Good point! Similarly, we don't say "Deutsch" when we mean "German" or "Nederlands" when we mean "Dutch". In the same vein, it annoys me when various BBC pundits talk of the language of Iran as being "Farsi" as opposed to "Persian". (It seems btw that the Persian equivalent of the Academie Franc,aise would in any case prefer us to use "Persian".)
Cheers, Nasty (and pedantic) Paul Cheers, Paul Gretton -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of [email protected] Sent: 05 February 2010 11:40 To: [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected] Subject: [NSP] Re: Gaelic Pronunciation - pedantry warning I have it on good authority from several Irish persons that the name of the Irish language in English is "Irish". In Irish it's "gaeilge". "Gaelic" is normally reserved for the language of Scotland "Gaeilge na hAlban" (or Gh`aidhlig in Scossgallic) Csirz >-----Original Message----- >From: [email protected] >[[1]mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Anthony Robb >Sent: Friday, February 05, 2010 11:04 AM >To: [email protected]; Paul Gretton >Subject: [NSP] Re: Gaelic Pronunciation > > > OK so it doesn't butter your parsnip! > Perhaps the easiest answer is to press the stop button instead > of letting it bother you! > Cheers > Anthony > --- On Fri, 5/2/10, Paul Gretton <[email protected]> wrote: > > From: Paul Gretton <[email protected]> > Subject: [NSP] Re: Gaelic Pronunciation > To: [email protected] > Date: Friday, 5 February, 2010, 9:25 > > >>>There's a youtube of Maureen Hegarty singing a particularly > attractive > >>>version at [1][2]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NraclF8vRX8 , with a > link to > >>her own youtube with her singing a lot of other Irish classics. > "particularly attractive" ? LOL! How about "Make sure you >have a barf > bag > handy before you listen! " > But then: de gustibus non est disputandum as we say in Maastricht > (pronounced "disgusting buses full of disputing nuns"). > Mr Nasty > To get on or off this list see list information at > [2][3]http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html > > -- > >References > > 1. [4]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NraclF8vRX8 > 2. [5]http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html > > -- References 1. mailto:[email protected] 2. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NraclF8vRX8 3. http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html 4. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NraclF8vRX8 5. http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
