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dave_mc

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« Reply #15 on: March 06, 2006, 11:30:42 PM »
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but the thing is, thru and through are somewhat related - kinda look the same. chevaun and Siobhan are completely unrelated, haha.


bh in irish = v. Much like ph in english = f. It's very simple. The irish also have a habit of throwing in random vowels that don't do anything to how the word is pronounced, you get used to it after a while ( i don't speak any irish, by the way, this is as far as i can tell, lol).

and wtf does that g do in "through"? they don't look remotely the same.

another example: lieutenant is pronounced leftenant, unless you're american. that's as messed up as any irish word i've seen. english is one of the hardest languages to learn if it isn't your first language.

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« Reply #16 on: March 06, 2006, 11:31:55 PM »
*go davey, go davey*

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« Reply #17 on: March 06, 2006, 11:33:36 PM »
:twisted:

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« Reply #18 on: March 06, 2006, 11:35:45 PM »
lol - well i'm just gonna pronounce everything as its spelt. S-C-R-E-W   E-N-G-L-I-S-H
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« Reply #19 on: March 06, 2006, 11:37:35 PM »
scroo inglish dont yoo meen?

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« Reply #20 on: March 06, 2006, 11:38:03 PM »
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lol - well i'm just gonna pronounce everything as its spelt. S-C-R-E-W   E-N-G-L-I-S-H


that wood sownd leyek a veri good iday.

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« Reply #21 on: March 06, 2006, 11:39:36 PM »
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lol - well i'm just gonna pronounce everything as its spelt. S-C-R-E-W   E-N-G-L-I-S-H


that wood sownd leyek a veri good iday.

no dave, ur all backwards, lol - ur spelling things how yu say them!!!
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« Reply #22 on: March 07, 2006, 05:42:01 AM »
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Why didn't the irish spell it rightly the first time? Seriously, being irish is no excuse for poor spelling...or is it?


Siobhan is phonetic.  It's just not phonetic English.  Happens all the time, you know.  The name Bella is pronounced Bay-Uh in Spanish, because that's how they say double Ls.

Yeah, I know: I'm being serious again.  I studied linguistics at university.
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« Reply #23 on: March 07, 2006, 08:58:57 AM »
Trevor is often pronounced wan**r (I rest my case)

The people who really get on my tits are the uber Irish where Irish names are not Irish enough.

Mind you it usually involves really bad beards and looking like you havn't washed


Rob...
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« Reply #24 on: March 07, 2006, 04:05:28 PM »
wow i never knew that about the name trevor...  :?

'uber irish' haha what a phrase...

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« Reply #25 on: March 07, 2006, 04:57:34 PM »
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no dave, ur all backwards, lol - ur spelling things how yu say them!!!


 :lol:

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Siobhan is phonetic.  It's just not phonetic English.  Happens all the time, you know.  The name Bella is pronounced Bay-Uh in Spanish, because that's how they say double Ls.

Yeah, I know: I'm being serious again.  I studied linguistics at university.


exactly.

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The people who really get on my tits are the uber Irish where Irish names are not Irish enough.

Mind you it usually involves really bad beards and looking like you havn't washed


Rob...


exactly. I don't even speak irish. I was just pointing out to indy that what he was saying about irish could apply equally to english- even worse perhaps, since because english is an amalgamation of latin/french/german/friesian/anglo-saxon/viking etc, there's no real true phonetic spelling in it- most words take their phonetics from the original language from which the word came. Irish looks daft, but if you studied it, it'd make sense (ditto german/french/whatever), unlike english. English is my first language, and most of the time I'm going "OMGWTF, why the hell  has "demesne" got an "s" in it?" etc. (it's from french presumably).

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« Reply #26 on: March 07, 2006, 05:07:37 PM »
yer english is weird like that....

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« Reply #27 on: March 07, 2006, 09:18:30 PM »
je parlerai en français, mehehehehe

To be honest - my question was answered right at the beginning of this thread - i never knew Siobhan was an irish name til then :P
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« Reply #28 on: March 07, 2006, 10:21:31 PM »
hahahaha! even I knew it was an irish name... you pillock

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« Reply #29 on: March 08, 2006, 12:46:26 PM »
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To be honest - my question was answered right at the beginning of this thread - i never knew Siobhan was an irish name til then :P


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