Someone wrote in [community profile] tf_talk 2015-04-16 08:47 pm (UTC)

Re: DAYDverse "diversity"

This is even more hilarious considering what follows:

“His’d be Erse, not Gaelic. We’re not the same, and we whipped Scotland at Quidditch last year.” Seamus pointed out defensively.

Erse is a form of Gaelic. The statement doesn't make any sense. And unless Seamus was a scholar, it's so fucking unlikely he would use that word to begin with:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erse

Erse can be:
-an alternative name for any Goidelic language, especially Irish, from Erische.
-a 16th-19th Century Scots[1] name for Scottish Gaelic


I presume Seamus is using it in the second (ironically) non-Irish sense. Why a blue collar kid would be using an archaic 16th to 19th century term for a language he doesn't speak is beyond me. I assume because Andy has a kink for sprinkling his writing with terms that are unfamiliar to his readers to demonstrate how well-read he is.

HA.


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