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July 20 2006, 2:16 AM
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I can confirm Mo Shaol Craiceáilte.
Shaol is an inflected form of saol -- if you look that up in the dictionary, you should be able to confirm that it means "life" in the sense of a person's lifetime. And Irish word order is different, which is why the word for "crazy" comes after the word for "life." 
Abigeál Last edited by Aibigéal on July 20 2006, 2:20 AM, edited 1 time in total.
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July 20 2006, 2:20 AM
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thank you so much, i will maybe post a picture of it if anyone is interested after i get it done
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July 20 2006, 2:50 AM
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oh and just so i know what im getting on my arm..
can someone spell that pheneticly... so i can pronounce it right thank you |
July 20 2006, 2:54 AM
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mo shaol craiceáilte
muh HEEL CRACK-all-tcheh Abigeál |
July 20 2006, 3:00 AM
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thank you so much abigeál
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July 20 2006, 6:30 AM
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/muh HALE CRACK-all-tcheh/ It's not the genitive or the plural Abigeál... though I'm sure you'll have an answer for this one too. -jp |
July 20 2006, 10:09 AM
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Sorry, I should have mentioned that pronunciation varies by dialect. Jamesnp has Munster Irish, so he'd say HALE; I have Connemara Irish so I'd say HEEL.
That's all the answer I have.  Sorry if I came across as argumentative earlier.
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July 20 2006, 15:31 PM
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Na, not at all. Just the usual Abigeál 
Still though, HEEL sounds genitive to me. Anyway, no matter. -jp |
July 20 2006, 15:57 PM
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Better-adjusted than the unusual Abigeál, believe me!
Yeah, that's one of the things I find pleasant-but-jarring about Munster speech. On my visit to Dublin last month, Seán and I were talking grammar at one point (don't look so surprised!) and comparing other languages to Irish. When he mentioned that Slovene "also has 'caol le caol'," I spent an anxious half-second racking my brain to remember what in the world a "céal" was!  |
July 24 2006, 7:01 AM
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it just took me 20 min to find this post again,
what font would be more authentic? i was looking at the fonts and idk if i should go with the modern or the seanchló style, and i was wondering if theres any other styles? |
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