Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

[billd91]

I am a firm believer that Gaelic is a prank played on English-speakers.

I'm more of the opinion that English-speakers were a very mean-spirited prank played on the Celtic-branch language speakers of Great Britain and Ireland.

 

[prabe]

I'm more of the opinion that English-speakers were a very mean-spirited prank played on the Celtic-branch language speakers of Great Britain and Ireland.

That's not unreasonable. Maybe the transliteration is more like revenge than a prank. "We'll use your letters, but we'll assign them to different phonemes."

EDIT: I'm probably still carrying scars from my time recording audiobooks. We (or at least I) hated to see Gaelic come up, it was such a pain to get right (we had to get it right).

 

[Mad_Jack]

The way Gaelic words are spelled is my pet piamh.

I think you misspelled piabh... Or maybe piadh?

And, really, guys? How hard can it be to pronounce Gaelic words when they don't even use six letters of the alphabet?

 

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[Ryujin]

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I like the expression that an author friend likes to use.

"English doesn't borrow from other languages. English follows other languages down dark alleys, knocks them over and goes through their pockets for loose grammar."

 

[Gradine]

You're all wrong, by the way.

Ninja
Viking
Cowboy
Robot

 

[trappedslider]

You're all wrong, by the way.

Ninja
Viking
Cowboy
Robot

you're wrong it's
Ninja
Viking
Pirate
Robot

 

[Gradine]

you're wrong it's
Ninja
Viking
Pirate
Robot

Can't agree, too much overlap between Pirate and Viking. But the question becomes... is Pirate a subclass of Viking, or is Viking a subclass of Pirate?

 

[payn]

But the question becomes... is Pirate a subclass of Viking, or is Viking a subclass of Pirate?

Yes.

 

[Gradine]

Yes.