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June 2, 2020 12:50 pm GMT

A US cop made an Irish "Blue Lives Matter" shirt that accidentally said "Black Lives Matter"

This is one of my personal favorite bits of Schadenfreude in the world.

This photo was taken by Karen Reshkin at the 2016 Milwaukee Irish Fest, and depicts a somewhat Irish-inspired riff on the standard Blue Lives Matter fascist fashion chic. Except no one explained to this idiot cop how translations work, especially when it comes to idioms.

A blogger named the Geeky Gaeilgeoir breaks this hilariously ironic failure with eloquent detail, and a much firmer grasp of the Irish language than I have. But essentially, this mean translated individualword of "Blue Lives Matter" without considering context or grammar. "Gorm" is indeed "blue." But "chna" means "lives" with a short "i," as in, "I live here." And "bhar" means "matter," yes, but in the noun form like a subject matter, or a material, as opposed to the verb of "mattering."

The syntax is all wrong, too. And that helps with the absurdity. Essentially, this shirt doesn't sayanything.

But the real chef-kiss moment is with the word "Blue." "Gorm" is, technically, correctin a certain context:

When color is used to describe a person in Irish, it typically refers to hair color. For exampleAn bhean rua: The red-haired woman.

There are exceptions, of course: For example,Na fir bhu(The orange/yellow men)is used to refer to members of the Orange Order because of the color of their sashes. Butblue/gorm would not be used to refer to police officers as a group.Thats an American thing.

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Original Link: https://boingboing.net/2020/06/02/a-us-cop-made-an-irish-blue.html

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