuid ealaíne ann.

@inkforthekill -> labhraím faoi cláir teilifíse, cluichí, agus rudaí cartlainne le haghaidh níos déanaí.

Taganna: (tá brón orm - I have no idea what it is in Irish)

#ag caint leis an Void -> comhrá ginearálta.

#prob-lioms -> ag caint faoi mo chuid fadhbanna

(Sin é - but there will be more i promise)

[oidheadh-con-culainn]

oh you're into stories where a guy interviews two supernaturally old men about the past and their experiences of a world that has changed immeasurably, while also judging them and making no secret of this fact?

yeah, me too:

[oidheadh-con-culainn]

i originally put this in the tags but i think it's actually very important that non-irish speakers know "agallamh" means "interview" in modern irish

the text is literally called "interview with the old men"

[queer-gan-teanga]

Ba mhaith liom a úsáideann mo bhlag seo níos minice ach níl aon rudaí suimiúla agam...

[snowkissedmonsters]

Re-reading an old screenplay I wrote during the covid lockdowns that I remember as an atmospheric folk horror but it is, in fact, a comedy

[snowkissedmonsters]

And to be clear it's a comedy TO ME because I'm imagining very elderly Irish people reading most of the lines

This scene is right after a man is ripped into chunks by evil fairies

[snowkissedmonsters]

[snowkissedmonsters]

And of course:

[snowkissedmonsters]

Here's da link to the full thing

[queer-gan-teanga]

Bhí mé ag féachaint air físeanna as Gàidhlig agus bhí mé ag smaoineamh: 'hmmm an bhfuil sin cosúil le Gaeilge do dhaoine nár chuala Gaeilge riamh cheana?' Agus níor chuala mé duine Albanach ag labhairt "craic" riamh freisin haha

[queer-gan-teanga]

I caught myself thinking "cá bhfuil the mayonaise" and níl fhios agam where to start

[an-spideog]

Did you know that -igh is pronounced differently in every dialect of Irish?

This can confuse people a lot when they're learning verbs, especially when they're taught with a mix of the dialects but each dialect is quite internally consistent with it.

This also applies to -idh as slender dh and slender gh have merged in every dialect.

In Connacht these are entirely silent, so in an unstressed syllable they're just pronounced like a schwa, a neutral vowel.

Cheannaigh (bought) -> Cheanna

Bhailigh (collected) -> Bhaile

Cuirfidh (will put) -> Cuirhe

Samhraidh (of summer) -> Samhra

In Ulster and Munster, the pronounciation is also a schwa when it is a verb form before a pronoun:

Cheannaigh sé (He bought) -> Cheanna sé

Cuirfidh sé (He will put) -> Cuirhe sé

But, if it isn't before a pronoun then it is pronounced like 'í' in Ulster and like 'ig' in Munster.

Cheannaigh Seán -> Cheannaí Seán (Ulster), Cheannaig Seán (Munster)

Nigh (Wash) -> Ní (Ulster), Nig (Munster)

Samhraidh -> Samhraí (Ulster), Samhraig (Munster)

[granolagaeilgeoir]

Very helpful! The consistency of the Connacht accent where this is concerned is why I prefer it, I'd say. Also I wonder if the modern accent that's evolved in Dublin pulls from the most convenient pronunciations of all 3?

[the-spidogue]

in my experience the Irish spoken in Dublin hasn't really evolved in a consistent way because it's not spoken in a centralised community, it's disparate people learning in various places under various teachers, so the pronunciation tends to be very inconsistent and you'll see some people who use the one version or the other or mix the two

Usually just based on whatever someone has heard while learning.

Anecdotally I feel like learners in dublin tend to do the '-ig' or the '-í' most often despite the reduced version (-a/-e) being the only one that's used at least sometimes in every dialect.

[starrach29]

As a Dublin speaker taught by a variety of dialects, I tend to mimic the dialect and canúnt I am speaking to, or stick to the ‘-ig’ as spideog explained… an-suimiúl ar fad, grma!

[ashs-nerd-den]

Do any other disabled people find it uncomfortable that some of the Irish words for disability are quite insulting and clearly imply that we're lesser than... Am I the only person who would feel insulted to be called

A) Éagumas meaning impotent

B) Díomua meaning defeat or demerit

in order to say that I'm disabled. Sorry, but what the fuck, why is my pushing through insurmountable pain, persevering through shit that abled people only experience in nightmares, seen as a demerit. It feels gross.

Just say "míchumas". It's not hard to be respectful. Mar shampla "Cén fáth a bhfuil sí ag baint úsáid as na croisín sin?" "Oh, bhuel, tá míchumas uirthi agus tá sé deacair, dainséarach agus an-pianmhar nuair a déanann sí iarracht a shúil gan iad." "Oh, ceart go leor"

You don't need to imply that we're inferior. Ní gá duit a impleachtaigh go bhfuil muid fhodhaoine.

Before anyone starts telling me to off myself, I am Irish, it IS my language, disabled people have a RIGHT (we are not entitled, if the world suddenly started treating you how it treats us, you would be miserable) to be respected, and Irish cultural and linguistic spaces are not, and should not be immune to criticism, especially with how prevalent the rampant ableism is within the community.

[queer-gan-teanga]

Actually bhí an gealtacht an-mhaith. Agus anois táim brónach nach bhfuil an Gaeilge i ngach áit... like girl cá bhfuil mo theanga? Cá bhfuil sí????

[silly-zai]

Caithfidh mé níos mó Gaeilge a labhairt

[queer-gan-teanga]

On another note... Any tips for translating amhráin i nGaeilge?

[luvnotpercival]

Bhuel... D'aistrigh mé Hey Hey My My le Neil Young agus bhí sé... ceart go leor? Might put it here who knows!

[queer-gan-teanga]

Táim ag féachaint CRÁ ar an Player... i fear i may be obsessed

[queer-gan-teanga]

Ó, is breá liom an ceoil... an dearadh fuaime...

[queer-gan-teanga]

Keogh agus Conlon... sábháil mé...

[queer-gan-teanga]

Táim ag féachaint CRÁ ar an Player... i fear i may be obsessed

[queer-gan-teanga]

Ó, is breá liom an ceoil... an dearadh fuaime...

[thethirdromana]

I finished watching Crá yesterday and now I need to try to persuade as much of tumblr as possible to watch it too.

It's an Irish-language murder mystery TV series set in Donegal, though it's subtitled in English, so you don't need Irish to follow it. It's not a cheerful series - Crá translates to torment - and nearly every single character is in some way corrupt, compromised or morally grey. But it's extremely well-produced, it's gripping, it has an utterly stunning soundtrack (by a Breton composer!) and it's visually gorgeous:

This is the first ever Irish-language TV show to get a primetime slot in Northern Ireland. And I would utterly love for the BBC to invest in more of this kind of thing (it's a BBC/TG4 coproduction). So if this sounds like something you'd be interested in, please help make it a success!

[queer-gan-teanga]

Táim ag féachaint CRÁ ar an Player... i fear i may be obsessed

[queer-gan-teanga]

On another note... Any tips for translating amhráin i nGaeilge?

[queer-gan-teanga]

Idea: seinneann mo chara an harmonica agus tá mé ag foghlaim an giotár agus rachaimid go dtí an Gaeltacht so...

Neil Young - 'Hey hey my my' as Gaeilge?