atheism/agnostic

[Carl123]

Hallo

I just registered and read the rules.
But i still have a few questions about the site and how it works in general. Firstly i wanna say im Danish so excuse any miss spelling.

My parents and everyone i ever knew didn't belive in god, and the same is true for me. That ain't to say i do not respect religion, infact i do very much so.
I wanna understand it and ask questions that i tryed to ask other places but to no satisfaction

Is this place only for people of faith?
Can one ask skeptical questions ? (I mean some will be offended by the fact one disagrees)
Are there other atheists or agnostics here?

Cheers
Carl

[Lux]

Anyway, Bailey's is a brand but the thing itself is usually refered to as Irish cream.

We still call it all Bailey's.

Potato crisps are called Taytos, here. Tayto is a brand of crisp, but even crisps that aren't made by Tayto are called Taytos.

We do that here too. We call all chips Lay's. It's most common with office supplies, like glue. There's this one brand of glue that has a funny name and we use it to refer to all glue.

[McCulloch]

A great breakfast: Irish cream, French toast,Canadian Bacon and Hollandaise on a Toasted English Muffin and a Danish.

[Lux]

A great breakfast: Irish cream, French toast,Canadian Bacon and Hollandaise on a Toasted English Muffin and a Danish.

You'd have to be in the States for that breakfast to work. If you were either in Ireland, France, Canada, Holland, England or Denmark one name would be country-less!

[LiamOS]

A great breakfast: Irish cream, French toast,Canadian Bacon and Hollandaise on a Toasted English Muffin and a Danish.

What an absolutely revolting thought...

[Goat]

A great breakfast: Irish cream, French toast,Canadian Bacon and Hollandaise on a Toasted English Muffin and a Danish.

Then, in the evening, you can have Scotch.

What do the scotch call scotch?

[mav2097]

Hehe funny thing is danish pastry is known everywere but Denmark itself

I know how you feel. The Americans have something known as Canadian bacon. We don't call it that.

Yes we have Canadian bacon, its ham, and its very annoying when you ask for ham on your pizza and they tell you "We don't have ham..we have Canadian bacon."

[McCulloch]

What do the scotch call scotch?

Having recently visited Scotland, I know the answer to this one. They call it in their language uisge beatha meaning literally "water of life". The first term uisge meaning water, has been transliterated into English as whiskey, on of the surprisingly few terms in English borrowed from Scottish Gaelic Gàidhlig. Even more surprising considering that the Gaelic alphabet does not include W, K or Y. I brought home a particularly fine sixteen year old single malt from Aberlour, the place of my wife's ancestors.

BTW, the people in and from Scotland call themselves Scots not scotch.

[LiamOS]

Having recently visited Scotland, I know the answer to this one. They call it in their language uisge beatha meaning literally "water of life". The first term uisge meaning water, has been transliterated into English as whiskey[/i], on of the surprisingly few terms in English borrowed from Scottish Gaelic Gàidhlig. Even more surprising considering that the Gaelic alphabet does not include W, K or Y. I brought home a particularly fine sixteen year old single malt from Aberlour, the place of my wife's ancestors.

BTW, the people in and from Scotland call themselves Scots not scotch.

That the Scots have a word for it in their own language does not mean they call it that.
They call it whiskey, because almost nobody speaks Scot's Gaelic.

On another note, that's remarkably similar to the Irish for whiskey: Uisce Beatha, which literally translates to the same.

[McCulloch]

That the Scots have a word for it in their own language does not mean they call it that.
They call it whiskey, because almost nobody speaks Scot's Gaelic.

On another note, that's remarkably similar to the Irish for whiskey: Uisce Beatha, which literally translates to the same.

They call it whiskey when they are speaking English, because the English word whiskey is pronounced almost the same as the Gaelic uisge. There are no silent vowels in Gaelic. Scots Gaelic is a member of the Goidelic branch of the Celtic languages like Irish. It is widely spoken in the Western Isles where we spent four days (on Lewis and Harris Leòdhas agus na Hearadh Population 19,918 humans and a disproportionate number of the UK's 33.1 million sheep).

Scot's Gaelic is descended from the Irish and is for the most part mutually intelligible with it and Canadian Gaelic, spoken in parts of Cape Breton Island.

While we're on the topic of the Gaelic, Julie Fowlis is a singer with an amazing voice. She did a cover of the Beatles' Blackbird (Lon Dubh) in Gaelic. It is packaged on her album Cuilidh (pronounced Kay-lee, the word means social gathering or party with musical performances).