It's about saving energy and it's in Irish, so I thought it might be of interest.

Was his accent that bad? To my un-Southern-trained ears, he sounded fairly Munster-Caighdeán-ish …

(Then again, I sometimes have trouble distinguishing Munster Irish from, er, lawnmowers … )


On another note, I must object to the description “beautifully designed” applied to anything that uses Comic Sans. That’s just crazy talk!

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Not a native speaker.

Always wait for at least three people to agree on a translation, especially if it’s for something permanent.

My translations are usually GU (Ulster Irish), unless CO (Standard Orthography) is requested.

What dialect (apart from Urban) diphthongizes mó /mo:/ to /mou/? (And that's just one small example.)

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Múinteoir Gaeilge - Irish Teacher
My "specialty" is Connemara Irish, particularly Cois Fhairrge dialect, but I can also speak Ulster and Munster Irish with native-level pronunciation.
Is fearr Gaeilge ḃriste ná Béarla cliste, cinnte, aċ i ḃfad níos fearr aríst í Gaeilge ḃinn ḃeo na nGaeltaċtaí.
Gaeilge Chonnacht (GC), go háraid Gaeilge Chois Fhairrge (GCF), Gaeilic Uladh (GU), Gaelainn na Mumhan (GM), agus Gaeilge an Chaighdeáin Oifigiúil (CO).

I thought some Munster dialects did that (Ring, perhaps?) …

Then again, it’s quite possible that half of what I lump in under the ‘Munster’ (i.e., ‘all the rest’) heading is really Urban or something else entirely.

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Not a native speaker.

Always wait for at least three people to agree on a translation, especially if it’s for something permanent.

My translations are usually GU (Ulster Irish), unless CO (Standard Orthography) is requested.

On this theme of saving energy I found this link on the COGG.ie site - but when you go there you have to paste in as Gaeilge -
Pleananna ceachta as Gaeilge don fhuinneamh don churaclam OSIE - where you find among other things -
http://www.seai.ie/Schools/Primary_Scho ... _Irish.pdf

I don't know any dialect that diphthongises -ó at the end of a word.
In the south, they diphthongise a, o and sometimes i before tense sonorants (ll, nn, m), but they don't diphthongise ó otherwise... Mó is pronounced either mó or mú according to the dialect...

I listened to the recordings, yeah that sound typical non-native ; however the guy looks to often pronounce the broad ch's properly (unlike most non-native speakers).
He makes diphthongs where you would have diphthongs in English, but when you have diphthongs in Irish (uaireanta, iad) he doesn't make them (he says "oo-ruhn-tuh" and "eed"). He pronounces the r's as in English. Etc.

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Is fearr Gaeilg na Gaeltaċta ná Gaeilg ar biṫ eile
Agus is í Gaeilg Ġaoṫ Doḃair is binne

Ah, yes, that must have been what put the idea into my head.

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Not a native speaker.

Always wait for at least three people to agree on a translation, especially if it’s for something permanent.

My translations are usually GU (Ulster Irish), unless CO (Standard Orthography) is requested.