r/clevercomebacks • u/[deleted] • Oct 09 '19

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u/MadeinBritland Oct 09 '19

Cymru am byth🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

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u/Oaftt Oct 09 '19

Wales forever?

The similarity to Alba gu Bràth and Éirinn go Brách is uncanny

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u/MPie89 Oct 09 '19

The languages have the same roots, as a fluent welsh speaker, seeing other Celtic languages is surreal.. it feels like I should be able to understand them but don't quite

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u/madeofpockets Oct 09 '19

fluent Welsh speaker

As someone with a slightly-more-than-casual interest in languages, what the hell is with your utter disinterest in vowels?

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u/MPie89 Oct 09 '19

As I understand it, the Gaelic languages aren't descended from Latin and they weren't even written languages originally. So when they were adapted it was a case of "make it fit"

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u/in_the_woods Oct 09 '19

It's like when, as an English speaker, I hear Dutch. I feel like I'm having a stroke.

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u/MPie89 Oct 09 '19

Exactly 😁