Using Irish day to day

mikemac

Yes I know we have a specfic forum but it's a general question. And I've started plently of threads here but this isn't one I've seen started

Do you use Irish during the day?
For my own example, we get hundreds of emails a day in work. My teamates ask when is my lunch slot and I'd reply "12:30 for mise".
Or someone who email me and tells me I've to redo some work and I'd reply "Cén fáth?".

I'm far, far from a fluent speaker. And it's not a case that I'm trying to show off what very limited knowledge I have. It's just what I do and I'm not alone in this. Just seems normal, that's all

So boardsies, do you use Irish day to day?
What I was in Galway, I'd be served my pint and be told Sinn e.

phasers

That makes me think of **** who use French words in an English conversation. Dropping Irish words into an English conversation is stupid imo

wudangclan

do mathair

Random

It's like people in work who I hear saying "Slan" when they're done on the phone. No harm done if they're easily recognisable words (to the vast majority) IMO, depends how you deliver them and in what context though.

I certainly wouldn't consider saying "mise" or "cen fath?" to be "using Irish day to day" in any real sense.

Four-Percent

pourquoi?

phasers

Four-Percent wrote: »

pourquoi?

que?

Diabhal Beag

I always do it mar is maith liom bheith ag caint le mo chairde in English freisin.


Learn the language or you can't really consider yourself 100% Irish

AckwelFoley

using that "Jibba jabba mombo jumbo hippy shyte" in Athlone will get you kicked in the head.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

Whatzzup mah niggah?

mikemac

Random wrote: »

I certainly wouldn't consider saying "mise" or "cen fath?" to be "using Irish day to day" in any real sense.

Agreed, it's not far from the limit of my knowledge.
As I posted, it just seems normal to me, I ain't someone from a David McWilliams book who use Irish to show off, my knowledge wouldn't be good enough for that.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

mikemac wrote: »

Agreed, it's not far from the limit of my knowledge.
As I posted, it just seems normal to me, I amn't someone from a David McWilliams book who uses Irish to show off, my knowledge wouldn't be good enough for that.

FYEnglish:pac:

Saibh

Ikky Poo2 wrote: »

Whatzzup mah niggah?

Ikky Poo2 wrote: »

FYEnglish

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staker

Irish has never served any purpose in my life except to antagonise me through that fat b**** from kerry and "ANOIS",the wannabe tabloid.
Don't mind others using it though.

O'Coonassa

Little Shyte wrote: »

Learn the language or you can't really consider yourself 100% Irish

:rolleyes:
Ivernic?

RHunce

yeah i replace a few words for irish words and sometimes german too!

Chelle1

I would have to say I don't use Irish much on a daily basis. however I would try to use the few words that I remember during Seachtain Na Gaeilge. Although I think I may start trying to use it more often, as I just enrolled my son in the local Gael Scoil.

I do think Irish is becoming a lot more trendy today than when I was trying to learn it back in school and I certainly don't see the harm in throwing in a couple of obvious words here and there.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

Saibh wrote: »

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You have either failed to notice the colloquialism of my first post or actually make a post yourself....

AckwelFoley

Ikky Poo2 wrote: »

Whatzzup mah niggah?

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phasers

snyper wrote: »

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racist

My name is URL

Admitting that it's a dead language is admitting that evolution exists

SEPT 23 1989

no thank god

Uncle Arthur

snyper wrote: »

using that "Jibba jabba mombo jumbo hippy shyte" in Athlone will get you kicked in the head.

i thought people in athlone perfectly understood jibba jabba mombo jumbo and used it on an everyday basis ::pac:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDOoEIfADfs

tony1kenobi

mikemac wrote: »

Using Irish day to day

I didn't even know today was Irish day. Could I have got off work?

Joey the lips

An bhfuil cead agam dul go dtí an leithreas ?

themadchef

I speak Irish (quite badly, admittedly ) almost every day. Feck the lot of yee

phasers

Joey the lips wrote: »

An bhfuil cead agam dul go dtí an leithreas ?

I don't know, can you?

Joey the lips

Thank god the best thing ever to happen to Irish was it became a reconised european language. I know the daft fcukers on this thread that would like to see it's demise would not understand the consequences of this but it means if your future brainy son or daughter wants to get a job in europe having Irish and english they will only need one more language!

Equal rights for all!

AckwelFoley

Uncle Arthur wrote: »

i thought people in athlone perfectly understood jibba jabba mombo jumbo and used it on an everyday basis ::pac:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDOoEIfADfs

dude.. thats old

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Witcher

Little Shyte wrote: »

Learn the language or you can't really consider yourself 100% Irish

Pardon my Irish but..Fcuk off:pac:

Jet Black

I was in a bar in town and there was this hot american girl with an Irish phrase book, she was sitting close to me and I said are you trying to learn Irish, she was only over for two weeks but was trying to learn Irish anyway. I helped her with the pronunciation. I did not bother to tell her that no one in Dublin really ever speaks in Irish. But still impressed she wanted to learn it.

Naos

Yup, am pretty bad but would use it as often as I can. I do think it's important and should be used more often around the country.

Tír gan teanga, tír gan anam.

humanji

Little Shyte wrote: »

Learn the language or you can't really consider yourself 100% Irish

And yet some see Irish speakers as pretentious. I just don't understand it.

LittleEve

Nah I never really liked the language throughout school, i have enough trouble with english

stovelid

phasers wrote: »

That makes me think of **** who use French words in an English conversation. Dropping Irish words into an English conversation is stupid imo

Like Irish people who can't just say croissant - they have to say CWWWWWWASSSSSON.

Beating offence, really.

conchubhar1

phasers wrote: »

I don't know, can you?

cead is permission - FAIL

dlofnep

I speak Irish every day, but I have the benefit of having friends who are fluent. I started up a conversational group in my city about a year and a half ago to give me more time to use it. I love Irish

markopantelic

i try not to speak english as much as possible-french and irish for me. I despise English.

conchubhar1

dlofnep wrote: »

I love Irish

grá don teanga - fuath leis na daoine in aghaidh an ghaeilge (seoinín's)

kumate_champ07

phasers wrote: »

That makes me think of **** who use French words in an English conversation. Dropping Irish words into an English conversation is stupid imo

are they french?

kumate_champ07

ive heard irish bein spoken on the tram a few times, it was easy to understand so im guessing they were from galway or local

Crumble Froo

yep, i do. not as much now that i live in new zealand, but i've managed to teach my kiwi b/f to say 'please', 'thankyou', 'bless you' and 'cup of tea please with milk and sugar'. granted, it's taken over a year now, but he's doing quite well.

i mutter to myself as gaeilge quite regularly at work, and have taught my boss 'oh my god' and 'rubbish bin', but that's about the extent of it now.

had to brush up on me aul gaeilge yesterday, got a 4pg letter from my sister entirely in irish. managed to write back with no dictionary or anything, was quite proud of myself.

Rented Mule

Mask wrote: »

I was in a bar in town and there was this hot american girl with an Irish phrase book, she was sitting close to me and I said are you trying to learn Irish, she was only over for two weeks but was trying to learn Irish anyway. I helped her with the pronunciation. I did not bother to tell her that no one in Dublin really ever speaks in Irish. But still impressed she wanted to learn it.

She obviously didn't get the memo.

We just call Des Bishop for all of our translations now.

Nodin

phasers wrote: »

Dropping Irish words into an English conversation is stupid imo

Hmmmm. Why?

Joey the lips

Nodin wrote: »

Hmmmm. Why?

Cen Faith?

because he does not speak the language so he thinks that everybody else should be iggnorant towards it also!

You meat a bit of that from time to time, you just got to rise above it and realise that if everyone was that way we would speak norman or something sh1t like that!

conchubhar1

why would we speak norman? - i presume you mean french

Joey the lips

conchubhar1 wrote: »

why would we speak norman? - i presume you mean french

No I knew what I ment! The orig language of the Normans was not french! I just cannot remember what it was so it was easier to say norman but if your questioning you catch my jist do no point in over analysis.

Mr.Lizard

I'd love to be fluent in Irish. Unfortunately the place I learned to speak the language was school.

conchubhar1

a norse language?

thats an even more ludicrous claim

johnny_knoxvile

Tà a làn gruaige ar mo lìroitdhì...

...i tried at least.

conchubhar1

Mr.Lizard wrote: »

I'd love to be able to speak Irish. Unfortunately I learned the language at school.

níl sé ró-déanach-its not too late

conchubhar1

johnny_knoxvile wrote: »

Tà a làn gruaige ar mo lìroitdhì...

...i tried at least.

maith an cailín


how did you get the backwards accents - will come in handy for gaelic (scots)