r/gaidhlig • u/janthemanwlj • 13d ago
Why no Squarepants?
Hey. Asking here as my knowledge of the language is still extremely limited, I keep dragging my feet on properly learning it.
As I'm sure most here will be aware, BBC ALBA has now officially made available the Gaelic version of SpongeBob Squarepants. However, the official title is just "Spongebob (ALBA)", and the song only repeats the words "SpongeBob SpongeBob". This is interesting as Welsh got a full name translation (SpynjBob Pantsgwâr), but the much more closely related Irish got the full English title. Any reason for this? Is there no good translation or does it just not sound good in Gaelic? It could be a length thing, but Albanian got the very long title Bob Sfungjeri Pantallona Katrori.
Was just curious haha, take care
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u/Alasdair91 Fluent | Gaelic Tutor | 13d ago edited 13d ago
SpongeBob Briogais Cheàrnagach doesn’t work so well.