Timeline for Is this a valid Irish word?
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| Aug 12, 2024 at 8:52 | answer | added | Kevin Cruijssen | timeline score: 2 | |
| Aug 2, 2024 at 8:00 | comment | added | Janus Bahs Jacquet | @Flater True, there are lots of other spelling patterns that would be invalid but aren’t part of the exercise here. | |
| Aug 2, 2024 at 1:26 | answer | added | bb94 | timeline score: 1 | |
| Aug 2, 2024 at 0:34 | comment | added | Flater |
@JanusBahsJacquet: ggg isn't an Irish word and that's listed as a "valid" Irish word in the examples. While the title refers to being a "valid Irish word", the purpose of the exercise solely focuses on the slender/broad division for its vowels. It's not asking to vet any other spelling, nor to check if the word itself exists in an Irish dictionary. We're only asked to apply the broad/slender rule. Non-existing words can still be judged for correctness on broad/slender. If your interpretation were correct then the valid examples would only contain actual Irish words, which is not the case.
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| Aug 1, 2024 at 23:52 | history | edited | bb94 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Aug 1, 2024 at 19:06 | comment | added | Janus Bahs Jacquet | @Flater I’d say any word containing aé, áe or áé should return false by definition, since these sequences are categorically impossible in Irish. They have no defined value as tautosyllabic units and could only possibly appear across word boundaries in compounds – but when vowels coalesce in compounds, they should be separated by hyphens, so you’d end up with a-é, á-e and á-é (all of which are possible). The same is true of sequences like uo, eu, ie, au and various others. Irish spelling is complicated. :-) | |
| Aug 1, 2024 at 8:47 | answer | added | Neil | timeline score: 1 | |
| Aug 1, 2024 at 2:55 | answer | added | Wheat Wizard ♦ | timeline score: 3 | |
| Aug 1, 2024 at 1:28 | comment | added | Wheat Wizard♦ | ospidéal and osréalach are other valid Irish words that don't follow clcalll. | |
| Aug 1, 2024 at 0:24 | comment | added | Flater | @bb94: "I don’t think aé, áe, and áé are used in Irish at all." If they're not used at all, then I would suggest you rule it as a Don't Care condition (TL;DR it's undefined behavior, nothing you do here is a wrong choice, whatever works for you) rather than mandating that they shouldn't be considered to be broad. (I'm aware that your comment leaves it somewhat ambiguous as to how you're ruling on this, but I'm pointing it out for clarification purposes) | |
| Jul 31, 2024 at 23:50 | answer | added | Neil | timeline score: 3 | |
| Jul 31, 2024 at 20:12 | history | edited | bb94 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jul 31, 2024 at 18:49 | comment | added | Jonathan Allan |
I have assumed AE, Ae, and aE are classed as broad too hopefully, that's right. It's probably worth updating the text of the question for clarity about all of this too.
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| Jul 31, 2024 at 18:41 | answer | added | Jonathan Allan | timeline score: 2 | |
| Jul 31, 2024 at 17:42 | history | edited | bb94 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jul 31, 2024 at 17:41 | comment | added | bb94 |
I don’t think aé, áe, and áé are used in Irish at all. I’ll say that only ae should be.
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| Jul 31, 2024 at 16:10 | comment | added | Jonathan Allan |
...if so @bb94 is áé considered broad?
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| Jul 31, 2024 at 16:06 | comment | added | Jonathan Allan | @鳴神裁四点一号 Perhaps that is truthy because "ae is also considered broad"? | |
| Jul 31, 2024 at 14:01 | answer | added | IY5dVSjABEeV | timeline score: 2 | |
| Jul 31, 2024 at 13:14 | comment | added | IY5dVSjABEeV | I think laethanta should be falsey because th is surrounded by e and a | |
| Jul 31, 2024 at 10:00 | history | asked | bb94 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |