Oh my, cha chuala mi mu dheidhinn sin riamh, ach tha e coltach gu bheil sin ann gu dearbhakerbeltz wrote:Aran air a dhèanamh a chnòthan-daraich
."ma tha sibh airson fhrasairean...", oir nach eil an t-alt ann, "mus cleachdar nam frasairean...", oir tha e ann - ceart?akerbeltz wrote:Ok, ceist air ais thugaibh - am bu chòir sèimheachadh a bhith air frasairean gus nach bu chòir?
a' feuchainn fhathast...akerbeltz wrote:So, has anyone spotted the other two?
B' àbhaist dha mo sheanag a dhèanamh sa chogadh. Tha e fìor bhlasta!Oh my, cha chuala mi mu dheidhinn sin riamh, ach tha e coltach gu bheil sin ann gu dearbh
lol tha sin ceart... sin CalMac dhutIt was so full of mearachdan
Chan eil, 's urra dhut loose compound a dhèanamh le dà ainmear: [aig an] [ionad fiosrachaidh] - ach thà mearachd san abairt seo.Hmm, "an ionad fiosrachaidh" - if there's an article, shouldn't it be between the two nouns? => "ionad an fhiosrachaidh"?
If there was a hyphen, the article would definitely not get put between but there's still an error in aig an ionad fiosrachaidh.And in the last line , if 'fiosrachaidh' is genitive AND is not linked to 'ionad' by a hyphen, there is no need for an article.
Idiomatic without any doubt. Short is dangerous. Gaelic uses more letters for the same number of speech sounds so it almost invariable needs more space to convey the same "message". It's actually something we need to accept and live with. Yes, if you use idiomatic Gaelic, you can avoid laborious constructions but on the whole, it'll still be longer.notices should be short (space) and idiomatic to the language used , i.e. shorter (forget 'nan seirbheisean etc) if necessary
Here, I fundamentally disagree. It's an official sign. It should use a high, official register of the language not specific to the area. You don't get regional fire safety notices in other languages either, both in Bavaria and in Berlin they use standard German. There's no need to that level of regionalism. Besides, what if you use the ferry for a different route, change all the signs?and change register to suit local usage/ taste.
That's not what I meant. I was not thinking of dialectal difference, or extremely colloquial language, but (though perhaps expressed too tongue in cheek for clarity) the differences between standard languages themselves in the degree of formality or type of of high-register/politeness stylistic signals used for official notices . Eg in some languages/countries you would use a 'please', or passives, or conditionals, in others a command is fine.akerbeltz wrote:I didn't mean shorten the (lengthier) Gaelic so much as to cause confusion, danger etc, but shorten any non-essential content to get it to fit the area available or to make it clear and quick to read. Eg, omit the 'services' bit of the manager's title, esp. as the abbreviation is left in.Idiomatic without any doubt. Short is dangerous. Gaelic uses more letters for the same number of speech sounds so it almost invariable needs more space to convey the same "message". It's actually something we need to accept and live with. Yes, if you use idiomatic Gaelic, you can avoid laborious constructions but on the whole, it'll still be longer.
Here, I fundamentally disagree. It's an official sign. It should use a high, official register of the language not specific to the area. You don't get regional fire safety notices in other languages either, both in Bavaria and in Berlin they use standard German. There's no need to that level of regionalism. Besides, what if you use the ferry for a different route, change all the signsand change register to suit local usage/ taste.
