Irish Translation Forum

Maybe Rossaí knows this book or this type of writing?

kevin45sf wrote:It's like writing Noo Yawk in English to mimic Brooklyn pronunciaiton. You would not want to put it on your resumé.

Not quite as bad as that. "Bleá Cliath" is a quite common informal way of spelling Baile Átha Cliath - nothing wrong with it. But you wouldn't write it in yor resumé or in your exam. It is not a Munsterism.

The rest of the examples quoted are Munster Irish. However I don't think 'anso' is normally written nowadays by Munster people.

Anyone got a link to Munster forms of the verbs?

dod chúrsa - do do chúrsa
anso - anseo
caradas - cairdeas
(do) thosnaíos - thosaigh mé
nár thuigeas - nár thuig mé

munster with the standard(?) version after

i would write anso or ansan myself but what the heck...

there's a comparison of the verbal forms here under verbs haha

So basically, the book is written in Munster and to read it now I just need to guess the meaning, then. Pretty cruel putting 14 standard novels on a reading list and then one with this. I wouldn't mind if there'd been a few at least I could've started to get my head around it. Ah well, thanks all anyway.

bás , cad chuige ,, mo bháis

I'm imagining that's genitive as it's after a compound preposition. However the book is full of spellings that are strange to me, that's my problem.

fatchops75 wrote:I'm imagining that's genitive as it's after a compound preposition. However the book is full of spellings that are strange to me, that's my problem.

I'm surprised there's not a glossary in the back. I have a couple of books written in one dialect or another, and they have glossaries for terms that are very dialect-specific.

Redwolf

Most of the books on the reading list have - but not this baby!

fatchops75 wrote:I'm imagining that's genitive as it's after a compound preposition.