It seems Irish, as a Celtic language, seems to attract all manner of nonsense. Here's a good one:



And this was/is in a course someone was teaching!

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Oh my....

Breton too. Probably Welsh too...

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I love all these things. They're quite entertaining, and a good break from traditional Tamil/Sanskrit/Hebrew/Basque theories haha

You clearly hangout on r/BadLinguistics BTW, I heard that from Felicia.

Used to be there a lot more, before I was a mod. I've kinda grown disillusioned with the place, really. But it's still nice to see uber-nationalistic badlinguistics.

Do you get many "pagans" here, looking to get their "traditional" blessings translated...?

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Not really but zillions of translations for tattoos! in Breton forums too. Endangered languages have become tattoos' languages, for people who won't ever learn them nor even how to pronounce what is written on their tattoo...

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We used to get a lot of them in the old forum. That and people wanting "meaningful" names for their children, or wanting confirmation that the "meaningful" names they'd made up (or gotten from an obscure website) actually meant what they wanted them to mean (usually well after the baby was born and the birth certificate filed).

Anyone remember the Druid's Dictionary? Someone brought it up to me the other day, and I was shocked to see it's still floating around out there. It cropped up in the old place sometime around the first or second year after I started learning, and was defended vociferously by its creator. Their definition of "Bard" shows the depth of unbiased learning that went into it (yes, I'm being sarcastic!)

https://www.adf.org/rituals/explanation ... ochta.html

Redwolf

I'm often confronted with this sort of nonsense, on a very frequent basis.

One visitor insisted that Irish was one of the seven sacred original languages of the world.
Another that it was a mystical language tied to nature and the druids
etc, etc,
often mixed up with sort of new age mysticism,

Given these people are often visitors, well meaning and friendly I find it extremely hard to point out their often colossal error , and often pointless as the propagates willful blindness is often the foundation of a much larger belief system/ outlook on life.

Most the time I just end up nodding and smiling.

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