What next from these Idiots!!

qwert_yuiop

Left wing? Surely left wing means you believe in free health care, well financed education, a bit of help for the low paid.
This sort of brutal nasty attitude to your neighbours is more characteristic of right wing outfits like General Franco in Spain or the Afrikaner nationalist party. "Fascist" is what it would be called anywhere else. People with cold hearts.

qwert_yuiop

tommie wrote: »

99% of the time it was English Al,

just a few words in irish to pat the natives on the head

(majority of which hadn`t a clue what she said)

If you have to give a speech, start with " a uachtarain agus a chairde" . It always raises a laugh. Or did a couple of years ago anyway.

qwert_yuiop

BigAl94 wrote: »

Here's an example (and this is meant to be serious")

http://www.psni.police.uk/ulster_scots.pdf

Looks a bit like Frisian. (A language where there are no grey areas - everything is black and white.)

RikM

qwert_yuiop wrote: »

Looks a bit like Frisian. (A language where there are no grey areas - everything is black and white.)

The thing that gets me; if you read it as though you're speaking English with a Scots accent, you can understand it!
Not a separate language. Give me something like that in Flemish, or Norwegian (or Gaelic) and I wouldn't be able to make sense of it... French, German, Italian and, to some extent, Spanish, I could extract meaning from. But that's just an English idiom written phonetically, with some dialect words. It's harder to make sense of Burns than that...

qwert_yuiop

RikM wrote: »

The thing that gets me; if you read it as though you're speaking English with a Scots accent, you can understand it!
Not a separate language. Give me something like that in Flemish, or Norwegian (or Gaelic) and I wouldn't be able to make sense of it... French, German, Italian and, to some extent, Spanish, I could extract meaning from. But that's just an English idiom written phonetically, with some dialect words. It's harder to make sense of Burns than that...

What about irish speakers who are happai to have a copan tae with their bricfeiste?

warmhands.coldheart

highrisklowreturn wrote: »

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You would understand it is descended from low lands Scottish, is a mixture of old norse and german, where these retained their ascendancy over latin by not being subject to the norman invasions.

It was the administrative language of Scotland for 12 centuries, is the language, albeit diluted, of Robert Burns amongst others, and as people have voted for it they have every right to see it employed.

Now go back to apologising for the pan-republican and left wing front.

Oh didums. Is one a wee bit offended?
Doesn't take much to plagiarise form Wikipedia, does it or was it from the Ulster-Scots agency website. It's a Dialect at best.

By the way. Republican is not something I would call myself! Just don't like to see my tax payers money spent on idiotic cr.ap!

RikM

qwert_yuiop wrote: »

What about irish speakers who are happai to have a copan tae with their bricfeiste?

Damn. There isn't a "like" button on this forum....

qwert_yuiop

Old_Git wrote: »

I hope people remember this at the next election .

Or will it be same old ,same old better the devil we know

Better the devil you know, you know.

Ticked

Since we're supposed to learn Irish because there are a few words we use that supposedly came from Irish, why not cut to the roots and all learn Latin since that's where all European languages descended from? If I wanted to spend time learning a second language it would be something useful like French, Spanish or German, not something dead from the backwoods like Ulster Scots, Irish or Cornish. Also, I make no claims to be perfect, but if some posters spent a little time perfecting their spelling and English grammar it would make reading their posts a lot easier! Better to do one thing right than two things badly.

qwert_yuiop

Ticked wrote: »

Since we're supposed to learn Irish because there are a few words we use that supposedly came from Irish, why not cut to the roots and all learn Latin since that's where all European languages descended from? If I wanted to spend time learning a second language it would be something useful like French, Spanish or German, not something dead from the backwoods like Ulster Scots, Irish or Cornish. Also, I make no claims to be perfect, but if some posters spent a little time perfecting their spelling and English grammar it would make reading their posts a lot easier! Better to do one thing right than two things badly.

It's not quite that simple. The Northern European languages came out of Germanic, the southern out of Latin (mostly). The Celtic languages, Latin, Greek, Slavic and Germanic share a common ancestor a lot further back. This means easy little phrases in Dutch or Danish can be understood by us.

Irish however is a lot more remote - although this doesn't seem to be any barrier to getting a good grade at GCSE without actually being able to express yourself, or even getting a job on Radio Ulster after the news in the evening - stop, start, stutter, stammer -boy, he's painful.

Now. Could you by any chance be referring to someone's bizarre use of the word "off"?