Ready! Player 31@lemmy.worldM to Microblog Memes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 10 个月前Irish Nameslemmy.worldimagemessage-square21fedilinkarrow-up1335arrow-down16file-text
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minus-squarejan teli@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13·10 个月前Damn I thought english was bad. How do you get neeve from niamh?
minus-squarejavasux@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up32·10 个月前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-up7·10 个月前Oh I thought they meant irish as in irish english (the dialect, like how I speak australian english)
minus-squareCheems@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5arrow-down1·10 个月前A lot of people think that Gaelic is what Irish actually is. Which they are two different languages
minus-squareReady! Player 31@lemmy.worldOPMlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up18arrow-down2·10 个月前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-up1·10 个月前Yeah I know lol, I was thinking irish english
minus-squarethemeatbridge@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·10 个月前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.”