annathepiper | And now, Anna's reasons why Gaelic is a wacky language (Reply)

Gaelic has no indefinite articles. You do not say 'there is a cat'. You just say 'there is cat'.
Gaelic has no possessive case. You do not say 'I have a cat'. You say 'Cat is at me' (because there's no indefinite articles; see rule #1).
And for that matter, you would actually say 'is cat at me', because verbs go at the beginning of the sentence!
Adjectives follow nouns. So if I wanted to say something about what color my cat is, I would say 'is cat brown at me'.
Who the heck thought that changing the way your name is pronounced and spelled if you're being addressed was a good idea?! Furthermore, the rules on this are different depending on whether you're a male or a female, and whether your name starts with a vowel!
There is no word for 'it'. All things are 'he' or 'she'.
Apparently, the Scots count by twenties. Twenty-nine, twenty-ten, twenty-eleven... what I have not managed to determine yet is whether thirty comes after twenty-nineteen, or forty.
Did the same person who thought multiple spellings and pronunciations of names was a good idea also come up with consonant combinations like 'sg'?

All I've got to say is, this better durned well help me out singing Celtic ditties, and figuring out what the heck passing Scottish strangers are saying when we go back to Scotland for Worldcon in 2005!