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I learned that decades ago when Sean Connery took the world by storm in his role in Goldfinger.
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I learned that decades ago when Sean Connery took the world by storm in his role in Goldfinger.
^‘Sean’ with a capital s, mind you. ‘sean’ with a lowercase s means old.
We could join in with the Pontic Greeks and re-add the final n to singular accusative female nouns and adjectives (i.e. την Ελλάδαν) but let's not get carried away. After all, the Greeks invented the word ‘isomorph’.It's not that bad, because most of the demotike changes were in effect cancelled, cause they allowed for the older types too and the newer ones just sound lame.I don't care about the diacritics - I just want Modern Greek to sound more like Attic Greek so that it matches better in my head.
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So Sean is sean.
And Siobhán is the Irish version of Joan.
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To avoid confusion when say a father and son are both named Seán rather than saying Seán senior (Seán sean) we just use Seán junior Seán Óg. (E.g. Seán Óg Ó hAilpín) to distinguish.
Nah, it's the same óg/òg as in ‘tirnanog’ (parse that as you please) which does not mean the holdings of a rather territorial with in Lancre and her extended family but simply the mythical land of (eternal) youth.
also it's Seumas, not Seamus
also it's Seumas, not Seamus
Traitorfish
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Fun fact, "John" was adapted into Gaelic twice, first directly from the Greek Ioannis as "Eoin" or "Iain", then later from the Norman "Jean" as "Sean". At some stage the pre-Christina name "Eoghan" also became accepted as a translation of the Biblical name, because why not?
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What, by actually writing letters and pronouncing them as they are written?
If you want to see how Gaelic is pronounced in an English spelling, check this thing called ‘official Manx ortography’.
Bingo!
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