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FlutterinBantam · 03-02-2008 06:30PM

obl wrote: »

It's a dental plosive in Irish, but in English this sound doesn't exist. So it is realised by English speaking monoglots as an alveolar plosive or a dental fricative, sounds thar don't exist in Irish.

Wait a second, I am awake during Phonetics lectures...

Exactly!! tongue goes to the back of the front teeth,whereas in English it does not
A thick "T" as opposed to a thin one....:D:D

tolosenc · 03-02-2008 06:43PM

Yes, but not the /th/ you said it was.

FlutterinBantam · 03-02-2008 06:50PM

Never said it was "th" but just used "th" to try to phonetically describe the sound.

Anaway ,as the Tuam man might say, you seem to know a good deal more than me so I'll not argue.

Not in my nature to argue:D

faceman · 04-02-2008 11:47AM

did someone text ray d'arcy this morning about this thread?

Stephen · 04-02-2008 12:10PM

I hate the way they pronounce Portaloise. Who the hell pronounces the e at the end outside of RTÉ?

FlutterinBantam · 04-02-2008 01:16PM

Nobody....but they use the correct pronunciation.

04-02-2008 01:19PM

As someone who is learning Irish, it's a bit off putting to hear words pronounced in several different ways.

But then again so few Irish words are actually used this way it's not such a big issue. Watching TG4 usually clears up any misheard pronounciations.

cock robin · 05-02-2008 12:33AM

robz150 wrote: »

Its the "Goouurdee" on TV3

Your bang on there robz150 especially when Grainne Seoige was a presenter. I could forgive her lots of things. But can you imagine lying there beside her basking in the warm after glow of a good old fashioned leathering,when suddenly Grainne say's i think I heard something down stairs.You better call the Gourdee. I'd be putting me trollies on so fast and abandoning her to whatever fate awaits her. The SNOBBY STUCK UP COW. It's GAR as in CAR & DAI as in dee. Or just help I'm being attacked.

faceman · 05-02-2008 10:13AM

cock robin wrote: »

Your bang on there robz150 especially when Grainne Seoige was a presenter. I could forgive her lots of things. But can you imagine lying there beside her basking in the warm after glow of a good old fashioned leathering,when suddenly Grainne say's i think I heard something down stairs.You better call the Gourdee. I'd be putting me trollies on so fast and abandoning her to whatever fate awaits her. The SNOBBY STUCK UP COW. It's GAR as in CAR & DAI as in dee. Or just help I'm being attacked.

im sure she'll be heart broken after reading this!

r3nu4l · 05-02-2008 10:40AM

Deleted User wrote: »

As someone who is learning Irish, it's a bit off putting to hear words pronounced in several different ways.

Isn't that mostly to do with the differing 'dialects'. Munster Irish versus Ulster Irish, mar shampla?

EDIT: Holy crapmobile Batman, a vaguely educational thread in AH??? This is the Jokers doing!

05-02-2008 11:15AM

r3nu4l wrote: »

EDIT: Holy crapmobile Batman, a vaguely educational thread in AH??? This is the Jokers doing!

"Careful now!" "down with that sort of thing!"

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