Braoin, there is no value whatsoever in Urban Irish in passing it on. You say you have passed on Irish to three children - but that is Gaeltacht Irish you're talking about - so you are mixing up the two things immediately.
"The more young people who are favourable to Irish" - blah blah blah - this turns Irish into some kind of nationalistic political campaign. It makes no difference to me if people who don't want to learn the language are favourable to it or not - this is not for me a campaign of spreading favourable attitudes as a stepping stone to creating a nation speaking fake-Irish.
How can you show that Irish can handle any subject matter when it can't? There are things like particle physics that have NEVER been done in Irish - and NEVER been discussed in Irish - all you can do is to pretend to create a vocabulary for it that no native speaker will recognise. Unless those words are used by the native speakers - they are not legitimate Irish words.
What you are talking about is a totally fake and artificial thing. Esperanto probably has a Coiste Téarmaíochta devising nonsense terms too. Imagine going down to the Dinka people of the Sudan and finding - shock, horror - there is no word for proton, neutron or electron in their language - and telling them "don't worry, we have a university department of non-native speakers of Dinka in the US who will make the words up for you". The Dinka tribesman says, "but we won't understand those words, because we will never have used them". Mr Standard Dinka in a US university department replies, "that shows you are the Sudanese equivalent of boggers, who don't speak the technical and refined version of your language, because you're not educated enough". The Dinka tribesman replies, "but Dinka is our language - how can you make up terms we have never used? How come they become the higher style of our language, imposed by you on us?" Mr Standard Dinka in a US university department replies, "how can Dinka be dragged into the modern world otherwise?" The Dinka tribesman replies, "as and when we need those words we will come up with a form ourselves, or use a loan word, or possibly even use a word you have made up for us, but until we use them, the words you are devising are just nonsense".
Braoin, can you tell me the Gaeltacht version of the following passage from Wikipedia:
Quote:
A quark is an elementary particle and a fundamental constituent of matter. Quarks combine to form composite particles called hadrons, the most stable of which are protons and neutrons, the components of atomic nuclei. Due to a phenomenon known as color confinement, quarks are never directly observed or found in isolation; they can be found only within hadrons, such as baryons (of which protons and neutrons are examples), and mesons. For this reason, much of what is known about quarks has been drawn from observations of the hadrons themselves.
Please do so WITHOUT using any words that native speakers in the Gaeltacht have never used.
It is simply factually the case that that paragraph cannot be translated into Irish, other than by using italicised loan words throughout.
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