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It because she straight up used Scottish Gaelic and butchered all of the words and pronunciations. The fantasy genre routinely steals from Celtic languages and mythologies without consulting the people from those cultures
i will say to this that finding out how any fourth wing character name was spelled after listening to the audiobooks was traumatizing
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Here's an article from a Scottish person talking about this exact issue, and you can find many more examples from other people over the years about how American fantasy authors bastardize their languages and cultures. Scottish Gaelic and Irish are both considered indigenous, minority languages, so it's even more insulting for it to be appropriated like this https://www.themarysue.com/scottish-reader-calls-out-authors-who-use-gaelic-incorrectly-to-spice-up-fantasy/

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