Bhail, mar a d'ubhart mé, go dtighe seo char chualaidh mise féin "mo bhuachaill" á úsáid ach le "my boyfriend" a ráidht. Agus ó tharla go ndeirtear "my boy" le "my son" a ráidht i mBéarla, is féidir go ndéanann tú Béarlachas nuair a deireann tú "mo bhuachaill" le "mo mhac" a ráidht. Ach amháin má deireann na cainnteóirí dúthchais é...

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Is fearr Gaeilg na Gaeltaċta ná Gaeilg ar biṫ eile
Agus is í Gaeilg Ġaoṫ Doḃair is binne

Níl a fhios agam fán fhocal 'buachaill' i gcanúintí eile ach amannaí cluintear 'mo ghasúr' le 'my son' a rá i nGaeilge Uladh, sa Ghaeltacht ar ndóigh. Seans gur Béarlachas é ach sin mar atá...

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Ultach mé agus Gaeilg Uladh a labhraim go measardha maith!

I'd prefer "mo mhac".

Still there's nothing wrong with translating it literally. But we don't really say "my boy" in Irish.

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It is recommended that you always wait for three to agree on a translation.
I speak Connemara Irish, and my input will often reflect that.
I will do an mp3 file on request for short translations.
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How would I write this in sean-chló with SL?

Liv

Not sure what you mean by "SL," but Breandán can give it to you in sean-chló.

Redwolf

You might not have seen some of the revisions in the guidelines, Redwolf. We recommend marking translation requests with (SL) for old spelling (sean-litriú):

Mo ṁac, mo ċuid den tsaoġal

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Múinteoir Gaeilge - Irish Teacher
My "specialty" is Connemara Irish, particularly Cois Fhairrge dialect, but I can also speak Ulster and Munster Irish with native-level pronunciation.
Is fearr Gaeilge ḃriste ná Béarla cliste, cinnte, aċ i ḃfad níos fearr aríst í Gaeilge ḃinn ḃeo na nGaeltaċtaí.
Gaeilge Chonnacht (GC), go háraid Gaeilge Chois Fhairrge (GCF), Gaeilic Uladh (GU), Gaelainn na Mumhan (GM), agus Gaeilge an Chaighdeáin Oifigiúil (CO).

I'm afraid all these abbreviations are getting rather confusing. It might make sense to use them in the topic line for quick searches (in which case, though, I'd recommend using English abbreviations so they make sense to beginners), but the more things we start abbreviating, the harder it's going to be to keep track of the abbreviations.

Redwolf

My sentiments exactly. I came to that conclusion quite some time ago. Aussie rules, confusion reigns !

These abbreviations have been settled for quite some time now. They were actually only intended for subject lines and after translations that aren't in CO with modern spelling or to help point out which translations are dialect and which are standard forms, but it isn't difficult to work out what they mean if they do appear in the body of a request (Hint: just go to the Forum Rules where they are listed).

They are very helpful for dialect awareness and there aren't that many of them.

If you don't like them or can't get your head around them, you don't have to use them, but ILF will reserve the right for moderators to add them in later to make your posts less confusing to beginners if deemed necessary.


@Seaghan - the abbreviations merely reflect the complexity of the language itself. It wasn't Australians who made the Irish language so wonderfully complex in the first place.

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Múinteoir Gaeilge - Irish Teacher
My "specialty" is Connemara Irish, particularly Cois Fhairrge dialect, but I can also speak Ulster and Munster Irish with native-level pronunciation.
Is fearr Gaeilge ḃriste ná Béarla cliste, cinnte, aċ i ḃfad níos fearr aríst í Gaeilge ḃinn ḃeo na nGaeltaċtaí.
Gaeilge Chonnacht (GC), go háraid Gaeilge Chois Fhairrge (GCF), Gaeilic Uladh (GU), Gaelainn na Mumhan (GM), agus Gaeilge an Chaighdeáin Oifigiúil (CO).

mo bhuachaill, mo bheatha, m'anam-sa