cead mile faltie

[mikkyT]

no - its irish for "a hundred thousand welcomes". i opened the link in anticipation only to find some other gobbledigook instead

Why do they have to have their "own" language. All the celtic languages are the same anyway! Irish form of Gaelic, Scottish form of Gaelic... Manx form of Gaelic, Cornish form of Gaelic... then theres the welsh derivitive of gaelic.

The Gaelic (Scottish) one reads "ceud mile failte" ... Hmm, one letter difference! I knew I had seen it before. I very much doubt that a scottish road sign would have irish writing on it, unless it happened to be next to parkhead

one letter and the final word is spelt differently. You could say the same about English - there is cockney english, mancunian english, geordie english....... the base language is the same but the regionalised versions are completely different

Geordie, cockney, manc, scouse... all slang, none of them are a language. The language they speak is English. They are free to butcher it how they wish, but their butchered form cannot be deemed to be its own language. Dialet... debatable, but language, no sire!

[matt674]

no - its irish for "a hundred thousand welcomes". i opened the link in anticipation only to find some other gobbledigook instead

My post here should have read: It is an irish gaelic saying meaning "a hundred thousand welcomes" then maybe all this could have been avoided

In English
The language is sometimes referred to in English as Gaelic (IPA: /ˈgeɪlɪk/), or Irish Gaelic. This has generally been the common name for the language in the Irish diaspora. Within Ireland proper, it has inevitable acquired political significance. Referring to the language as "Gaelic" suggests that the language is as distant and unrelated to modern Irish life as the civilization of the ancient Gaels. Calling it Irish, on the hand, indicates that it is and should be the proper national language of the Irish people, and this is the generally accepted term among scholars and in the Irish Constitution.

Use of the term Irish also avoids confusion with Scottish Gaelic (Gàidhlig), the closely related language spoken in Scotland and often referred to in English as simply Gaelic (IPA: /ˈgeɪlɪk/ or /ˈgæːlɪk/). The archaic term Erse, originally a Scots form of the word Irish, is no longer used and in most contexts is also considered derogatory.

[mikkyT]

My appologies, I was in a pedantic mood and fancied a bit of forum pedantry. No malice or offense intended! Darn these software code reviews, they don't half put me in a mood for spotting the smallest of small issues

[matt674]

none taken

[Heid]

My appologies, I was in a pedantic mood and fancied a bit of forum pedantry. No malice or offense intended! Darn these software code reviews, they don't half put me in a mood for spotting the smallest of small issues

I'm just pleased we could fulfill your pedantry outlet needs

[matt674]

hmmmm, maybe on to something there - in vegas they had people charging $10 to listen to your bad beat story.

For 1 banana i will fulfill your pedantry outlet needs......... starting 4 hours ago.

mikkyT - i've started a slate for you

[matt674]

on second thoughts - not sure giving a scotsman credit is a good idea....... 

[matt674]

<----------------------- has monkey shield at red alert for incoming abuse for friends north of the border

<gulp> 0:-)

[The Dundonian]

I think you are getting your stereotypes mixed up Matt. The typical Scotsmen would be "tight" meaning he counts the pennies. Not somebody who takes and doesn't return! The stereotype you described would be more suited to say em ............. a Scouser I suppose!

Where is it you are from originally from Mikky....lol.

Even when Matt gets it wrong he gets it right!!!!!

(no offence was meant in the righting of this reply   )

[DeVore]

A s  a fluent Irish speaker (and native!) it certainly does mean "one hundred thousand welcomes". Cead = 100, Mile = 1000 and Failte=Welcome. The whole construction is an emphatic welcome for someone who is a foreigner or someone who has traveled from afar.

A s  far as Scots Gaelic goes, its certainly close and I can more or less understand it but its only a close cousin to Irish.  Gaelic is rarely used here to refer to the language. Its most commonly called "Irish" and all secondary students study it for 6 years (typically along with French). The true name for the language is Gaelige but the English couldnt pronounce that and I'm pretty sure Gaelic is a bastardisation of that (most of our place names are bastardisations too in fact).

Tom.

[matt674]

monkey's not renown for intelligence (or geography for that matter!!)