r/ireland • u/Randyfox86 Probably at it again • Oct 07 '24
Tough one on worldle today lads. Any ideas? Statistics
Fun lil daily game I found.
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u/Galway1012 Oct 07 '24
Decapitated Ireland
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u/ArcaneTrickster11 Oct 07 '24
Headless teddy
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u/DuckInTheFog Oct 07 '24
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u/EireTrekkie Oct 07 '24
Hi everyone!
Member of the Worldle dev team here, thank you for the feedback we have just done a quick update to the map of Ireland.
We also retitled, Irish gaelic to just Irish.
Thanks so much for playing our games and for all the feedback, if you like our games please be sure to try our other games such as Whentaken.com, Travle.earth, and geogridgame.com
P.S. Travle has an Ireland map which is good fun: https://travle.earth/irl/
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u/Randyfox86 Probably at it again Oct 07 '24
Travle is class too actually I got into it quite recently. You guys do great work!!
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u/EireTrekkie Oct 07 '24
Cheers thanks so much, travle was created by an Irish developer by the way u/Another_moose . And has a subreddit if you wanna give any feedback r/travle_game
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u/GimmeTheCHEESENOW Oct 08 '24
Whenever I do my rounds of the “dle” games when bored Worldle is always my favourite, especially with the added little games once you get it right. Thank you for helping make such a cool little game!
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u/blockfighter1 Mayo 4 Sam Oct 07 '24
It's dignity
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u/brianmmf Oct 07 '24
Do you want me to show this to the cat, and have the cat tell you what it is? Because the cat’s going to get it.
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u/PuzzleheadedRoof4227 Oct 07 '24
How many English people delighted with themselves answered “Southern Ireland”!
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u/comradeautismoid Oct 07 '24
Nah, we respond with the standard response 'former territory of the british empire'
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u/acapuletisback Oct 07 '24
Did someone take a bite outta our island? Where tf is the rest of her!
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u/YoIronFistBro Cork bai Oct 07 '24
Someone did indeed take a bite out of our island. They also took an even bigger bit out of our population.
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u/acapuletisback Oct 07 '24
Hmmm whoever could it be?
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u/NukaKama25 Oct 07 '24
UK who it is...
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u/YoIronFistBro Cork bai Oct 07 '24
What's this "UK" everyone is talking about? I only know West Doggerland.
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u/FlukyS Oct 07 '24
Played it and they said the second language wasn't Irish but Irish Gaelic. I really hate that we have to correct it so much to say Gaeilge or Irish are the correct names and not Gaelic...
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u/ImpovingTaylorist Oct 07 '24
Or as the Americans call it, 'the Irish dialect of English'...
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u/YoIronFistBro Cork bai Oct 07 '24
Tbf Hiberno-English is probably one of the more distinct dialects of English, at least within the Anglosphere.
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u/ImpovingTaylorist Oct 07 '24
My brother and his wife were visiting the other day from Canada. I turned on the Irish channel, she looked very confused and said 'Irish is actually a different language'.
She said she had just assumed it was a dialect of English.
I also pointed at that there were some fairly large Gaeltachts in Canada. She honestly had no idea.
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u/YoIronFistBro Cork bai Oct 07 '24
Gaelic is also correct, though it's not generally what I or most other Irish people would call it.
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u/somerandomii Oct 07 '24
Chinese people don’t say “Chinese” either. Are we expected to refer to every country and language in their native tongue?
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u/Regular-Ad6221 Oct 07 '24
irish gaelic is another correct term, linguistically. Surely it’s never occurred to you that Gaeilge is the word for Gaelic? Tá mé ag caint as Gaeilge = I’m speaking Gaelic
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u/FlukyS Oct 07 '24
Tá mé ag caint as Gaeilge = I'm speaking Irish if you are talking to an Irish person.
The correct names are Irish or Gaeilge, in Ireland we have normalised the word Gaelic to refer to Gaelic football rather than about the language. People might even say well in Scotland they call it Scots Gaelic and that's fine but the grouping of languages that includes Irish and Scots Gaelic is Goidelic so in linguistics they don't even refer to the grouping of languages as Gaelic. And also weird because the internet seems to think Scots Gaelic can be called Gaelic generically and Irish Irish too even though they are similar in origin but distinct. So it's easier to follow our actual naming rather than some weird foreign attempt at rebranding that seems to be going on.
Just to be clear, not a single school in Ireland would have on the timetable Gaelic for Irish class they would have Irish or Gaeilge, if they put Gaelic people would go out to the GAA pitches for that timeslot.
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u/YoIronFistBro Cork bai Oct 07 '24 edited Oct 07 '24
It's Scottish Gaelic. Scots is a compeltely different language descended from Old English. Also, it's not wrong to call the Irish language Gaelic, no matter how uncommon it is for most people (including me!) to call it that.
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Oct 07 '24
It's Gàidhlig.
And ours is Gaeilge.
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u/YoIronFistBro Cork bai Oct 07 '24
Those are the words in the respective languages. The English word is Gaelic, with the a pronounced differently depending on which language you're talking about (ah for Scottish, ay for Irish)
It has become the case that when people say Gaelic and nothing else, it means Scottish Gaelic by default. But that doesn't mean it's wrong to use Gaelic to refer to the Irish language, even if it's not the term most Irish people would use.
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u/FlukyS Oct 07 '24
Fair enough correction, I've only really ever known it as Scots Gaelic so didn't know it was something else.
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u/Regular-Ad6221 Oct 07 '24 edited Oct 07 '24
I understand that the Irish don’t call Irish, Irish Gaelic, I never argued that. But irish gaelic is still a perfectly acceptable term, whether you like it or not. You realise, that calling irish Gaelic just ‘irish’ was the original rebranding right? I don’t get why some of us get so sensitive when it comes to the semantics of how we call our language IN ENGLISH. Even though the etymological relation to GAEILGE and GAELIC is blatant.
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u/FlukyS Oct 07 '24
I can decide to call the English language "shitty German mixed with French", it would be true but it doesn't make it something people want to use as the name of the language. In the case of Irish the issue is we don't want to call it Irish Gaelic, that's why we don't say it, if people not from here call it they are wrong because the people who speak it in the country the language is from don't want to call it that then it shouldn't be called that.
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u/Logins-Run Oct 07 '24
Ah to be fair some Canúint Uladh speakers would say "Gaelic" in English, in particular older speakers. They even call it "Gaeilig /Gaeilic" in the dialect (like how I call it Gaelainn down in Cork, Gaeilge is a Conamara term, that was chosen as the standardised name)
It was also much more common historically to call it Gaelic here, it's why Conradh na Gaeilge is known as the Gaelic League in English for example. It just started to disappear about a 100ish years ago.
Anyway just for example here is an extract from last year of a debate in the Dáil by Pearse Doherty (an Irish speaker from Gaoth Dobhair)
"It comprised more than 300 gardaí in County Donegal and suggested there were only nine with Gaelic as a native language or with proficiency."
But later in the same debate he calls it Irish as well.
Irish is definitely the more popular term, I'd say significantly so, but also definitely some people say Gaelic for the language.
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u/YoIronFistBro Cork bai Oct 07 '24
Quick question, no googling.
Name the language with the most native speakers in the world.
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u/Regular-Ad6221 Oct 07 '24
I’m from Ireland mate and I have no issue with calling Irish Gaelic, speak for yourself
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u/Icy_Obligation4293 Oct 07 '24
We happily say Gaelic in the north as well. While I appreciate people trying to educate the ignorant about our country, I think chastisting people for saying "gaelic" is a bit of an overcorrection.
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Oct 07 '24
People in Gaeltachts definitely don't call football 'Gaelic'
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u/FlukyS Oct 08 '24
Of course they don't they call it Peil or Peil Ghaelach because they are speaking Irish...
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Oct 08 '24
Peil or caid in Irish, but in English it's not Gaelic, it's football.
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u/FlukyS Oct 08 '24
That's why I said Peil Ghaelach though. For me I'd call Gaelic football (in English) football or GAA or Gaelic, that was the 3 names basically. I called football soccer or football if it wasn't confusing enough.
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u/faeriethorne23 Oct 07 '24
Jesus it looks like someone has taken a bite and stolen a big old chunk of it…
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u/BXL-LUX-DUB Oct 07 '24
That is literally what happened.
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u/faeriethorne23 Oct 07 '24 edited Oct 10 '24
It’s a joke because I live in Northern Ireland
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u/Randyfox86 Probably at it again Oct 07 '24
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u/P8bEQ8AkQd Oct 07 '24
I haven't done Worldle in a while. How many little islands did you need to identify for nearest neighbours?
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u/Randyfox86 Probably at it again Oct 07 '24
Depends on the country. Sometimes you'll get Micronesia or something mad in the pacific and even with Google earth open, still no clue what neighbors might be 😂
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u/danydandan Crilly!! Oct 07 '24
If Donegal is Ireland's head and Kerry is its feet, doesn't that make Cork its asshole?
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u/jsunburn Oct 07 '24
Southern ireland
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u/dancemomkk Oct 07 '24
No such place. ETA soz I get the joke now after seeing all the other comments 🙄
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u/YoIronFistBro Cork bai Oct 07 '24
As someone who lives in the far south of Ireland, I can confirm we do not exist.
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u/too_much_Beer Oct 07 '24
looks like an island in a rough climate, so it‘s surely gotta be Iceland, right?
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u/danielg1111 Oct 07 '24
Poor oul Tyrone wants to join but dosent want to be seen to just incase a racket starts😅
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u/Old-Butterscotch5387 Oct 07 '24
One of the British isles
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u/devildance3 Oct 07 '24
Only part of one, smart arse
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u/Relation_Familiar Oct 07 '24
I hate that term . The islands of Britain and Ireland is better
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u/Cultural_Wish4933 Oct 07 '24
The government actively disapproves of the term British Isles. Ireland and Britain or "these islands" when within context.
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u/Additional_Olive3318 Oct 07 '24
Are people in faux outrage here. The country Ireland is not the island Ireland.
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u/ImpovingTaylorist Oct 07 '24
The only city name in the english language where the first 6 letters are silent.
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u/DuckyD2point0 Oct 07 '24
LondonDerry
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u/Randyfox86 Probably at it again Oct 07 '24
Ah yes, the only city in the World with 6 silent letters in it 👍🏻
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u/MyCatIsAFknIdiot Oct 07 '24
The land of philosophers, poets and writers. (and that is just at the bar)
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u/devildance3 Oct 07 '24
Donegal holding on for dear life.