yeah but if you write an y, even a small one, people will pronounce "bah-lyay" with a strong y and get an awful pronunciation just as all these people who say "abhaile" as "awah-lyah" and all these horrible things

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

Yikes, I certainly wouldn't want to contribute to that!


Oh yeah, I almost forgot about that …

What abour Rince (Dance)? Short and to the point, and easy to pronounce: "RING-ki".

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Táim ag foghlaim fós. Fáilte roimh gach aon cheartúchán.

Carolina, qué te parece Ealaí an Locha ('Los Cisnes del Lago')?

('Focal.ie' gives cailín bailé for "ballerina" but Cumann Ballet na hÉireann. And I'm sure I've seen or heard rinceoir/damhsóir ballet.)

Carolina, just to get clarification, is it (classical, jazz or modern) ballet that your troupe does, not Irish dancing?

Is so, perhaps Bailé _would_ be suitable after all. I think to any Spanish speaker the síneadh fada (accent) would stand out enough to make them look twice and realise it was a foreign word or at least want to ask about it. It would be a "talking point", e.g., "oh, look, the word for "ballet" in Irish is very similar to the Spanish word baile !"

The pronunciation of bailé is exactly the same the English pronunciation of "ballet" (as Lughaidh mentioned) but only the British English (and Hiberno-English) pronunciation not the American pronunciation, which has a broad "L" sound.

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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).

Yeah, I'd go with that.
With possibly an adjective added, that I can't think of.

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Actually, a Spanish-speaker seeing bailé would understand "I danced" (that accent makes all the difference).

I agree with WeeFalorieMan that it's better to choose a distinctly Irish word (or words) -preferably one that sounds fairly similar in both or all three languages. And if it doesn't have to be ballet/dance-related, how about Grianstad (Solstice)?

'Tis probably all academic anyway. Carolina from Argentina seems to have lost interest.

Yes, that's right, if a Spanish speaker were to see the word bailé all by itself with no other context, or in a sentence, it would be understood to mean "I danced".

However, as a native Spanish speaker myself, seeing bailé used as a name for something, doesn't really make sense to me, it looks like a typo for the word baile in Spanish. Things are usually named with nouns (as in English) – Grianstad, Ealaí an Locha, etc., not with conjugated verb forms. Do you see what I mean?

Oh well, no matter how you look at it, it doesn't really work as a name for a dance troupe in Argentina.

Aye, that's why I usually don't participate in any threads where people are asking for random translations, tattoo translations, or whatever. Most of the people who ask for those sorts of things don't usually have a genuine interest in learning the language and after they get their translation, you never hear from them again.

Aye, that's why I usually don't participate in any threads where people are asking for random translations, tattoo translations, or whatever. Most of the people who ask for those sorts of things don't usually have a genuine interest in learning the language and after they get their translation, you never hear from them again.[/quote]
On the other hand, it sometimes makes us look at things in Irish that we might not have considered otherwise.

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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).

Well, that's a good point. People who ARE genuinely interested in learning the language, can learn something from the answers that people give.