seashellronan:

i mean yall know that the famine wasn’t like the main thing that england did right? that was just a side effect of colonisation, england had been occupying ireland long before that and had begun to ban our language and culture and continued to do that for 800 years until we gained independence in 1921 which is why we get so pressed about the misuse of our language because a lot of us can barely speak it because it was nearly completely eradicated by the british and now brits and americans get on twitter and laugh about how many vowels are in it as if their ancestors didn’t beat us for speaking it not that long ago

mummified-priest:

This is particularly shitty when you consider the english were responsible for uh, yanno, the famine that killed so many people and was just one of their multiple genocides against the irish.

a-little-slice-of-fandom:

Actual Irish person here! Some of our names can be hard to wrap your head around if you don’t know irish and some do change depending on region/where the fadas are in the name…but that doesn’t give you the right to make fun of our names. You can learn to pronounce them very easily…but some of you just don’t want to try.

jaskiegg:

English isn’t even my first language and I never thought of it like this wow this blew my fucking mind

number-four:

and not to mention all this ‘iTs nOT PronOunCed HOw iTs SpelleD’ ‘ThEy JUsT thREw IN rAnDoM vOweLs’ from the same fucking country where ppl name their kids kaitlyn, kaetlyn, kaitlin, kaetlin, kaetlen, kviiitlyn, kaytlyn, kaytlin, and kaytlen as well as the caden aiden pandemic like, stop bullshitting a real fucking language when u butcher ur own w ur constant NEED for an “original” baby name

transgang:

gaelic orthography is much more consistent than english. like not to be contrarian but if there’s any language that’s just spelled “however” it’s english.

queerqueerspawn:

Shockingly a language that’s not English isn’t spelled like English.

famdommcfanface:

My gran is Irish, and both my gran and my mum have Irish names, and I come across a lot of this. Like yes that’s not how you’d pronounce it in English, but the word’s not fucking English, OK?

ardri-na-bpiteog:

Y'all have really got to stop doing this. Take a day off from mocking threatened minority languages. Americans and Brits have killed hundreds of languages already, this is not a good look from monolingual speakers of the world’s dominant language

ardri-na-bpiteog:

This is what I’m talking about. Why are the Brits so proud of their ignorance

ardri-na-bpiteog:

“It’s not pronounced how it’s spelled!!”

Yes it is. You’re just assuming, for whatever reason, that english spelling and pronunciation standards should apply to a language from a completely different language family

ardri-na-bpiteog:

The tea is that Irish names aren’t that bizarre and Irish spelling isn’t particularly wild in the grand scheme of languages, anglophones are just used to anglicising names and y'all think Irish is some fiddly dee dee funny fairy language and not like…an actual living language under threat