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Post June 23 2007, 0:24 AM
wdsci
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braoin wrote:
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!
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True and accurate on sunny days, that is :wink:

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Post June 23 2007, 0:30 AM
Riadach
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Now thats not taking account of wind direction, which is a totally different kettle of fish altogether, but u don't need to know about that now.
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Post June 24 2007, 2:26 AM
Deb
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Not quite sure what subtitle belongs on this caitagoa, perhaps something along the lines of "you call that beer? Give me a Guiness!"
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Post June 24 2007, 4:10 AM
Redwolf
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Riadach wrote:Now thats not taking account of wind direction, which is a totally different kettle of fish altogether, but u don't need to know about that now.


Y'all have entirely forgotten the full moon and the position of the tides!

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Post June 24 2007, 4:14 AM
wdsci
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Why not just get it all out at once: Irish has a completely different set of grammatical rules for each of the 10^73 quantum states of the visible universe ;D

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Post June 24 2007, 12:39 PM
Niall Mór
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or perhaps the 10^73 quantum states of the visible universe all have different sets of grammatical rules for each of the 10^73 quantum states of the Irish Language.....
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Post June 24 2007, 17:18 PM
wdsci
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:lach: :lach: At this point it wouldn't surprise me . . .

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Post March 21 2009, 17:46 PM
mhwombat
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Update: I found a reference to us (this thread) on Linguistic Mystic:

http://linguisticmystic.com/2007/05/29/ ... lectology/

Also, some of ye might enjoy reading about Яolcats.

http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=1256
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Post December 24 2009, 3:06 AM
mhwombat
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Rinne mé catagoa eile daoibh:
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If you don't get the joke, it's a reference to a song that drove us all to distraction a few years ago, about a little wren who met a sad end because of a cat.
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Post December 24 2009, 9:55 AM
Breandán
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Riadach wrote:that would be dialectal :-) so would catagóacha i suppose.

maybe catagóanna.


Sounds like a cross between a cat and a goanna (a large Australian lizard). :lol:
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