Gli americani che danno lezioni irlandesi ora 🤦🏻♂️
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di unsilent_majority
Gli americani che danno lezioni irlandesi ora 🤦🏻♂️
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di unsilent_majority
23 commenti
How the fuck did they get to that conclusion?
Fun is watching Americans try to pronounce Cliodhna.
It’s pronounced GOWL. Like owl with a g in front.
They obviously just listened to the Ulster dialect and were well meaning. No need to be a snowflake.
i’m not sure what’s sadder, that you immediately ran off here to post this, or that you’re wrong in your posted picture
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To be fair, there are some celtic language scholars of the highest calibre in the States, with a command of Irish that would put many of us natives to shame. Not that yer man is likely to be one of them.
lol. Post to r/mildlyinfuriating
Sad times to be putting others down who are making an honest effort to learn.
How do you know they’re American?
I think they forgot the L, if you stick the L on it it doesn’t sound too far how I’ve heard it in west Kerry, Le-our-lan
I was in a pub recently and an American couple accosted us talking about their tour of Ireland. They were saying the biggest city they think they’ve visited was Goolyway with a question mark at the end. My friend repeated Galway to them to help them seen as they said it as a question.
They then looked at my friend like they were an idiot and said strongly no I think it’s pronounced Goolyway.
People sharing the arguments they get into on Reddit as content is the peak of cringe.
Anyway the yank probably heard that mangled pronunciation of “leabharlann” from Kneecap, who speak a falsely constructed Northern Ireland mangled dialect of “Irish” instead of real Irish.
Hahahaha! it’s so funny when they try to school us on how Irish words are pronounced.
https://www.teanglann.ie/en/fuaim/Leabharlann
So if you listen to the pronounciation in the three dialects in the link they mentioned, it does sound like it starts with a Y sound in the Connacht dialect. The Ulster is hard to hear the L and the Munster has a distinct L
I heard someone on this sub use the term plastic paddy yanks. As an American, I found that hilarious 😂
Why would they think there’s a capital I in the middle of the word.
Poor lad. He tried. He failed hilariously.
It’s in the fuck URL the spoon.
Americans have this beautiful ability to be risk being wrong with supreme shameless confidence
I’m a Yank approaching 1000 days of Irish in Duolingo and I couldn’t imagine trying to correct anyone this confidently. I’m fully aware most of what I’m gaining is reading and writing, and my pronunciation is going to be wrong. It was still fun trotting out some basics on Inismor though.
Once had an American on Reddit try to convince me and others that “Patty” is short for “Patrick”, and that the correct term for our national holiday was “St. Patty’s Day.”
Multiple links with evidence to the contrary did nothing to sway them. I wonder why Americans get stereotyped so much?
Most Redditors have an astounding confidence in talking out their ass about things they actually have no idea about.
Can kind of see where he’s coming from with the Ulster pronunciation on here
https://www.teanglann.ie/en/fuaim/Leabharlann
I’m blaming teanglann.ie for this one. Go listen to their pronunciation examples. Connacht and Ulster are bizarre accents. Munster is fairly standard on this one.
I did my time in the Gaelteacht in Donegal, learned Connacht Irish in school, and live in Munster. Nowhere have I heard anyone pronounce it even remotely like the Connacht example.
Maybe they pulled it from the islands?
https://www.teanglann.ie/en/fuaim/Leabharlann
Doesn’t seem like they’re trying to give lessons, just seems they wanted to share how it can be pronounced (in a different accent to what you’re familiar with) because Irish is an interesting sounding language to those who don’t know it. This post seems a bit too mean spirited for such a harmless comment.