Re: Irish Gaelic is evil!

On Tue, 1 Mar 2005 18:37:17 +0000, Joe <joe@...> wrote:

>Carsten Becker wrote:
>
>> Hey!
>>
>> Yesterday, we talked about the "Gaeltacht" and the Irish
>> language, which is according to our teacher "very difficult
>> to learn as for pronounciation. Imagine, every consonant
>> letter exists twice in pronounciation, there's a so-called
>> slender and a broad version. The grammar is a good deal
>> different as well, but still there are people who want to
>> learn this language" (Obligatory question: "Why?").
>
>
>Well, because it's dying.  Dying languages desperately need learners.
>
>The pronunciation isn't hard as long as you unlearn things.  Unlearning
>is the most useful skill for language, I guess.  'Slender' means
>palatalised, and 'broad' velarised, as a rule.  Welsh is easier, though.
>Once you've got the grammar of Welsh, you're well on the way to Irish.
Lol, no, no! You misunderstood that bit. My teacher pointed out that
question to us in class. And the broad and slender bits have been nicely
explained already.

Carsten

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