#gaelic friends

[murderballadeer]

my aunt found some newspaper clippings about our relatives and apparently in 1919 my great-great grandfather was voted the most popular mailman in bayonne new jersey so if you’re rude to me consider that you’re speaking to the great-great granddaughter of the most popular mailman in bayonne new jersey

[ceo-draiochta]

Obviously plenty of issues with wicca but one thing I just don't understand is why they had to drag us into it? There are alternative english, non gaelic, holidays celebrated around those times if they were so set on the dates.

The fact that English people, who literally lived through Irelands war of independence decided they were going to slap gaelic names on their neo religion is so fucking tiring. Can they not just leave us alone for a minute.

And I understand that the mixing of 'druidism' and wicca in early stages had an impact, Nichols specifically and it wasn't until later wiccans realised Gardner had lied about the entire foundations of his religion.

(Any supposed "Scottish" past of these people is blatant Highlandism, that justifies nothing btw)

But to this day people are uncritically using the words imbolc, bealtaine, lughnasadh and samhain in a wicca context with no regard for the fact that people just stole from a culture their country had tried to decimate. Is there no thought into the appropriateness of the use of these holidays?

Lá Bealtaine, Lá Lúnasa and Oíche Shamhna were all still celebrated at this point too? While imbolc is presumably subsumed into Brigids day. There were real living people celebrating (and still celebrate) these holidays, they weren't for random English people to take and twist into a god and goddess sex metaphor.

I have personally never heard of people today trying to do something about this but I also would not frequent IRL wicca spaces. So those more in the know, is there any push or discussion about this?

[suis0u]

I'm still here just not really active because I don't have a lot of time currently and with being just tired and exhausted after work... my art WIPs etc have to kinda take a backseat at the moment, I'm sorry.

There are so many things planned this year already and changes happened at my workplace (but in a good way, I'm learning about CGI/Blender :D!). I'm excited for most of them, hopeful that everything will work out and trying to keep my anxiety under control (No overthinking!), but it will also mean that I won't have as much time for my hobbies as I would like to have, but I'll try my best~...

[rosesutherlandwrites]

Tumblr, I need your help! Specifically SCOTTISH tumblr...and I know I have a few friends here who fit that description. A Sweet Sting Of Salt is getting an audiobook, which is about to start recording, and it has a few words of Gaelic in it. Not many, maybe two—But I still want to be sure they'll be spoken accurately. Unfortunately, my family lost the language generations back after arriving in North America and my own Gaelic is limited to a few phrases associated with Nova Scotian pub culture and tourist advertising, and being able to translate the occasional street sign in Cape Breton—and that's only to read them, I would not trust my pronunciation not to offend my ancestors, if it were even understandable. Can anyone recommend a good resource for Scottish Gaelic pronunciation I can pass along to the people producing this recording? I'm leery of googling it and unknowingly ending up with misinformation that doesn't come from native speakers. Thank you so, so much for your help. ❤️

[twelve-kinds-of-trouble]

IRELAND RAHHH

[the--highlanders]

honestly I feel like I should apologise to the writer of the phantom piper. sorry king your audio rewired my brain & now I'm trying to rewrite it ✌️

[beagan-gaidhlig]

discovered that duolingo's fandom wiki page for Scottish Gaelic (what a phrase) has the sets of lessons written out in a very legible way (the list is at the bottom!) Some languages' "Skills" pages even have tables!

[warcrimesimulator]

I was about to say I wish my grandmother learned Gaelic so I could've learned it too but then I remember I'm not even fluent in Spanish despite half my family speaking it. I am very bad at languages. Anyway my grandmother did have opportunity to take Gaelic classes but because they weren't mandatory most kids just had no interest because it was considered uncool, old-fashioned, rural to speak Gaelic. She says she regrets it now. In my opinion Celtic languages are some of the nicest-sounding.

[scare-ard--sleigh]

not to be a bitch but like

[gaelicfoxfire]

When Gaelic meets Bloo.

[lavenderlyncis]

If no one's got me, I know Duo the language owl got me

[level-up-langblr]

Hi folks!

I’m looking for some blogs to follow and be followed. A little network of mutuals.

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I’m a tumblr old timer (like before 2009?) I used to have a studyblr for Japanese only, then I found my home on langtwt, the old MIA twitter community and discord. Now I’m back here just in case. I will be migrating old threads and organising my tags so I don’t lose anything in case twitter goes down. I’ll make things pretty here someday but for now I just want to throw down my shit.

[relnicht]

like ik I shouldn't compare myself but it's hard not to feel like a failure when 3 of your friends (who did a similar course at uni) probably are offered interviews for a £36k/year job when you were immediately rejected and when people at your company (you need to have an undergrad but most people have done a postgrad) get a promotion to be earning 25k after 2 years

[butchswag420]

Gaelic is such a weird language. What the fuck do you mean the word "triubhas" is pronounced 'shoes'

[bisquid]

Wait wait you can't just drop that off and not elaborate. What do you mean is there a mafia presence in Wales?? Please spill, what things did you notice??

Okay so bearing in mind that I have ADHD and Chronic Terrible Observational Skills:

I am in Cardiff

For a concert I am attending solo

Doors open at 5

4:15 ish I go 'hmm I should eat something'

Cardiff is - unsurprisingly, being tiny and yet home to FOUR concert venues - Very Busy

Find McDonald's

McDonald's is very full. I recall my last concert related McDick's experience, and promptly bounce

Directly across the street

Is an Italian restaurant

It looks closed but fuckit maybe I can beg for like. Bread or some shit

Go over

Am immediately pounced upon by the hitherto unnoticed chain-smoking woman hanging out by the door mostly hidden by a potted ficus(?)

"I was wondering if you were open and if-" "yes yes we are open what would you like?" (strongish Italian accent)

Inside restaurant is Deserted

Explain that I'm sort of in a rush, am assured it's fine

Order chicken milanese which is generally a pasta dish with a breaded chicken component

Am led to seat nearish the front and promptly provided with a pint of coke in a glass tankard

Am then provided with a front row seat to an absolutely incomprehensible series of people entering and exiting (and in one case walking directly into) the door to what I can only presume is the kitchen

Starting with the guy who had been sitting at a table chain-smoking over a pile of papers

I counted at least three people exiting at least twice without actually entering in between

Am finally brought food

It is a breaded, butterflied chicken breast approximately the size of my face and a small pile of pasta approximately the size of my fist

It is all delicious

Chain-smoking papers man reappears, now wearing a chef's apron labcoat thing

Go up to pay, chain-smoking ficus lady is now having a very loud argument in a language I did not recognise but was not Italian Welsh English French russian Gaelic or Spanish

She sees me, says, and I quote 'ah little girl lost, one moment' and promptly hangs up

I am 27 and only nominally female

I am not remotely lost

She charges me for the pint of coke but not the food

I try to point out that she hasn't charged me for the food

'do you want to pay for the food?'

'.... Not if I don't have to?'

'good'

I leave. The door is now full of half a dozen very tall very Italian men and one absolutely adorable cocker spaniel

I ask if I can pet the dog (I have my priorities straight okay)

I am allowed to pet the dog. The dog and I are now best friends

The dog lead holder asks me in extremely accented but impeccably correct English if I had enjoyed the food

'yeah it was great!'

Everyone laughs a bit

I smile and pet the dog and realise I'm now late for the concert and hurry off

I see a post on Tumblr about mob fronts and several connections are made in my brain all at once

[snaoisean]

learning a third language is so much easier / more fun after you've spent a significant amount of time learning a second