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Gaelic looks like 7-ASCII-bit line noise to me. A Gaelic name could be created which clueless fascists would assume the spelling of, but the correct spelling would be fairly far (in some linguistic Hamming metric) from the assumed spelling. How do you spell John Smith in Gaelic? Just a thought.
On Sat, Jun 26, 2004 at 10:13:00PM -0700, Major Variola (ret) wrote:
Gaelic looks like 7-ASCII-bit line noise to me. A Gaelic name could be created which clueless fascists would assume the spelling of, but the correct spelling would be fairly far (in some linguistic Hamming metric)
from the assumed spelling. How do you spell John Smith in Gaelic?
Just a thought.
In G`idhlig (Scottish Gaelic) it'd be at least starting as 'Iain' (which is the Gaelized John). -- P`draig MacIain.
Padraig MacIain wrote:
On Sat, Jun 26, 2004 at 10:13:00PM -0700, Major Variola (ret) wrote:
How do you spell John Smith in Gaelic?
In G`idhlig (Scottish Gaelic) it'd be at least starting as 'Iain' (which is the Gaelized John).
The modern Scottish equivalent to John Smith would be Iain Gow. (There was a British politican with that name.) An older or more Irish form might be something like Eoin MacGowan.
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