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| carlonove Senior Member United States Joined 5986 days ago 145 posts - 253 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Italian | Message 17 of 38 09 February 2011 at 7:29pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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Isn't it preferable to bring back an old thread rather than to start a new identical one? I think this is more in line with the "use the search funtion before starting a new thread" policy that new members are encouraged to follow.
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| GibberMeister Bilingual Pentaglot Groupie Scotland Joined 5808 days ago 61 posts - 67 votes Speaks: Spanish, Catalan, Lowland Scots*, English*, Portuguese | Message 18 of 38 10 February 2011 at 5:46pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
I apologise for that Cainntear, but I do have an interest in the subject. I actually hadn't even noticed the date on it! Tha mi duilich! (Although I do agree a discussion can be revived if relevant.) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| t123 Diglot Senior Member South Africa https://github.com/t Joined 5611 days ago 139 posts - 226 votes Speaks: English*, Afrikaans | Message 19 of 38 10 February 2011 at 6:03pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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Most people don't notice the dates. Posting in an existing thread if there is one is
better in my opinion. I guess what happens is it comes up in the active topics, and everyone assumes the entire thread is current, not just the last post. Instead of locking the thread perhaps giving visual indicators between the posts would be better. So if the gap between posts was more than 3 months, a thick green line say, more than 6 an orange and over a year then red. 4 persons have voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Remster Diglot Senior Member Netherlands Joined 4805 days ago 120 posts - 134 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English Studies: German, French | Message 21 of 38 03 October 2011 at 9:58am | IP Logged | ||||||||
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If your interested in it, you could try, but it sure wouldn't be helpfull for functional reasons. It's hardly spoken anymore, I love the sound of it and listen to a lot of gaelic songs.
Perhaps it has already been said, but my pc is slow, therefore I can't check it out. Scottish gaelic has two noun genders: Masculine and Feminine. It has four cases: Nominative, Vocative, Dative and Genitive. It's spelling is for most people quite ''new''. I've heard it's quite difficult, a lot more than English anyway. EDIT: I just noticed the date, my apologies. Edited by Remster on 03 October 2011 at 10:00am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Марк Senior Member Russian Federation Joined 5056 days ago 2096 posts - 2972 votes Speaks: Russian* | Message 22 of 38 03 October 2011 at 10:06am | IP Logged | ||||||||
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As far as I know, Gaelic words can be read nearly always unlike English. The syntax is
unusual. Initial consonant mutations, of course. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Марк Senior Member Russian Federation Joined 5056 days ago 2096 posts - 2972 votes Speaks: Russian* | Message 23 of 38 03 October 2011 at 10:17am | IP Logged | ||||||||
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In Ireland Irish language is called in three ways: Gaeilg (ge:l'ik') - in the North,
Gaeilge (ge:l'ig'i) - in the West, Gaelainn (ge:l*n') in the South. By * I meant shwa. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Cainntear Pentaglot Senior Member Scotland linguafrankly.blogsp Joined 6011 days ago 4399 posts - 7687 votes Speaks: Lowland Scots, English*, French, Spanish, Scottish Gaelic Studies: Catalan, Italian, German, Irish, Welsh | Message 24 of 38 03 October 2011 at 11:30am | IP Logged | ||||||||
Not true -- a lot of people are looking at it as a useful career move, particularly in media and education circles. There has long been complaints about a "Gaelic mafia" in the Scottish media, with Gaelic overrepresented in senior positions, but there are good pragmatic reasons for that. Minority languages tend to act as a sort of "gateway" for people to break into the media -- you can see the same thing in Spain when you look at the number of Basque and Catalan speakers in cinema and television. Minority-language media is less profitable than mainstream media, so wages are lower. This means that people tend to "graduate" to the mainstream, and the minority media acts as an incubator for new talent. It gives people more rapid advancement and exposure to high levels of responsibility relatively early on in their careers.
Yes, but it's a fairly logical system.
That depends where you're starting from. For a monolingual Hindi speaker, it would probably be easier than English. For a monolingual Dutch speaker, English would be easier. There really is no such thing as "difficulty" in language, only "distance" or "difference". 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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