Re: Gaelic or what?

I used lingo, cause it is easier to type on the key board versus
language, which you have to use the whole keyboard to type it
in..And it is possibly a natural outgrowth of latins Lingua? I
could use Lingua and be less offensive, it is easier to type on
the key board..

Irish, but isn't it one of several languages called collectively
Gaelic? To include Scot Gaelic, Manx, and New Foundland Irish..
But heh, learned the hard way, when visiting Northern Ireland,
they can be very intense and a bit mental..

Erse, Ireland, Eire and like all come from, or so the story goes
back when the Irish (Miliesians or ..) came to Ireland, and made
some pact with a goddes and her sisters.  There was three
goddesses, and I forget all three of their names..

Nut okay, will work on that, but for the most part, leaving it
all alone.. Sorry, like to learn a lingua where people are a bit
let offensive..

Sally, you know of the gaeILGE-B@LISTSERV.HEANET.IE list by
chance?

Mike


----- Original Message -----
From: "R A Brown" <ray@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Monday, March 13, 2006 11:58 PM
Subject: Re: Gaelic or what?


> Michael Adams wrote:
> > Got tongue whipped cause I called Irish as Irish Gaelic,
>
> IME the Irish do like their national language to be called
'Irish',
> which seems reasonable to me.
>
> > as well as called in a Lingo,
>
> As I have pointed out before now, in some (many?) parts of the
English
> speaking world, 'lingo' has a derogatory meaning. It suggests
that one
> despises the language.
>
> > or called it Erse Gaelic.. Claimed that
> > Erse is like being called the N word or like..
>
> I am afraid you guilty on two accounts there: firstly the term
'Erse'
> was applied by the English to _Scots_ Gaelic, not to Irish.
Secondly,
> yes, it was deliberately offensive. It dates back to the time
of the
> Jacobite rebellions when the English, aided & abetted by Scots
> Lowlanders, attempted to eradicate Highland culture.
>
> I do appreciate that you made these 'transgressions' quite
innocently.
> But I hope the above explains why they caused offense.
> ===================================
>
> Sally Caves wrote:

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