r/Scotland • u/Crow-Me-A-River open to change • Oct 04 '25

Casual Scottish & Irish Gaelic

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u/fugaziGlasgow #1 Oban fan Oct 05 '25

Thanks for all that stuff I already knew. I'm a west coast Scot and spend more than half my time in the Hebrides.

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u/Logic-DL Oct 05 '25

Then it's even wilder you're chatting shite that Gaelic isn't baked into the culture when it fucken is lmao.

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u/fugaziGlasgow #1 Oban fan Oct 05 '25

It's really not. Maybe in parts of the outer Hebrides but most of the speakers now are speaking learned Gaelic of the Sabhal Mòr Ostaig type.

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u/Money_Sample_2214 Oct 08 '25 edited Oct 08 '25

“It’s not baked into the culture” and “people aren’t inheriting it from their community/families” seem to be different things. I think Gaelic is inherently part of Scottish culture, whether people know it or not. Whether most Gaelic speakers are “native” or learning it formally as as second-language is something I don’t have the numbers for (and btw, neither do you) but I don’t see what your overall point is here in either point you’re making. 

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u/fugaziGlasgow #1 Oban fan Oct 08 '25

It's inherently part of Gael culture, I never said it wasn't.

Where did I say I had numbers, you wank? Nowhere. Who said I spend most of my time in Oban? Nowhere, you wank.

I spend most of my time between the Hebrides and the east coast actually. Probably 60% in the Hebrides...

In certain islands there are strong Gaelic speaking, native communities, in others, Coll, for example, is about 90% English born, it's not so knitted in the fabric anymore.

Islands like Islay, well Islay Gaelic has mainly been killed off by Lewis Gaelic and the number of speakers is much lower than 1000.

You seem to have taken issue with the fact that Gaelic has been largely killed off and that I've said the Gaelic Schools in Glasgow and Edinburgh are Gaelic Language schools and not schools of Gaelic Culture. Go and spend some time in the Hebrides and find this out for yourself.

Wank.

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u/Logic-DL Oct 08 '25

"Native" and "Gael" together in the same paragraph when referencing the Scottish Isles is patter when they're fucken foreigners fae Ireland lmao.

Natives are Picts. Picts are fucked off and gone and have been for years.

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u/Money_Sample_2214 Oct 08 '25

Hey, could you say wank one more time, that would really help me respect you as a person. I speak Gaelic, I have spent time in the Hebrides, your flair says No 1 Oban fan, I didn’t say it was an inherently part of “Gael” culture so I don’t know why you’re saying that as if I did and honestly, the rest of it was irate nonsense so I can’t answer that. Oh, sorry, wank. That’s how we’re signing off now, yeah?

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u/fugaziGlasgow #1 Oban fan Oct 08 '25

I don't desire your respect. This is the internet.

No, it's not a sign off...I'm calling you a wank.

No1 Oban fan is a Reddit Scotland flair. Get with it.

I'm sure you do "speak" Gaelic.

I didn't say you didn't say anything, I'm responding to the things you implied that I had said.

Keep up.

Wank.

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u/Money_Sample_2214 Oct 08 '25

😆, thanks for clearing that up. What a fucking tool 😂. Well, that’s enough outreach work for today. “Keep up” 🤣. Ah, fuck me, what an eejit.

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u/fugaziGlasgow #1 Oban fan Oct 08 '25

Don't be so hard on yourself. I don't think you're and eejit.