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May 06 2007, 16:13 PM

Riadach wrote:that would be dialectal so would catagóacha i suppose.

maybe catagóanna.

Yes And it Rhymes with....er ...er...Patagonia

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May 06 2007, 23:06 PM

mhwombat wrote:As a keen observer of Internet culture, the explosion of the lolcat phenomenon has led me to wonder about its impact on the Irish language. For those of you who are not familiar with lolcats, see:

http://www.dashes.com/anil/2007/04/23/cats_can_has_gr
http://lolcats2.com/
http://icanhascheezburger.com/

Whither the lolcats as Gaeilge? We cannot afford to be complacent. The Irish language will be consigned to the periphery of history unless we take action now. Young people will abandon a language that has no accomodation for lolcats.

If we are to address this issue in full, we have important decisions to make. What will be the nature of kitty pidgin as Gaeilge? Will they make TSF errors? Lenite when they should eclipse, and vice versa?

And most importantly, what is the Irish for lolcat? caitagoa? But that violates caol le caol...

lolcat
How about
catóg
??

May 07 2007, 5:13 AM

The Connemara folks, with their doubly-plural plurals, might say catógachaí

May 07 2007, 5:24 AM

Perhaps we should get Tadhg to address this important issue with his friends at An Coiste Téarmaíochta.

May 07 2007, 11:39 AM

Please no - the last time he did that the A word got into their hands :versteck:

May 07 2007, 23:18 PM

mhwombat wrote:The Connemara folks, with their doubly-plural plurals, might say catógachaí

Yes, that'd nail it!!!

:lach:

June 22 2007, 14:43 PM

nach e lolcat na "laugh out loud cat", mar sin, ba ceart a ra "gaire as ard cat" as gaeilge... feid tu GAAcat a ra comh mhaith!

tiarnan

June 22 2007, 15:53 PM

What's the fuss? It's Irish, we need to have a different term for every dialect! :lach:

David

June 22 2007, 19:05 PM

yes let it be masculine, but feminine on wednesdays, except for each month that doesn't end in r, in which case its feminine or thursdays and bank holiday mondays. Leap years excluded, cause its topsy turvey then. Then and only then, will it be a truly Irish word.

June 23 2007, 0:15 AM

Riadach wrote:yes let it be masculine, but feminine on wednesdays, except for each month that doesn't end in r, in which case its feminine or thursdays and bank holiday mondays. Leap years excluded, cause its topsy turvey then. Then and only then, will it be a truly Irish word.

Finally we have a true and accurate explanation of Irish grammar and how it really works! Fair play duit!
:mrgreen:

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