looks good to me!

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Thanks for the confirmation An Cionnfhaolach,thats two that agree on it now.
I didnt realise about the font converter so thanks very much for letting me know.
I tried to do as you said but cant seem to get it to work for me
when i click on font and choose like you said,then this appears,but im not sure where i should be writing my text? Do i need to delete the writing in the brackets? And does this put the dots above the letters for me as the ellipsix site does? Fantastic idea if i wasnt too daft to get it to work.I will get there at some point,so thanks for the help.I know there must be a knack to using this style of font,i just cant figure it out ha ha

Hi, weeman. I have special software called Cló Gaelach that lets me input the poncanna séimhithe directly from the keyboard.

The Mac version is avaliable here:

http://www.gaelchlo.com/macosx.html

The Windows version is available here:

http://www.gaelchlo.com/fuinneog.html

In the meantime, the following link should open up a window with a list of letters with síntí fada and poncanna séimhithe already on them. If you are in a hurry, just copy and paste from that.

http://www.awyr.com/ILF/dokyumnts/Ponca ... mhithe.txt

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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).

Ah thats brilliant,thanks for that Breandán.

go raibh maith agat (i hope that is correct)

Breandán, An Cionnfhaolach - fair enough. GRMA.

I was only saying that I didn't think the given translation was that dubious. Errigal's translations may yet be better alternatives. I see now that the do replacing the na in Errigal's i measc do Naomh accounts for the "thy" in "amongst thy Saints". Here are the three proposed translations for "count me among thy saints":

cuir in áireamh na Naomh mé
áirigh i measc do Naomh mé
déan mé a áireamh i measc do Naomh

Does anyone have any thoughts or preferences amongst these? or alternative translations?

(OT question: if we have chuid between do and Naoimh, i.e., do chuid Naomh "your saints" and then put it in the genitive after i measc, what happens? (besides a right mess)? Does it become i measc do chuid Naomh? or i measc do choda Naomh? or something else again?)

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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).

D'oh!



As far as I remember, nouns denoting quantity or part such as 'cuid, roinnt', etc. retain the "common" form even when "governed" in the genitive.

Can someone confirm if i put these sentences together correctly please based on the help you guys gave me?Thanks again for that.And does anyone have any preferences/input as to which sounds the best/is most correct please.Thank you.

A Thiarna, ardaigh ar do láimh dheis mé agus cuir in áireamh na Naomh mé

A Thiarna, ardaigh ar do láimh dheis mé agus áirigh i measc do Naomh mé

A Thiarna, ardaigh ar do láimh dheis mé agus déan mé a áireamh i measc do Naomh

Firstly, "Láimh" in the Tuiseal Tabharthach (the dative) which is good for Munster and older Irish but I think archaic for everywhere else and the Caighdeán (or the irish standard). It would be "lámh" in the Caighdeán. I personally prefer it as "Láimh" though.

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3. I have a problem with this one, "déan mé" doesn't make sense here for me. Its seems odd. I don't think "déan" is the correct verb to use. "Cuir" is the verb most commonly used with "áireamh"

Wait for more input on that.

Its like in German:

"Ich kann sport machen"

translated directly into English means:

"I can make sport" (I can play sport).

Irish has something similar: Irish has its own word for playing sport ("imirt") and it has a verb for children generally playing ("súgradh").

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in the dative case, I think it's "láimh" in all dialects and in standard Irish.
In standard Irish there are 5 feminine words (+Éirinn) that have a specific dative case (slender ending):
lámh - láimh, bos - bois, bróg - bróig, cluas -cluais, cos - cois

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