An Lon Dubh wrote:
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For me it means that I can now allow my students to write Chuaigh muid instead of Chuamar
I never understood this, why they did ever use
-amar when it was only said in Clare Irish, which died out in the 1950s (except for two brothers who
lived into the 1990s), before the standard was created.
Chuaigh muid makes much more sense, since people actually use it.
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then I have some updating to do in terms of my knowledge of what is acceptable.
Are dialectal forms unmentioned by the Caighdeán unacceptable in State exams? I don't mean this to start a big debate I'm actually
just curious.
For instance would
Tá dhá bhoin aigesna fearaibh = The men have two cows be acceptable.
Personally, I've never come across anything like this in the course of doing corrections. But Lughaidh is right. It isn't accepted. However beautiful and authentic the dialectal forms are, the language has been standardised in its written form anyway. That standard is what is taught and what is therefore expected in written exams.
Having said that, if I came across someone with great dialectal Irish, I would be very hestitant to find fault with it. But in truth I would not have permission to set my own rules.
Another problem with the correction of dialectal Irish is that I, as an examiner, would need to know all the dialects and obscure variants of pretty much everything in Irish. It's hard enough to get Irish teachers and correctors. It's harder still to get good ones - and even those with 'native' Irish, don't necessarily know other dialects well enough.
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Not me anyway, I didn't write in the standard before and I still don't write in the standard and I guess I'll write in the standard when they accept all Donegal forms in the standard 
