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Beatlebug said

@AppleScruffJunior said

“Sow (like a pig) in”

 

should’ve guessed you’d tell me to use the Irish pronunciation I guess it’s probably the most recognized. Hardly anyone speaks Scottish Gaelic.

  

Gaelic is relatively similar to Irish, they’re like cousin languages. If I turn on BBC Alba and concentrate I can normally understand every 2nd or 3rd word which is enough to get the gist of the conversation.

The written system is completely different with Gaelic being more phonetically spelt than Irish. So, on the rare occasions I read Gaelic, I read aloud like a 4 year old.

Shout-out to Manx spoken on the Isle of Man that no one knows exist. Bit more difficult to understand than Gaelic but still comprehensible. The writing system is all gibberish to me though. It did go extinct in the 20th century but like all cool languages is making a comeback similar to Cornish. 

As for the other two Celtic languages, Breton and Walsh, I can’t make head nor tail of them. I met a Breton-speaking lad in Germany and tried to have a conversation with him- no hope. 

Happy update: The one actual job I would take if it was offered to me (rather than go straight into master’s. I’d probably do 2 years of working with this crowd and hope the almighty overlords that run the company would pay for me to do my master’s in exchange for me making them a million euro (because you know I totes can do that…. >.> ) had an email for Round 2 sent to me (which went straight to my bloody spam, thank you stupid email, it’s not like I want employment). 

It’s a tight ship to get into but you know there’s hope…maybe hopefully…oh dear God please hire me!!!

Have just done the strangest job tests so far. I’ll try and explain two of what I had to do:

1. I was shown for a second a highlighted dot on a board among a crowd of other dots. After that second, I would be shown a separate board and asked a question like “are these symmetrical- yes or no?”. I would then be shown a second highlighted dot for a second, then another different board and this would go on about 5 times. At the end of the 5 rounds, I had to recall the position the dots were in it and in what order they came. 

I’d be lucky if I got one right, my brain doesn’t work that way, folks.

2. I had to move a little red ball into a black hole in the fewest moves possible. There would be obstacles in my way that I would have to remove to get the ball into the hole and some of these would be unmovable objects. Basically testing me on my problem solving abilities, in 4 minutes I’d say I did 6 and I skipped one because I got myself trapped and couldn’t move.

Either way, I’ll be very lucky to get into the next round, the written and numerical stuff were fine but those two yokes?!?

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