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When learning a minority language such as Irish, it is easy to focus on how English has influenced it. A huge amount of vocabulary for new words, especially technology, is basically English transliterations- e.g. f\u00f3n=phone. What has been educational about staying in Ireland for a month, however, is seeing how the Irish I have been studying effects the way Irish people speak Hiberno-English. There are two phrases that just about everybody uses that are wonderful examples of how Irish influences Irish people’s English, even if they don’t speak Irish themselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of my favorite phrases in Irish is “t\u00e1 Gaeilge agam,” which is how you say you speak Irish. However, if one were to directly translate this phrase it means I have<\/em> Irish. It is beautiful in a way that Irish isn’t just something you speak, but something that is a part of you- something you possess. When Irish people are referring to what languages they speak in English, they will use this same structure, saying “I have Irish” or “I have French.” I don’t think I will use this phrase in English when I’m talking about being able to speak foreign languages, but I will use it when talking about Irish. I like the idea that Irish is uniquely something that’s a part of you, not a skill you have. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Another great example of Hiberno-English being directly pulled from Irish phraseology is the expression “he was giving out,” which means that he is scolding or chastising. This too is a directly translation of “ag tabhairt amach,” which is to be scolding. This is quite a funny expression to me because unless somebody told you, it would be pretty hard to guess the meaning of this expression. For this reason I don’t think I will use this expression simply because most people in the America would be pretty confused if I tried using this in English. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a country like Ireland where most people can’t speak their own country’s first and native language, it’s amazing to see how Irish still permeates the culture and thought. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A bilingual sign putting Irish and English right next to each other.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When learning a minority language such as Irish, it is easy to focus on how English has influenced it. A huge amount of vocabulary for new words, especially technology, is basically English transliterations- e.g. f\u00f3n=phone. What has been educational about staying in Ireland for a month, however, is seeing how the Irish I have been … Continue reading Having Irish<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4280,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4280"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2412"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2414,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2412\/revisions\/2414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}