How does and athiest say 'hello' in Irish?

Panrich wrote: »

This really should be moved to After Hours. There are a few regulars over there who would be very disappointed to miss another chance at knocking Irish.

I post here as an Atheist so allow me the honour. Language is a way of communicating ideas and information and allows us to share such so that we don't each have to invent the wheel. Irish served this purpose for a long time but is now little more than a novel skill for people to learn. Very few rely on it as their sole language so it's usefulness is questionable. It's current situation is that it is something that some patriotic people enjoy learning or would like to learn had the school system not crushed their enjoyment of it. Then there are others like myself who aren't very patriotic (it's rationality is a whole other subject) and can get angry with the multitude of wasted hours we were forced to try and learn a novel skill we had no desire to learn. The reason Irish gets a bashing is sometimes it's hard to separate the subject from the institution that forced it on you. Force people to learn something they later find useless and you get resentment.

If you want you could practice once everyday where you get your fingers caught in the door and you keep the practice up until you learn to stop saying "Jesus Christ". That's if you want to of course. . .

dlofnep wrote: »

Eh no, you're completely wrong there ted.

Conas atá tú/Conas tánn tú/Conas taoi = Munster.
Cén chaoi (a) bhfuil tú = Connacht.
Cad é mar atá tú = Ulster.

:eek: You're completely right dlofnep, I don't remember why I would have written that!

Yo madra