wow thats a lot to take in... ok

1.) search through for my previous post about names of countries and places in foreign languages, it wasnt that long ago.

2.) If you are asserting that I have some sort of superiority complex due to my capitalisation of English and not Gaelic (happy now?), I am actually a Scot, yes I am aware that Scots pronounce the language as gallic incase you would like to point that one out too. We refer to it as gallic and not Scottish so as to avoid confusion with Ulster Scots, if you actually want to regard this as a language and not just lazy spelling. As for the capitals, go figure, wasnt claiming to be perfect in English, the question just asked me to name things that annoy me in daily language useage.

3.) I object to people speaking in English using the spelling craic as there is no need to use a foreign transliteration of a word in their mother tounge. If you are speaking in Irish/Gaelic whichever you would prefer, please "craic" it up to the nth degree.

4.) You are a bit of a pedant arent you?
(captainbildo, Thu 8 Apr 2010, 21:25, 1 reply)

Just read your other post there and agree with you, however a lot of British people/companies refer to Ireland as Eire. However, I believe this is purely from ignorance (I have heard countless stories of British people not being aware we don't use sterling/love the Queen/aren't ruled from London etc..) rather than trying to sound lever/cultured/whatever... That was just something that popped into my head on reading your post - I know you didn't even mention it. You may not agree but it seems that racism/prejudice or maybe just misinformation in relation to Ireland/Irish history is rampant in the UK which is surprising considering our collective past (800 years of oppression etc...). British culture has such an effect on Ireland and it's possible to forget that this isn't always a reciprocal arrangement due to size differences.


The capitalisation thing was something i noticed while editing and I fired it in without much thought to be honest.

I get confused between Ulster Scots/Scots/Scots Gaelic/Scottish English myself (apologies if I used an incorrect or annoying term there).

In fairness, the term 'craic' in English has been around since the 70's according to wikipedia; and while it is hard to distinguish between bastardisation of language and evolution of language, I think craic is OK. Consider the term google (as a verb) - it's only a few years old yet is almost universally accepted as a legitimate term.

I wouldn't call myself a pedant but that post certainly read like I am one! It was pretty much a stream-of-conciousness rant rather than a part-by-part deconstruction of your post. I'd like to be pedantic but I know that I'd end up making some silly mistake and embarrassing myself...
(tubeman trousers, Thu 8 Apr 2010, 23:03, closed)