Balipio wrote:
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First panel:
áit. (
Ait is a different word that means "odd".)
Le is not a leniting preposition.
Second panel:
Ghealach is incorrect. The genitive of
gealach is
gealaí. Plus the article needs to come in the middle, i.e.
Madra na Gealaí "the Dog of the Moon". If you're referencing the
astronomical phenomenon then the Irish for that is
gealach bréige "false moon".
It looks like a
de is missing after
tír, otherwise all those nouns should be in the genitive plural (which is generally identical to the nominative singular for the masculine first declension). Speaking of the genitive,
seamair should be
seimre.
Third panel: The Irish says, "Look at every sheep!" which I don't think is what you intended. I would translate "Look at all the sheep!" as
Féach ar na caoirigh go léir!Fourth and fifth panel:
Bheith ag imirt and
bheith ag súgradh literally mean "be playing" rather than "play". Not wrong, but not the same as the English (and not really necessary).
Sixth panel: I've already discussed the problems with
iarracht and
tréad in this construction.
Tréadaíocht exists as a verbal noun, but there is no corresponding verb stem. My dictionary gives
aoirigh (from
aoire "shepherd") as a verb meaning "herd", but I can't find any actual examples of its use.
Rather than having me go ahead and fisk the last comic now, why don't you first have at go at revising it applying everything I've told you about already? Here's a couple of pointers:
1.
Don't translate every word. I don't just mean don't translate word-for-word (which is itself very sound advice), I mean that not every English expression has to have its equivalent in the Irish. We use a lot of filler words (notably "so"), some of which are best left out in translation.
2.
What's idiomatic in Irish isn't in English and vice-versa. Building on point (1), it's not enough to write out the English and then try to put it into Irish. As much as possible, you need to compose the English with the Irish version in mind (with the ultimate goal of composing entirely in Irish). This means remembering that what is the most natural or common way to phrase something in English may be awkward or unusual in Irish.
Take for example the sentence
Tá an áit seo cosúil le brionglóid. It's understandable, but native Irish idiom prefers constructions of the sort which could be rendered literally into English as "There's an appearance of a dream on this place". (See how odd that sounds?)