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Imagine if we all spoke Irish

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    #242
    Whiskey Devil
    Registered Users Posts: 908 ✭✭✭Whiskey Devil


    Ok thanks, I'll get to work on that. I really hope you think I'm funny.


    :rolleyes:


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    #243
    Dionysus
    Registered Users Posts: 3,420 ✭✭✭Dionysus


    asdasd wrote: »
    He's great, and acknowledged as such in the UK.

    What does it matter if he is "acknowledged as such in the UK"? I can think of many supposedly 'great' things 'acknowledged as such in the UK' throughout the centuries that were assuredly not 'great' in the view of the average Irish person.


    Dara is very very funny, in my opinion. That's all I need to enjoy him.


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    #244
    Hasschu
    Registered Users Posts: 411 ✭✭Hasschu


    Foreign languages are for people who want to get on with life. Irish is for people who cannot let go of the past. I am totally neutral on the subject and neither support or denigrate whatever position one wants to take. I just wish that Irish could rest in peace like Latin to be studied by historians and linguists who would actually get some benefit and enjoyment from it.


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    #245
    Kev_ps3
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,604 ✭✭✭Kev_ps3


    Hasschu wrote: »
    Foreign languages are for people who want to get on with life. Irish is for people who cannot let go of the past. I am totally neutral on the subject and neither support or denigrate whatever position one wants to take. I just wish that Irish could rest in peace like Latin to be studied by historians and linguists who would actually get some benefit and enjoyment from it.

    What a load on nonsence. You come across as neutral as the bigot Ian Paisley on the subject tbh.
    There is no reason why we cant learn two languages. One for the natives and one for 'people who want to get on with life':rolleyes:


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    #246
    jill_valentine
    Registered Users Posts: 7,090 ✭✭✭jill_valentine


    Dionysus wrote: »
    What does it matter if he is "acknowledged as such in the UK"? I can think of many supposedly 'great' things 'acknowledged as such in the UK' throughout the centuries that were assuredly not 'great' in the view of the average Irish person.


    Dara is very very funny, in my opinion. That's all I need to enjoy him.

    Given the topic at hand, I think it might have been a poor choice of words, but I think what the poster meant is that O'Briain is perhaps more popular abroad than he is here


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    #247
    Princess Consuela Bananahammock
    Registered Users Posts: 33,043 ✭✭✭✭Princess Consuela Bananahammock


    Kev_ps3 wrote: »
    What a load on nonsence. You come across as neutral as the bigot Ian Paisley on the subject tbh.
    There is no reason why we cant learn two languages. One for the natives and one for 'people who want to get on with life':rolleyes:

    Aren't you the one who said, and I quote, "discard the language of the invader"?

    Everything I don't like is either woke or fascist - possibly both - pick one.



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    #248
    asdasd
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,185 ✭✭✭asdasd


    What does it matter if he is "acknowledged as such in the UK"?

    It matters because were he only famous here, we could put it down to parochialism. He did a star turn in Cananda some time ago, as well. It also matters because the UK has a very very competitive stand up/ Comedic environment at the moment, and there is a hell of a lot of competition out there , most of it very good. So if he holds his own there, he is clearly talented.


    This is way off topic, but I really dont get the knocking of a decent Irish sucess story.


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    #249
    3hn2givr7mx1sc
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,838 ✭✭✭✭3hn2givr7mx1sc


    It would be class. Could ya imagine French or Spanish or German children trying ta learn Irish?:D


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    #250
    Kev_ps3
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,604 ✭✭✭Kev_ps3


    Ikky Poo2 wrote: »
    Aren't you the one who said, and I quote, "discard the language of the invader"?

    Eventually;)


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    #251
    dlofnep
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,759 ✭✭✭✭dlofnep


    Hasschu wrote: »
    Irish is for people who cannot let go of the past.

    Or it might be just for people who want to speak Irish?


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    #252
    Whiskey Devil
    Registered Users Posts: 908 ✭✭✭Whiskey Devil


    asdasd wrote: »

    This is way off topic, but I really dont get the knocking of a decent Irish sucess story.

    I'm not knocking him because he's Irish and he's successful. I'm knocking him because I think he's a **** comedian and he annoys me.


    I don't particularly care what anybody else thinks about him.


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    #253
    thelordofcheese
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,368 ✭✭✭thelordofcheese


    Kev_ps3 wrote: »
    Eventually;)

    You're like a bottomless pit of terrible ideas, it's quite amazing really.


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    #254
    enniscorthy
    Registered Users Posts: 1,046 ✭✭✭enniscorthy


    enniscorthy wrote: »
    went over to london lived there through 70s/80s so never really got a chance to learn it then came back here late 80s.1 day a thing comes through the letterbox.irish classes in local gaa centre hehehehehehe:D. i said what the hell i forked up me 10 pound at the time for first class,went down had 1 snob of a teacher simply dreadful she was a secondary school teacher by day wouldnt you know:confused: hehehehehahahahah:P class full of gaa heads and bar room republicans givin out about a province they have never even been to hehehehehehahahahahah:p anyway needless to say i didnt last song hohohoh but hey still managed to pick up a word or 2 but seriously dont even get me started on tg4 what a load of LIATHROIDÍ hehehehehehhehehehehehehahahahahahhaaahohohohohohohohohho;);););):D:D:D:D:D:eek:

    good 1


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    #255
    BuachaillAbroad
    Registered Users Posts: 32 ✭BuachaillAbroad


    Dawson White Pronoun wrote: »
    It would be class. Could ya imagine French or Spanish or German children trying ta learn Irish?:D

    Hi,

    Not Irish spoken by a German, but German spoken by a thick accented Irish man...

    BuachaillAbroad

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CL3St4broAY


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    #256
    Joey the lips
    Registered Users Posts: 10,262 ✭✭✭✭Joey the lips


    Ahhh Conas at tu?

    me fein?

    Ta me go maith!

    tu?

    boff!


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    #257
    Rebelheart
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,077 ✭✭✭Rebelheart


    BuachaillAbroad wrote: »
    Hi,

    Not Irish spoken by a German, but German spoken by a thick accented Irish man...

    BuachaillAbroad

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CL3St4broAY

    Good craic listening to those three lads speaking German. I've the height of respect for anybody who makes the effort to move to a non-English speaking country.

    I've never seen a programme about it but during WWII German children were brought to Ireland as refugees. In the Corca Dhuibhne gaeltacht today I know one of these and she was brought up speaking Irish and has made her home there ever since.


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    #258
    Pal
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,115 ✭✭✭Pal


    http://ga.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pr%C3%ADomhleathanach

    wikipedia in Irish.

    ha ha

    who writes this stuff ?

    why bother ?

    who cares ?


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    #259
    Rebelheart
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,077 ✭✭✭Rebelheart


    Pal wrote: »
    why bother ? who cares ?

    Are they reflections on your own existence, per chance?


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    #260
    dlofnep
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,759 ✭✭✭✭dlofnep


    Pal wrote: »
    wikipedia in Irish.

    And 235 other languages, imagine that?
    Pal wrote: »
    who writes this stuff ?

    Well, it's hardly the French.
    Pal wrote: »
    why bother ?

    Why does anybody bother to contribute to a wikipedia article? To share information with the world it would seem.
    Pal wrote: »
    who cares ?

    The people who read it, obviously. And given the mass amount of contributions in Irish - I would say, many people care.


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    #261
    Princess Consuela Bananahammock
    Registered Users Posts: 33,043 ✭✭✭✭Princess Consuela Bananahammock


    Pal wrote: »
    http://ga.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pr%C3%ADomhleathanach

    wikipedia in Irish.

    ha ha

    who writes this stuff ?

    why bother ?

    who cares ?

    Oddly enough, the guy who tranlates it is an American. PM him if you like...
    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/member.php?u=4653

    Everything I don't like is either woke or fascist - possibly both - pick one.



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    #262
    Rebelheart
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,077 ✭✭✭Rebelheart


    Ikky Poo2 wrote: »
    Oddly enough, the guy who tranlates it is an American. PM him if you like...
    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/member.php?u=4653

    Yes "it", the entire Irish Wikipedia. That's some man!


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    #263
    Princess Consuela Bananahammock
    Registered Users Posts: 33,043 ✭✭✭✭Princess Consuela Bananahammock


    Rebelheart wrote: »
    Yes "it", the entire Irish Wikipedia. That's some man!

    Never said he did it alone (or has, even, trasnlated the entrie site). I am serious, by the way.

    Everything I don't like is either woke or fascist - possibly both - pick one.



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    #264
    orourkeda
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,919 ✭✭✭✭orourkeda


    Will somebody please kill the irish language.


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    #265
    Micilin Muc
    Registered Users Posts: 2,842 ✭✭✭Micilin Muc


    orourkeda wrote: »
    Will somebody please kill the irish language.

    On your own! Or at least a 6.7% minority of the population!


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