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From: Féach@d.óir
Scríobh tthomsondinosp@btinternet.com (Micheal T):
>No, it's not the same as it used to be at all. You now have the
>"caighdean", a standard devised without any regard to how the language
>is written by native speakers in any of the Gaeltachta, and indeed
>without any regard as to how it is pronounced since consonant clusters
>that are still pronounced in many places have been dropped completely.
Arú calm down, the Caighdean isn't that exactly the spawn of Satan.
The differences between the dialects is pretty much the same as you'd
encounter in the accents and grammar of English speakers as far apart
as Donegal and Kerry. The Caighdean provides an agreed official
standard. There's nothing to stop you writing in Kerry or Donegal
Irish, any more than there is to stop you writing in Donegal or Kerry
English (think John B Keane or Brian Friel). However, the government
writes in standard Irish, for the very good reason that precision is a
virtue in legal language. Imagine the chaos if lawyers could argue the
toss between the shades of meaning of a word in Corcha Dhuibhne and An
Teileann.
So knock yourself out. there's nothing to stop you mastering the
Caighdean, or any of the native dialects, or indeed all of the above.
>An Thu, 4 Jan 2007 19:16:14 -0000, sgrìobh "Andy" :
>
>> Is the old Gaeilge the same as Gaeilge these days though? - My Mother-in-law
>> was born and grew up in Galway and maintains that some of the words have
>> changed quite a lot than when she was young.
I suspect the English of your Granny's time was a different beast too.
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