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Help[Opinions] Re: What's your opinion on the traditional spellings of Irish names?
in reply to a message by ash
Rar. I have expressed my opinion on this a lot and it always gets people angry and Irish-patriotic at me. And I don't care. Those spellings infuriate me so much. Eefa is a neat-sounding name. Neeve is neat-sounding. Keeva is neat-sounding. Sive is neat-sounding.
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Pah. If you live in an English-speaking place, have a TEENY bit of respect for the people around you and spell them in ways that make sense. Caoimhe DOES NOT SPELL KEEVA ! They don't look beautiful to me, they look like a bunch of random letters thrown together by some snickering troublemakers. Like if I wrote Aichuttnrio on my school enrollment forms and insisted that my teachers pronounced it Emma. Nope. Ugh they infuriate me so much.
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ETA: I would be VERY infuriated to read a story with more than one or two of these in it. And pronunciation guides for those two I would expect to be provided. But 1-2 is okay.
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Pah. If you live in an English-speaking place, have a TEENY bit of respect for the people around you and spell them in ways that make sense. Caoimhe DOES NOT SPELL KEEVA ! They don't look beautiful to me, they look like a bunch of random letters thrown together by some snickering troublemakers. Like if I wrote Aichuttnrio on my school enrollment forms and insisted that my teachers pronounced it Emma. Nope. Ugh they infuriate me so much.
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ETA: I would be VERY infuriated to read a story with more than one or two of these in it. And pronunciation guides for those two I would expect to be provided. But 1-2 is okay.
This message was edited 2/26/2008, 6:22 PM
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