Irish Translation Forum

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...

Caitoga...Catoga...cat ag gáire ós árd? Whats the "i"for?

Well, I was thinking of the plural when I wrote that... cait ag gáire ós árd. But maybe the plural would be catagoaí.

Anyway, for your lol, I hereby present what I believe to be the first ever catagoa...

mhwombat wrote:Well, I was thinking of the plural when I wrote that... cait ag gáire ós árd. But maybe the plural would be catagoaí.

Anyway, for your lol, I hereby present what I believe to be the first ever catagoa...

Bhuel níl cuma shonais uirthi dar liomsa...(Fagoa)

Bheadh "lolcait" ceart go leor, dar liom. Tá "lol" in úsáid i dteangthachaí eile, thiocfadh linn é a úsáid i nGaeilg gomh maith.

i like catagóacha

Riadach wrote:i like catagóacha

Dunno what That Means but it sounds like the "Cat will have a go at yeh"

just plural.

Catagóánnaí ?

that would be dialectal so would catagóacha i suppose.

maybe catagóanna.