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[erastes]

Do I have anyone on my flist who speaks Irish Gaelic? If so, I'D REALLY love a tiny tiny bit of translation done for Standish? I got it all from a translation site, but I don't know if it's at all accurate.

*beggses*

I'll give you a nice acknowledgement!

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[rwday.livejournal.com]

If nobody on your flist can help, I can ask around my writing lists or SCA lists. I have a friend who's connected to a lot of scholarly Celtic-oriented email lists and I'm sure she could find somebody.

[aunty_marion]

I don't, but I have a friend in the choir who does, to some extent. I'll be seeing him next weekend, if that's any use!

[erastes.livejournal.com]

squee!

Can I email you the phrases?

[aunty_marion]

Certainly! Can't promise anything, I know he does speak some, and I've seen him translating bits and pieces (odd words here and there), but it's worth a try. What is it you need? English-to-Gaelic, or the translation-site stuff checked for accuracy?

[erastes.livejournal.com]

Well I have irish words in there, but I stupidly didn't make a note of what the idiot man is SAYING, so I'll send it - actually fuck it, i'll put it here.

He calls Ambrose "Luran" a lot, which I understand means something like darling.

and he says this when Ambrose is giving him a blow job

“Arist, m’eudail, tuilleadh…tagaim!”

Which I made up at the time from dictionary sites and probably means, "oh yes, harder, like that, "

But it may not, so if you friend can come up with a few words I can put in there instead, it would be very appreciated.

THANK YOU!!!

[valarltd.livejournal.com]

Contact rostand. She is a student of Gaelic.

[aunty_marion]

*giggles* That's going to completely flabbergast him. I'll bet he's never been asked to translate phrases for a blow job before! (He's an electrical engineer...)

I've seen m'eudail somewhere before but I think it was supposed to be Scots Gaelic - I don't know how similar they are. *checks* - yes, I've got the glossary in the back of The Seventh Swan (Nicholas Stuart Gray), which says that m'eudail means 'my darling'.

aaahhh

[mystchainsister.livejournal.com]

good luck....I know some Gaelic, yet am not familiar with that phrase!

Hope someone can help you!

[gwionfawyr.livejournal.com]

Are you using Irish, Gaelic, Welsh, Breton, Manx, or Scots Gael?

[erastes.livejournal.com]

Well, my character is Irish, poor Irish, in 1820, so whatever he would speak back then.

[gwionfawyr.livejournal.com]

Give me about....three hours and I'll see what I can do. If that's alright?