Re: Anyone conversant in Tagalog here?

On Apr 15, 8:25 am, phogl...@xxxxxx wrote:

Your values are not universal, not even in linguistics. The
orthography "larn-yerself-Irish" suggests a racist attitude towards
the Irish by the way.

What an idiot.

It suggests a dismissive attitude (which you persist in misusing the
word "racist" for) toward the polyglot.

As regards pure scholarly interest, "Learning
Irish" (first published sometime in the eighties) is not "the latest
fad" in any sense, but in itself a classical (sic!)

No, not "(sic!)"; you meant "classic," not "classical."

account of the
syntax of a widely-spoken dialect of Irish. If you knew anything about
Modern Irish, you would know that its syntax has been insufficiently
described. I could elaborate, but I know you aren't interested anyway
- besides, the thread is about Tagalog, or is supposed to be.

The author of "Learning Irish" has also written the immensely
important "Modern Irish - Grammatical Structure and Dialectal
Variation".-

Now _that_ would be a volume of interest to linguists.

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