ithinkitsnice wrote:someone once told me folk were forgiving about which side the noun sits in colloquial Gaelic, which might be wrong.
That sentence confuses two claims.
1) That people are forgiving of it, but that it is still wrong.
2) That it is an optional part of "colloquial Gaelic".
Certainly, people are very forgiving of it. Getting it wrong rarely obscures the meaning, and it is such a common learner error that everyone's used to it.
But is it wrong?
Well, I
have met native speakers who don't tend to stick to the traditional order, but only a couple of them.
I would be loathe to tell a native speaker they were speaking "incorrectly", but equally, it's such a rare thing among genuinely strong native speakers that I would never, ever suggest a learner should take that as a model.