well you were wrong

(I'm a Scot)

What Gaelic is Celtic or rather has Celtic roots?

I understand Gaelic isn't a wholly Celtic language. But a lot of its root words are Celtic and it's similarity to other Celtic languages in that region is close

Close and IS are two different words

I understand

The is part of it was more to invoke a reaction

as they were talking shit about Australia

Derivative

but English is Derivative of Latin, are we Italian?

Nah but gaelic is much closer to the root linguistically then latin to French or another Romance language.
English has only partly Latin words, mostly it is a Germanic language.
Some French words were adopted (during Norman occupation), which yes, are Romance words. But the root is Germanic/anglo saxon

I would not call Gaelic a latin langauge

It's closer to a celtic language

I've had a couple

It is worth noting the Norman occupation also created a royal family that created a situation where the royalty was speaking a different language (French) than the peasants, which the peasants adapted French words

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

I'd leave it if I were you

(I spelt gaelic wrong)

?

It's unwinnable

focus your energy on something else

neh I got heaps of time atm. No uni as it's semester break

I need stuff to keep me occupied

well you should MAGA then

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Make Australia Great Again?

better than whining about Celtc Languages I guess

I hear Oz is less than perfect

It was a discussion topic I had once

Not really a consistent topic

is this a touchy subject for Broo?

whining implies it carried over more than once

yeah that's the reaction I had from the scots

I suspect they don't like the link to the Irish

My problem is that they got anal over something that's mostly true

If you look it up it's really obvious it's true

Scots are closer to the Irish than the English

but don't dwell on it

it's water under the bridge

You can say the Cornish are closer too

yea, same as the Welsh to a lesser extent. Many of the Scots have Nordic ancestry and the Cornish a lot of Norman