My first name is a Celtic/Irish name, actually. "Man of the Church" or something

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forgall_Monach

Question. What does your screen name mean? An Maonach

My ancestors are from around Kiev, Warsawa, Zaporozhia

From what I tracked 4 to 3 generations in that area

It's my surname in a grammatical case

Ah

Huge, but this is what happens when you live in places where mongols come in

For example Pádraig Pearse is often referred to as An Piarsach

The chieftan of a clan would often be reffered to in this was

So the chieftan of the Kavanaghs would be An Caomhánach

I know "An" means "The", so that makes sense

Kryplywy is the original but since we moved to the continent of America it "latinised"

Yeah

Literally "the maonach/anglicised"

I've learned a tiny bit of Irish

Absolute tiny bit

Most changed because "OH NO WE ARE GOIN TO BE PERSECUTED"

Because holy shit how even?

Irish is very difficult, it split from English thousands of years ago

How do you even hold a conversation in Irish?

For example there isn't even a word for yes or no

With great difficulty, it requires changing how you think

I was fluent once but I've slipped into mediocrity

And I thought Welsh was weird for having multiple words for "yes" but not one for "No"

It's different in celtic languages

You answer with the topic

No in Welsh would be "Not Yes"

So if I ask you if you walked, the answer would be "I walked" or "I didn't walk"

For yes/no

Ah

The only real form of yes or no is for the more permanent form of the verb to be or to exist, which indicates something is permanently or isn't permanently a way

It's good to be bilingual though

NL is netherlands?

Yeah

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Soon

I know Dutch, English, enough German to understand and read it, a tad bit of Swedish, I can read Russian, know a tiny bit of Japanese, a little bit of Irish and a very tiny bit of Persian

#AnnexBelgium

Dutch is easy to comprehend even though I don't speak it

Ha