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How does and athiest say 'hello' in Irish?

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  • #32
    strobe
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,872 ✭✭✭strobe


    mikhail wrote: »
    Close enough. "Cad é mar a tá tú?" is the Irish equivalent.

    'Conas atá tú?' Isn't it?

    (Look at me with my Irish, if only Mrs. Dennehy could see me now).


  • #33
    KnifeWRENCH
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,148 ✭✭✭✭KnifeWRENCH


    sdun wrote: »
    "Dia dhuit" for athesists...uhm, how about, "Ni raibh Dia dhuit" ? :)

    If someone said "Ní raibh Dia dhuit" to me, I'd be slightly scared. Something very sinister about the past tense being used! :pac:


  • #34
    sensibleken
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,650 ✭✭✭sensibleken


    Ickle Magoo wrote: »
    Halò? Ciamar a tha thu/sibh?

    Actually, that's scots because I don't speak irish... :o

    is it not scots gaelic rather than scots


  • #35
    Ickle Magoo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,485 ✭✭✭✭Ickle Magoo


    Ooooh, I'm not getting into the whole language/dialect argument...that rages in crofts all across the highlands & islands. :pac:


  • #36
    Dave!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,857 ✭✭✭✭Dave!


    What do a-Thorists call Thursday? Must be proper inconvenient to have to ensure you're using secular words and phrases all the time.


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  • #37
    condra
    Registered Users Posts: 3,849 ✭✭✭condra


    gene_tunney wrote: »
    This is pointless. If you want to eliminate any trace of religion from language you will have a long way to go. The English "Goodbye" is a shortening of "God be with you". Will you stop saying that as well?

    Everything we say is peppered with religious references, but the fact that we use them doesn't make us religious.

    THIS


  • #38
    JustAddWater
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,990 ✭✭✭JustAddWater


    cad e an sceal capall?

    :)


  • #39
    AhSureTisGrand
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,327 ✭✭✭AhSureTisGrand


    Conas atá m'fhear gorm?


  • #40
    ShooterSF
    Registered Users Posts: 8,824 ✭✭✭ShooterSF


    Helloail.

    Well adding -ail or -atha and reversing the words got me through secondary school Irish. I even memorised an essay I wrote about the red hand defenders breaking into my family home at christmas and stealing a skud missile. I spelt SKUD "scudatha", with a fada I think, and my teacher put a tick beside it :D

    I wrote that essay repeatedly before my LC and then twisted the one in the exam into it!


  • #41
    byhookorbycrook
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Regional South East Moderators Posts: 12,475 Mod ✭✭✭✭byhookorbycrook


    Conas 'tá agat/agaibh is a common one.


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  • #42
    Enkidu
    Registered Users Posts: 1,005 ✭✭✭Enkidu


    strobe wrote: »
    'Conas atá tú?' Isn't it?

    (Look at me with my Irish, if only Mrs. Dennehy could see me now).
    Conas atá tú? is the Connacht way of saying it. Conas being a contraction of Cá ionnas = Which manner = How, so Conas atá tú means:
    How which you are?

    Cad é mar atá tú, is Munster, literally meaning: What (is it) as which you are?


  • #43
    dlofnep
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,759 ✭✭✭✭dlofnep


    Enkidu wrote: »
    Conas atá tú? is the Connacht way of saying it. Conas being a contraction of Cá ionnas = Which manner = How, so Conas atá tú means:
    How which you are?

    Cad é mar atá tú, is Munster, literally meaning: What (is it) as which you are?

    Eh no, you're completely wrong there ted.

    Conas atá tú/Conas tánn tú/Conas taoi = Munster.
    Cén chaoi (a) bhfuil tú = Connacht.
    Cad é mar atá tú = Ulster.


  • #44
    Zombrex
    Closed Accounts Posts: 25,848 ✭✭✭✭Zombrex


    dlofnep wrote: »
    Eh no, you're completely wrong there ted.

    Conas atá tú/Conas tánn tú/Conas taoi = Munster.
    Cén chaoi (a) bhfuil tú = Connacht.
    Cad é mar atá tú = Ulster.

    How do people find these threads???????:P


  • #45
    Oranage2
    Registered Users Posts: 11,131 ✭✭✭✭Oranage2


    Well it's obvious atheists dont have this problem as they dont actually speak irish.

    Hopefully no lying went on the Census form though, we wouldnt want false representation and all that jazz. :rolleyes:


  • #46
    Colm!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,014 ✭✭✭Colm!


    "Conas taoi?"

    Simple. I say it anyway and so does anyone I seem to end up speaking Irish to; "Dia dhuit" is way more formal and thus rarely used. Nothing even remotely atheist\religious about it.


  • #47
    dlofnep
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,759 ✭✭✭✭dlofnep


    Oranage2 wrote: »
    Well it's obvious atheists dont have this problem as they dont actually speak irish.

    What on earth are you on about? I'm an atheist, and I speak Irish.


  • #48
    Daftendirekt
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,312 ✭✭✭Daftendirekt


    I just go with "O hai."

    It's international.


  • #49
    Solair
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,230 ✭✭✭Solair


    Haigh!!


  • #50
    Panrich
    Registered Users Posts: 3,763 ✭✭✭Panrich


    This really should be moved to After Hours. There are a few regulars over there who would be very disappointed to miss another chance at knocking Irish.


  • #51
    legspin
    Registered Users Posts: 1,018 ✭✭✭legspin


    sensibleken wrote: »
    If i ever have a son I'll definetely give him an irish name.

    I was thinking 'Timpiste'

    Second name Úfasach

    He'll probably be mates with Sneachta and Cabáiste.


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  • #52
    JuliusCaesar
    Registered Users Posts: 4,882 ✭✭✭JuliusCaesar


    Lá mhaith / maidin mhaith etc - good day / good morning etc


  • #53
    im invisible
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,373 ✭✭✭im invisible


    dlofnep wrote: »
    "Haigh" or "Bhuel" work just fine.
    'Árd', no 'tobar'


  • #54
    byhookorbycrook
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Regional South East Moderators Posts: 12,475 Mod ✭✭✭✭byhookorbycrook


    JuliusCaesar wrote: »
    Lá mhaith / maidin mhaith etc - good day / good morning etc
    Reminds me of the "lá breá"s as the original influx of those seeking to learn Irish in the Gaeltacht were known.


  • #55
    ShooterSF
    Registered Users Posts: 8,824 ✭✭✭ShooterSF


    Panrich wrote: »
    This really should be moved to After Hours. There are a few regulars over there who would be very disappointed to miss another chance at knocking Irish.

    I post here as an Atheist so allow me the honour. Language is a way of communicating ideas and information and allows us to share such so that we don't each have to invent the wheel. Irish served this purpose for a long time but is now little more than a novel skill for people to learn. Very few rely on it as their sole language so it's usefulness is questionable. It's current situation is that it is something that some patriotic people enjoy learning or would like to learn had the school system not crushed their enjoyment of it. Then there are others like myself who aren't very patriotic (it's rationality is a whole other subject) and can get angry with the multitude of wasted hours we were forced to try and learn a novel skill we had no desire to learn. The reason Irish gets a bashing is sometimes it's hard to separate the subject from the institution that forced it on you. Force people to learn something they later find useless and you get resentment.


  • #56
    Dave147
    Registered Users Posts: 3,235 ✭✭✭Dave147


    mikhail wrote: »
    How does an atheist say goodbye in English? Does he act like an idiot, or accept that it lost the meaning of God be with ye centuries ago?

    I'm sure an idiot knows how to say goodbye.


  • #57
    Sarky
    Closed Accounts Posts: 31,967 ✭✭✭✭Sarky


    I usually just squeal incoherently as both hello and goodbye. Problem solved, in any language.


  • #58
    Turtwig
    Registered Users Posts: 26,578 ✭✭✭✭Turtwig


    Dave147 wrote: »
    I'm sure an idiot knows how to say goodbye.

    They may know how but they never know when.


  • #59
    Liam1000
    Registered Users Posts: 14 ✭Liam1000


    Thanks for reviving my thread and your interesting replies guys!

    Cheers.


  • #60
    Banbh
    Registered Users Posts: 1,037 ✭✭✭Banbh


    I'm an atheist and an Irish speaker but when I catch my finger in the door I say: "JESUS CHRIST".


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  • #61
    Turtwig
    Registered Users Posts: 26,578 ✭✭✭✭Turtwig


    If you want you could practice once everyday where you get your fingers caught in the door and you keep the practice up until you learn to stop saying "Jesus Christ". That's if you want to of course. . .


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