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March 15 2010, 0:29 AM

i really really need the saying "without respect you have nothing" translated !! if you could email me the translation please do it would be much appreciated!! lady_archer689@yahoo.com

thank you so MUCH!!

-<3 Alicia

March 15 2010, 0:47 AM

Tá tada agat gan mheas

Wait for more input, and we don't do translations by e-mail for your own safety. Wouldn't you prefer loads of confirmations by people instead of just one?

March 15 2010, 15:02 PM

FWIW, I remember learning at some point that in Irish, you shouldn't say that you have nothing, because that's illogical -- how can you have nothing? Instead you should say you don't have anything. So I would suggest:

Níl a dhath agat gan mheas.
You don't have anything without respect.

March 16 2010, 16:11 PM

trueee but im a lil confused haha

Tá tada agat gan mheas means without respect you have nothing?

and why not "you have nothing without respect" ???

- <3 Alicia

March 16 2010, 16:59 PM

I don't think "Tá tada agat gan mheas" is the right way to say it, as I explained above, but if it were, it would mean "You have nothing without respect". To reverse it, we should really put a comma between the two clauses, as in English.

Níl a dhath agat gan mheas.
You don't have anything without respect.

Gan mheas, níl a dhath agat.
Without respect, you don't have anything.

...but I think the first way sounds better in Irish.

March 17 2010, 1:09 AM

FWIW, I remember learning at some point that in Irish, you shouldn't say that you have nothing, because that's illogical -- how can you have nothing? Instead you should say you don't have anything. So I would suggest:

A chara

Tá mé thréis ceist a chur ar dhuine an-eolach faoin nGaeilge agus dúirt sé gur féidir ''tada'' a úsáid ach bheadh sé níos fearr le ''níl'' a rá in áit Tá, mar sin: Níl tada agat gan meas

Agus cheap sé gurbh fhearr leis ''meas'' a úsáid gan séimhiú.

Ní thuigeadh chuile dhuine ''a dhath'' ach daoine in iarthuaisceart Dhún na nGall.

March 17 2010, 17:32 PM

Benjamin wrote:Níl tada agat gan meas

I can confirm this.

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