It probably was not your intention, but this does read a bit like you didn't read the whole screed. Which it's fair if you didn't, it's not your job to. But the probelm is that there is so much internal and external all going on I can't just take one little piece and stick with it. it would be nice to speak some Gaelic, but I have to stack that on top of other languages I'm already studying. It doesn't feel any more my birthright to speak that tongue than the Latin or Greek I use. It's not a problem that's easily unraveled.
I think I got you. When I said a tiny bit of Gaelic, I meant maybe a few phrases. It might be a way to start building a connection to Irishness on your own terms.
It probably was not your intention, but this does read a bit like you didn't read the whole screed. Which it's fair if you didn't, it's not your job to. But the probelm is that there is so much internal and external all going on I can't just take one little piece and stick with it. it would be nice to speak some Gaelic, but I have to stack that on top of other languages I'm already studying. It doesn't feel any more my birthright to speak that tongue than the Latin or Greek I use. It's not a problem that's easily unraveled.
I think I got you. When I said a tiny bit of Gaelic, I meant maybe a few phrases. It might be a way to start building a connection to Irishness on your own terms.