09-11-2025, 08:02 PM
(This post was last modified: 09-11-2025, 08:03 PM by Doireannjane.)
(09-11-2025, 07:31 PM)nablator wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.(09-11-2025, 04:17 PM)Ruby Novacna wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.
What's stopping you from posting the basics of your translation on the forum?
Not long dictionary excerpts, but the correspondences between the EVA words and your reading?
What's stopping you? You've been doing the same thing (dictionary cherry-picking) for years. I had to do it myself from your list of words. You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.
Let me be clear haha, I'm not cherry picking. This is a phonetic approach. I explain how the sounds have changed since medieval times. I'm essentially assigning sounds to glyphs and combinations of glyphs FIRST based off of the feel of the look of the glyph (lol this is the kiki and booba theory along with Lepontic/Venetian Alphabet overlaps) and then matching it with the modern Irish equivalent. This is why it took 3 iterations, looking at Tain Bo (unfortunately there's not a ton of medieval Irish online to work with.) and also looking at Teanglann suggestions, wicktionary pre-fixes/suffixes and A TON of listening to 3 dialects (this was the majority of it). My assigned sounds are not very loose at all and reflect a lot of retained modern Irish. The assigned sounds that I input into Teanglann are what I'm hearing and matching closest to Modern. I hope this makes sense and people can demonstrate repeatability.
An Irish speaker from my TikTok community agreed to demonstrate repeatability, it would be great if he could join with others.
But yeah, this isn't cherry picking unless of course words are the same or slightly adjacent phonetically.
Should I not have posted on here? I don't know if I did the wrong thing. Is this considered peer review?
