>tfw no one wants to learn our language

Sorry

if i learn it will you give me one of the qt kpop singers

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>it's a filthy dumb ESL scum, or a military whiteboi/nigger baboon-head pretending to be a self-hating gook episode

>>67605320
>self-hating
?

>>67604935
because China will cuck your shit up sooner or later

>>67604935
Start producing chinese cartoons like the nips.

>>67604935
It's a shame because hangul is objectively better than any other Asian script.

>>67604935
lmao love how you made this thread

its the same as any other language excluding shitnglish

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she likes koreans

>>67604935
Plenty of Koreaboos here

>>67604935
Met this one guy in my speech class, who was learning Korean, because he was interested in working for Samsung.

>>67604935
Just stop caring about it like I do

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>>67604935
>tfw not even our own people want to learn our language

>>67610612
I'm not trying to be rude or anything, but what's the point? I mean I understand that it's your heritage and part of what Ireland is, but English is so deeply rooted nowadays and frankly a lot more useful.

No one wants to learn it because Korean language classes stink like hell due to the kimchi smell of Korean teachers' mouths

>>67611126
Really made me think

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>>67611126
do you love k-ntr

>>67611043
The point is the cultural ties and heritage, it's sad that the only pre-modern literature Irish people can hope to understand is the literature of a different culture. I'm sure you can understand the place of language in cultural and ethnic identity. Not everything is about pure utilitarianism otherwise you could easily argue for a proactive program to erase globally useless languages like Swedish.

>>67611292
What the...?

>>67611328
Of course not everything is about utilitarianism, but at some point you have to ask yourself if it's worth the effort and loss of utility. Had Irish been spoken by, say, 30-40% of the population it would've been a completely different situation. One in which heritage certainly would win over utility. Just like we don't learn old norse.

>you could easily argue for a proactive program to erase globally useless languages like Swedish
Being globally useful is not a language's primary function. It's about facilitating effective communication to those in your immediate surrounding, i.e. your own country and neighbors. In which case Swedish is extremely useful since the vast majority of Swedes speak Swedish and Swedish is largely mutually intelligible with both Danish and Norwegian. English is less useful in Sweden than Swedish. The same can not be said for Irish in Ireland.

>>67611292
Hot

>>67611043
A fucking swede does not get the concept of national pride. Always proving the memes Sven

>>67604935
kekekekekeke

Isn't it pretty hard to learn Korean? I mean I know the writing system is fairly easy, but the other stuff is hard I heard.

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>>67604935
I took the "effort" to learn your writing system + pronunciation

We've got about 60 people in my university doing Korean, but they're either fat koreaboos or absolute faggots.

>>67612037
>fat
>koreaboos
>faggots
implies these are mutually exclusive

>>67612137
I mean, a few of the girls doing Korean are good looking, I suppose.

>>67611835
There's a difference between national pride and autism. Resurrecting and effectively dead language falls in the latter category. There's only one country that have done that so far and that's Israel.

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>tfw 90% of the turks can't even speak proper turkish

>>67612392
>proper turkish

spook

>>67604935
I actually do, maybe I will when I'm fluent enough in Japanese.

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>>67612288
My god, Sven, just stop

>>67612711
>autism: the country
wew, we better start forcing italians to learn latin ammirite?

>>67612828
Latin is a school subject here.

>>67612888
But it's still completely dead, no one speaks it and if someone suggested you should start speaking it they'd be laughed at.

>>67611739
That's the idea of a program of erasure. Replace Swedish (or Scandinavian, they're obviously same language tier) with English because then Swedes wouldn't even need both languages, they would only need the one. In the long run this would be better.
Anyway reviving Irish doesn't imply any loss of knowledge of English so it's not like it's an actual negative.

>>67613163
>In the long run this would be better.
Who knows, perhaps it would be. But it doesn't matter since it's never going to happen.

>Anyway reviving Irish doesn't imply any loss of knowledge of English so it's not like it's an actual negative
You're always going to be stronger in your L1 language than any L2 language you pick up. Even in Scandinavia, where English proficiency is very high, we're still far from being on par with native speakers. There certainly is a difference between knowing it and being a native speaker.

Look, I'm not saying that it's a good or bad just that from a practical perspective I have a very hard time seeing it happening. Furthermore, even if it did happen what would actually practically speaking stand to gain? Would it preserve your linguistic heritage more than it is today? Perhaps, but you already are preserving since Irish is taught as an L2 language. What will you have gained in everyday life? Next to nothing. In fact, it could very well distance northern Ireland from the rest of Ireland further, making a reunification even less likely.

>>67613163
ignore the swedish moron. as a linguist and translator i think the revival of gaelic is not only possible but an excellent idea. dumb 'one world no borders' type idiots propose ideas like esperanto or everyone speaking english but language is absolutely everything to the identity of a people and there's no good reason ireland should abandon its own native tongue

>>67613744
you're a cunt

>>67604935
난 한국 음악하고 한식을 좋아해서 한국어를 배워
Dumb reason desu

>>67613891
>as a linguist
This empowers your opinion regarding the resurrection of a virtually dead language how? Everyone knows linguists are autists that get a hard on from the mere thought of balkanizing languages and linguistic regions. Try actually refuting my points, instead of just trying to paint yourself as having more authority on the matter than anyone else.

>>67604935
But I'm learning korean, it's an awesome language

>>67604935
t. never been on lolcow

tons of koreaboo girls

>>67614162
i'd have to dig to find my opinion of you and your people. take your own advice and learn whatever amalgamation of arabic and north african languages suddenly became popular over there

you don't even have a point

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>>67614291
Not an argument.

>>67604935
It could be worse
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taushiro_language

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>>67614336
arguing with a dipshit is like playing tennis with a quadriplegic so if you don't see the inherent value of the literal native language of a nation i've got nothing to even talk about with you

>>67614512
Quite convenient not having to refute anything you disagree with. I mean, it screams of you not actually being able to defend what you believe, but it is very convincing nonetheless.

While we're on the matter of native languages, why are you speaking English and not one of the actual native languages of Australia?

>>67610612
Well, do you speak irish?

>tfw half-assing Vietnamese because it uses the Portuguese alphabet and has a similar word order as English

>>67612960
speaking =/= learning it as part of ones cultural heritage

Latin is a special case anyway

>>67615209
>speaking =/= learning it as part of ones cultural heritage
So then you agree with my conclusion that resurrecting it is a pointless exercise in national romanticism?

>>67613744
Even L2 speakers from the Gaeltacht have native level proficiency, I don't see it being a major problem, at least it would sitll be above the proficiency in Scandinavia.
Unification is meaningless if Irish culture and ethnic identity is cast aside and it would always cause more hardship than a revival of Irish would anyway. There is often a suggestion that Irish people should be concede something to northern unionists when the truth is they are just largely disagreeable people who have no interest in being Irish whatsoever and don't really deserve anything from us.

>>67615314
be forced to concede*

I know that feel.

>>67615303
I agree with you on the point that reviving dead languages is utter nonsense. But as long as there are people still speaking it, preserving it should be mandatory as, again, part of ones cultural heritage.

>>67615431
I absolutely agree in preserving it for future generations. It's a very good thing it's being taught in Irish schools.

>Even L2 speakers from the Gaeltacht have native level proficiency, I don't see it being a major problem, at least it would sitll be above the proficiency in Scandinavia.
That's purely a result of English being so dominant. If it wasn't, it's not entirely unthinkable to imagine that Scandinavian proficiency would surpass that of Ireland due to our languages being linguistically closer relatives to English than Irish is.

>Unification is meaningless if Irish culture and ethnic identity is cast aside
Yes, but your cultural heritage is far more than just a language. Surely there is room for compromise?

>the truth is they are just largely disagreeable people who have no interest in being Irish whatsoever and don't really deserve anything from us
Is this a common sentiment among the Irish? Couldn't it simply be a matter of not having been taught enough about their culture to care?

>>67615870
Second part meant for >>67615314

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>>67604935
Give me a reason.

>>67615870
>your cultural heritage is far more than just a language
total ignorance

>>67610612
lol fuck em bro i fucking love ireland

>>67604935
>any variation of chinkrunes
no thanks.

>>67604935
Why didn't you just conquer one of your neighbors and force them to learn your language?

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>>67610612

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>tfw someone is actually trying to learn my language

Give me one (ONE) reason not to learn the Korean language.

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>>67605320
I fucking can't wait till we massacre all the wh*tes here.

>>67618544
You will be able to fully enjoy best korea and its glorious leader, Kim Jong Un. I think both him and americans share love for fat rich food.

>>67618720
I said a reason NOT to learn it.

>>67618759
My bad. Scratch that then.

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안녕 하세요~

방법비다 진구데?

>>67615870
>Is this a common sentiment among the Irish? Couldn't it simply be a matter of not having been taught enough about their culture to care?
Northern Unionists largely aren't ethnic Irish, they mostly identify with Presbyterian planter populations who came from lowland Scotland and northern England in the 17th century. They basically represent a failure to integrate.

>>67615870

Strange looking Swedish you're typing in there, Sven

>>67613957
고마워요 카나다산 ^__^

>>67610612
dont worry senpai you guys are pretty chill