Snappy Irish Phrases

Geog ariphic · 03-06-2011 10:39am #1

I'm looking for help: a person i know is looking for a snappy Irish word or saying to put on tshirts for a school, for promotion of the Irish language.
I suggested 'Ceart go leoooor' as in Awwwwwriiiight but its too long, both in characters and for it to roll off the tongue. (Though we do say it in my school..:rolleyes:)

Something that would be taken to mean as 'Sorted' or 'In the bag' would be good, or showing how easy Irish is.
For that I suggested 'Gaeilge = éasca', she then wanted to go with 'Ró éasca' as in the "Americanism": 'Too easy'. I'm a bit dodgy on that one myself.

Anyway, the point is does anyone have any poistive, encouraging but above all SNAPPY irish words/phrases that would be appropriate? My dictionary is uafásach!;)
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An gal gréine · 03-06-2011 12:12pm

Éacht/gaisce= feat or achievement.
Tairbhe= gain.
Sómás= ease/comfort.
Sómásach= easy/comfortable.

pog it · 03-06-2011 12:20pm

Geog ariphic wrote: »

I'm looking for help: a person i know is looking for a snappy Irish word or saying to put on tshirts for a school, for promotion of the Irish language.
I suggested 'Ceart go leoooor' as in Awwwwwriiiight but its too long, both in characters and for it to roll off the tongue. (Though we do say it in my school..:rolleyes:)

Something that would be taken to mean as 'Sorted' or 'In the bag' would be good, or showing easy Irish is.
For that is suggested 'Gaeilge = éasca', she then wanted to go with 'Ró éasca' as in the "Americanism" 'Too easy'. I'm a bit dodgy on that one myself.

Anyway, the point is does anyone have any poistive, encouraging but above all SNAPPY irish words/phrases that would be appropriate? My dictionary is uafásach!;)
(P.S. All 'is féidir linn', póg mo thóin or similar comments, unless extremely helpful, will be taken as spam and reported.)

There's a basic problem with this. Irish isn't easy. Of course learning the cúpla focal and being able to say 'is maith liom cáca milis' and that sort of thing is easy -learning a few sentences and few words in any language is easy- but becoming fully fluent or even moderately fluent in Irish isn't easy.

pog it · 03-06-2011 12:21pm

So I would suggest something like 'Irish - put your back into it'.

Aard · 03-06-2011 1:09pm

I remember "Hardcore Gaeilgeoir" from when I was in school. Probably doesn't fit the bill though.

An gal gréine · 03-06-2011 1:47pm

We've all heard of "Mol an óige is tiocfaidh sí", it occurs to me that "Meall an óige is tiocfaidh sí" is just as important.

Geog ariphic · 03-06-2011 1:48pm

pog it wrote: »

So I would suggest something like 'Irish - put your back into it'.

Those two comments are genuinely unhelpful and discouraging. I don't care what your opinion on learning Irish is - this is for under twelves, and anything to throw a positive light on irish, along with having some phrase they can be confident in using, is good for the language.
Also that's far too long.:P

Krusader · 03-06-2011 2:17pm

éasca péasca - easy peasy

pog it · 03-06-2011 3:28pm

Geog ariphic wrote: »

Those two comments are genuinely unhelpful and discouraging. I don't care what your opinion on learning Irish is - this is for under twelves, and anything to throw a positive light on irish, along with having some phrase they can be confident in using, is good for the language.
Also that's far too long.:P

I don't know how old you are but I suspect you are young so I'm not going to argue with you. Maybe ease off on the confrontational manner though with people you don't know. My opinion about learning Irish is positive but realistic.

And you didn't say it was for U-12s so yeah that's another story to something for secondary schools. Maybe in future give full and complete information for what you want and people will be able to help you more.

deirdremf · 03-06-2011 10:03pm

Geog ariphic wrote: »

I'm looking for help: a person i know is looking for a snappy Irish word or saying to put on tshirts for a school, for promotion of the Irish language.
I suggested 'Ceart go leoooor' as in Awwwwwriiiight but its too long, both in characters and for it to roll off the tongue. (Though we do say it in my school..:rolleyes:)

Something that would be taken to mean as 'Sorted' or 'In the bag' would be good, or showing how easy Irish is.
For that I suggested 'Gaeilge = éasca', she then wanted to go with 'Ró éasca' as in the "Americanism": 'Too easy'. I'm a bit dodgy on that one myself.

Anyway, the point is does anyone have any poistive, encouraging but above all SNAPPY irish words/phrases that would be appropriate? My dictionary is uafásach!;)
(P.S. All 'is féidir linn', póg mo thóin or similar comments, unless extremely helpful, will be taken as spam and reported.)

Fág seo! = Let's go!
Gabh i leith! = come here!
Togha! = Great!
Tá tú togha! = You're great! ..... can be used with other persons too, sé, sí etc.

Toyota_Avensis · 05-06-2011 12:08am

Gaeilge: gan stró ...effortless

Geog ariphic · 05-06-2011 10:59am

pog it wrote: »

And you didn't say it was for U-12s.

Fair enough

arse..biscuits · 09-06-2011 11:19am

Lots of good ones on hairybaby.ie

http://www.hairybaby.com/index.php?option=com_virtuemart&page=shop.browse&category_id=13&category_parent_id=1&keyword=&manufacturer_id=0&Itemid=26&orderby=product_cdate&limit=20&limitstart=60

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