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Scottish Gaelic groups of words elaborated to express ideas, not necessarily phrases in the grammatical sense. I just wanted to stop and say how much I appreciate what you are doing and how surprised I was that you still take the time to respond to comments posted years after the original article. When confronted with this information by blog commenters, the tattoo bearer insisted that her trusted friends who were raised Irish-speaking in Ireland had given her this translation. She said: “Fine; whatever. The people that I know say that I’m right; the Irish Gaelic-English dictionary says that I’m right. But, go ahead guys. Tell me that my tattoo is wrong. It doesn’t matter. I’m happy with it.” She stated that she had also looked up “drug” in an English-Irish dictionary and found the word drugáil, and that the apostrophe was supposed to represent the fada (or srac in Scottish Gaelic) over the á. He was cleared of all charges in a sex assault trial last year, but has regularly faced difficult questions about inappropriate conduct towards women while he was First Minister. But Gaelic is not like English. It’s a minority language and culture that multiple governments have tried for many hundreds of years to stamp out. Its speakers have been pressured and even forced to abandon it and assimilate to English. Many were beaten in school for speaking Gaelic. It’s amazing that Gaelic speakers are still keeping the language and culture going. Gaelic is also what we call an “endangered” language, because efforts to stamp it out have been so successful in the long run that the number of speakers is still decreasing, and the language is in great danger of disappearing altogether. The “cool” factor comes in part from its rarity and double-edged romantic stereotypes of being ancient, natural, and poetic (= obsolete, animalistic, and good for nothing but poetry).

Dream can mean “people,”“kindred,” or “folk,” but it’s not the usual Scottish Gaelic word for family (which is teaghlach). “ Á” means “out of” and so it’s possible that they mistook this for “of” (which is de), while also omitting the srac over the “á.” Apart from the word being wrong, however, this grammatical construction (family tradition, that is, tradition of the family) would actually require the genitive case in Gaelic. The genitive case is a category that nouns fall into when they are used in expressions of possession, measure, or origin. In English we can use either a possessive form or “of” to indicate this relationship, for example: “Mary’s coat” or “the coat of Mary”; “a month’s vacation,” or “a month of vacation.” In Gaelic, nouns are modified in spelling and pronunciation when they are used in the genitive case. In the literal Gaelic translation of an English phrase like “family tradition,” in other words “tradition of the family,” the word for family ( teaghlach) would be written in the genitive case (in this case teaghlaich).MacAskill, a former Holyrood justice secretary, announced his defection on Saturday, meaning the Alba party now has more MPs than Scottish Labour. Asked by Sophy Ridge on Sky News if such moves indicated nationalist infighting, he denied this, saying: “This is about delivering that independence super-majority. The independence movement is a broad church, it encompasses more than one political party. Asked whether he agreed with Sturgeon’s suggestion that Salmond still had questions to answer regarding his personal conduct, MacAskill said: “No. We’ve had two court cases – he has been successful in both a civil and indeed a criminal court action. That is behind us, we go forward.” Earlier this week, Mr Salmond wrote to the SNP’s 45-strong parliamentary group outlining the proposal, passed by Alba's members at their recent party conference. The sensational development was by far the most dramatic of the Scottish election campaign so far, with Mr Salmond and his former protégé Ms Sturgeon having been engaged in a bitter feud for nearly three years about the Scottish Government’s handling of sexual harassment allegations against him, which he strenuously denies.

TAPADH LEAT GU MÒR for buying the book! There is also now an Irish Gaelic Tattoo Handbook that does the same thing for Irish — spread the word! Hanvey’s was one of a handful of high-profile moves from the SNP to Alba over the weekend, including the former MP Corrie Wilson and two councillors, Lynne Anderson and Caroline McAllister, who were both elected to the national executive committee last November as part of an internal rebellion against Sturgeon’s leadership style and have been outspoken critics of policy on transgender issues. Which “ancient gaelic script” are you asking about – (a) ogham, (b) a medieval manuscript font such as used in the Book of Kells; or (c) a ‘clò gaedhlach’ font such as used for print books in Ireland a century ago, based on the medieval manuscript fonts? Do you have a sample image of what you have in mind? I give examples of different Celtic fonts in my book The Scottish Gaelic Tattoo Handbook. I do hope it’s not just another boring frustrating question that gets put your way. I would just really like expert advise before I start the procedure of changing my name legally for paperwork etc. As you can imagine, that would be an embarrassing predicoment on formal legal documents if I have the Incorrect info.

A few polls suggest that Alba will meet this threshold, but most do not. The most optimistic, realistic scenario for the party is that it would return one MSP in each region, translating to a small but potentially influential bloc at Holyrood, particularly if the SNP does not win an outright majority.

If it’s in English, then are you willing pay someone to have it (a) translated into Irish Gaelic and then (b) transliterated or retyped in a different font? Ok, I admit…. I am a word nerd. I love them. Maybe it’s a fetish of sorts The older or more obscure language the better…The latest developments come at the end of a turbulent week in Scottish politics, which began with Sturgeon being vindicated by an independent inquiry into whether she broke the ministerial code in her meetings with Salmond about the Scottish government’s inquiry into sexual harassment complaints against him, and ended with the former SNP leader launching his bid to return to Holyrood as an MSP for the new list-only party. However, just days before the deadline for registering candidates, Mr Salmond, the former SNP leader who led the Yes campaign in the 2014 independence referendum, announced that he would lead Alba into the Scottish elections and seek to return to Holyrood. Curtice, a professor of politics at Strathclyde University, told BBC Radio Scotland’s Sunday Show that polling evidence suggested Salmond “is not a very popular politician any more”, but added the new party could “make all the difference” to whether the SNP won an overall majority. Now, how do you think you’re going to get a translation on the internet? Online translating services don’t do Scottish Gaelic (yet).This is what happens when you’re dealing with a “lesser-used” language. There just aren’t that many of us Gaelic speakers around, and so large companies tend not to cater to us with goods and services. But even when online translating services do offer Scottish Gaelic, beware. Google Translate made a hash of Irish, and online translators generally don’t work that well.

Under the Scottish Parliament’s complicated voting system people get two votes - the first to elect a constituency MSP under first-past-the-post system which is identical to the system used to elect MPs at Westminster. The second vote is used to vote for a party rather than an individual, and these ballots are used to elect regional MSPs.

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Scottish Green voters care about the climate, about fairness, human rights, the kind of policies we’ll be bringing forward … they are a totally different demographic from people who are likely to vote for a party thrown together by a disgruntled ex-first minister as part of his vendetta against our first minister.” There are eight electoral regions in Scotland, and parties generally need around six per cent of second votes in a region to secure an MSP.