Irish Translation Forum

XILethalPoisonIX wrote:Hmm... Irish is harder to learn than I thought... much harder...

Just take it a little bit at the time and 'twill all come together and make sense eventually. Don't get caught up with the finer points. A lot of the stuff translated here is not the kind of language we use in day to day conversation. That's a lot easier.

I think what Antóin is saying is that a lot of the requests here are for ''obscure''/''meaningful'' sayings.

Not for conversational pieces that you would hear in day to day talk.

I'm adding this because on first reading it looked as if he was saying that the translators were using ''non day to day language''.

Pól wrote:I think what Antóin is saying is that a lot of the requests here are for ''obscure''/''meaningful'' sayings.

Not for conversational pieces that you would hear in day to day talk.

I'm adding this because on first reading it looked as if he was saying that the translators were using ''non day to day language''.

Yeah, that's about it. I guess I'm inclined to be a bit obscure myself.

By the way, anyone know something I can buy that can help me out or any other sites that I can get tips on? I've been trying to find some thing to help out (my teacher is currently visiting family in Ireland, and she does that a lot so I need something for idependant studies). Thanks

XILethalPoisonIX wrote:Can someone tell me how to say, "Death is the consequence of life"? Thanks much.

Well, if ye ask me, I think for these sort of epigrammatical expressions there is no need to use the Is/é construction at all.

I would say: Iarmhairt na beatha an bás.


Some examples:

Beatha an teanga í a labhairt
The life of a language is to speak it

Tús maith leath na hoibre
A good start is half of the work

Smarty skirts

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Tell us yourself what you want to say