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Like if you just happened to be making a website, what would you use as an icon to change to from english to gaelic?

Thanks in advance.

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A leprechaun passed out in a pool of vomit?

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I just knew that the "thanks in advance" sentiment was premature.

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Poor Skalie. This is the best I can do:



Oidhche shàmhach, oidhche naomh,
Cadal ciùin tha air an t-saogh'l,
Màiri is Ioseph 'san stàbull fhuar,
A' freasdal a' phàisd tha àlainn 'na shnuadh,
An sìth o nèamh 'na shuain,
An sìth o nèamh 'na shuain.

Oidhche shàmhach oidhche naomh,
B'e buachaill chunnaic fòs an t-soills
's a chuala farsaing feadh na tìr
An t-séisd bh'aig ceòl nan ainglean binn:
Tha Criosd, am Fear-saoraidh, 'nur còir,
Tha Criosd, am Fear-saoraidh, 'nur còir.

Oidhche shàmhach, oidhche naomh
Aon Mhac Dhé, cho maiseach leinn;
Tha gràdh a' boillsgeadh oirnn bho d'ghnùis
'S tha uair nan gràs an dràsd dhuinn dlùth,
Shlànaighear, o'n rugadh tu,
Shlànaighear, o'n rugadh tu.

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Which Gaelic? I'd use the Scottish or Irish flag.

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Irish Gaelic, and we're currently using the Irish flag to change the language to "English".

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Use the Irish flag for Gaelic and the English flag for English.

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it's gay, but they used to like it when gay just meant happy:

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quote:

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Originally posted by Aydin
Use the Irish flag for Gaelic and the English flag for English.

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Gov.ie uses "Gaeilge" and "English."

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quote:

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Originally posted by Aydin
Gov.ie uses "Gaeilge" and "English."

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And they do have a picture of a harp. What's the harp about?

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Guinness

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quote:

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Originally posted by Coincidence
Poor Skalie. This is the best I can do:

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That's a composite of the flags of Isle of Man, Scotland, Wales, Cornwall, Ireland, Britonny (clockwise from top).

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oh oh oh, use a ticking car bomb..... Or maybe a little smiley face of jerry adams.

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quote:

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Originally posted by Aydin
That's a composite of the flags of Isle of Man, Scotland, Wales, Cornwall, Ireland, Britonny (clockwise from top).

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They all once spoke Celtic languages.

edit: "Gaelic" only refers to Irish, Scottish, and Manx, the Goidelic language family. Breton, Welsh and Cornish are Brythonic.

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Aydin, are you a linguist?

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No, but it's an interest of mine.

edit: I should have answered "in the bedroom."

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The symbol in the middle is a triskele. Depending on who you talk to, it can symbolize stages of life, sky/sea/land, the sun, fertility, time (like the uruboros -- not a continuum), etc.

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Irish people have sex with dogs. Have an icon of a person having a sex with a dog, for accessing the Gaelic translation.

A John Bull character with his foot on the head of a downed Irish savage should suffice for the 'English language' icon.

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Is there an icon for Cromwell stabbing Irish babies?

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The symbol in the middle is a triskele. Depending on who you talk to, it can symbolize stages of life, sky/sea/land, the sun, fertility, time (like the uruboros -- not a continuum), etc.

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CuChulainn was the 'Hound of Ulster'* and, as such, had sex with Irish people**.

* True, that was his name. He wasn't a dog, though***

** Disputed. But true.

*** actually, he was, and held the pan-Ireland record for sex with irishpeople. But most scholars have missed that out for fear of offending irishpeople and never again being able to get unskillled manual labour done slowly for cheap.

The Irish, like most of the celts, like the number 3 (the idea of the 'three in one' was common amongst celts, even though they had no really homogeneised religion). This, scholars believe, evolved in Ireland to the 'Holy Trinity' of Dogs, Sex and Irishpeople, which was later replaced, through the action of doghating christian missionaries, with Father, Son and Holy Spirit. The original triskele, however, was dogs, sex and irishpeople.

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