What next from these Idiots!!

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qwert_yuiop wrote: »

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"?

Thank you, live and learn, I always thought all European languages developed from Latin.
I don't know who is on Radio Ulster after the news, I take it that it's an Irish language program. There was a recent Radio 4 piece about the quality of a Welsh language presenter on BBC Cymru, seems his Welsh wasn't great. However, the Lord loves a trier.
Actually, the posts on here are not bad to read, try the comments after some articles on the UTV news site! Heavy weather.