Irish Translation Forum

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you know it was my intention!

Gleannacholmcille, go h'iontach

Aris ...frithdhruga ? frith-drugai ...drugahfrith ...no ....?????

mhwombat wrote:i think frithdhruga would work.

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Conor wrote:deisceart was what i meant (not duaisceart)

Yeah, I find the more fluency I develop in the language, the more difficult spelling becomes! Does that happen to you too? When I first started learning Irish, it would have been unusual for me to forget so much as a fada, because i had a mental image of the word on paper. Now I have a mental image of the thing itself, or the feel of the phrase in my mouth. A few months ago I was shocked to discover I had difficulty spelling "go raibh maith agat", because in my brain it's one word, "g'r'moygut"!

mhwombat wrote:

Conor wrote:deisceart was what i meant (not duaisceart)

Yeah, I find the more fluency I develop in the language, the more difficult spelling becomes! Does that happen to you too? When I first started learning Irish, it would have been unusual for me to forget so much as a fada, because i had a mental image of the word on paper. Now I have a mental image of the thing itself, or the feel of the phrase in my mouth. A few months ago I was shocked to discover I had difficulty spelling "go raibh maith agat", because in my brain it's one word, "g'r'moygut"!

not spelling

but i find myself saying things like "níor chuaigh mé" more and more often...

i learnt irish from my seanmhammai who's family was originally from the isle of Eigg ...so mine is completely spoken ..and spelling is hard work !!