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> Irish and Scottish are very similar, but they are not mutually intelligible Not true. They are mutually intelligible to a high degree. Native speakers, spea
by biorach 1y ago
> Irish and Scottish are very similar, but they are not mutually intelligible
Not true.
They are mutually intelligible to a high degree. Native speakers, speaking slowly and clearly can understand most of what each other are saying.
I speak some Irish and have personal experience of this.
- Asraelite 1y agoYeah, to a degree, my dad speaks Irish and he says the same. But it's not quite enough to be considered the same language. It's comparable to Norwegian and Swedish, or Portuguese and Spanish.
- messe 1y agoIrish speaker here who has attempted to learn some Scottish Gaelic, and currently lives in Denmark, I think the Norwegian-Swedish comparison is probably apt. Although I think Irish/Scottish Gaelic are possibly even more divergent than that. Side note: as an Irish speaker, reading Manx Gaelic, with its Welsh/English derived spelling system feels like what I imagine having a stroke feels like.
- biorach 1y ago> Side note: as an Irish speaker, reading Manx Gaelic, with its Welsh/English derived spelling system feels like what I imagine having a stroke feels like. Ha! That's a great description for how completely unsettling reading Manx is.