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  • 26-11-2011 11:58pm
    #1
    zero_hope
    Closed Accounts Posts: 110 ✭✭


    Why do Irish people always say you're after X or I'm after X to describe and activity that has happened? It sounds very strange? I'm after posting a thread on After Hours


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  • #2
    John Doe1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,921 ✭✭✭John Doe1


    Shaddupayaface:p


  • #3
    Mr.Crinklewood
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,593 ✭✭✭✭Mr.Crinklewood


    "S" and "E" broken on their keyboards?


  • #4
    galwayrush
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,815 ✭✭✭✭galwayrush


    zero_hope wrote: »
    Why do Irish people always say you're after X or I'm after X to describe and activity that has happened? It sounds very strange? I'm after posting a thread on After Hours

    Your post is strange, and you said after :D


  • #5
    cruiser178
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,654 ✭✭✭cruiser178


    im just gona give my bacardi bottle a big cuddle


  • #6
    Sky King
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,431 ✭✭✭Sky King


    zero_hope wrote: »
    Why do Irish people always say you're after X or I'm after X to describe and activity that has happened? It sounds very strange? I'm after posting a thread on After Hours

    It's a direct translation from the irish language. An irish person would say for example I am only after coming in, and englishman would say I've just come in and wouldn't have a fucking clue what we are on about.


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  • #7
    HeidiHeidi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,043 ✭✭✭✭HeidiHeidi


    Sky King wrote: »
    It's a direct translation from the irish language. An irish person would say for example I am only after coming in, and englishman would say I've just come in and wouldn't have a fucking clue what we are on about.

    Ya beat me to it!

    Tá mé tar éis é a dheanamh.... I'm after doing it.

    I think it'd be a shame if we lost those quirks of the language.


  • #8
    No.125
    Closed Accounts Posts: 72 ✭✭No.125


    what you mean? like " im after riding your ma" or im after riding your miss's? that?


  • #9
    Sky King
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,431 ✭✭✭Sky King


    HeidiHeidi wrote: »
    I think it'd be a shame if we lost those quirks of the language.

    Agreed. I lived with Amercians though and got used to speaking properly as a result becuuse they couldn't understand me otherwise... one would be astounded to know just how many of those little quirks we have. It's a whole other dialect really.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiberno-English


  • #10
    tempura
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 604 ✭✭✭tempura


    We also say " do be " a lot. Like I do be knackered at the end of the day, or more appropriatley for this forum " I do be knackered after ridin yer ma "


  • #11
    Chuck Stone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,030 ✭✭✭✭Chuck Stone


    Sky King wrote: »
    It's a direct translation from the irish language. An irish person would say for example I am only after coming in, and englishman would say I've just come in and wouldn't have a fucking clue what we are on about.

    That's really interesting.

    Are there any books about how we Irish folk speak English influenced by our original tongue.

    I have no Irish unfortunately.

    Born in Norn Iron (no Irish taught in primary school) moved to south - too far behind kinda thing.


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  • #12
    stupidusername
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,762 ✭✭✭✭stupidusername


    or i think it's quite nice how older generations say with instead of for... like i've been riding yore ma with years


  • #13
    Sky King
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,431 ✭✭✭Sky King


    Chuck Stone wrote: »
    Are there any books about how we Irish folk speak English influenced by our original tongue..

    I find it very interesting as well. Loads of info on that wikipedia page if you check that out. Only books I am aware of are the crappy slang ones.


  • #14
    Chuck Stone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,030 ✭✭✭✭Chuck Stone


    Sky King wrote: »
    I find it very interesting as well. Loads of info on that wikipedia page if you check that out. Only books I am aware of are the crappy slang ones.

    Was just reading it. Fascinating stuff. First reference looks like it's a book on Hiberno-English.

    Will investigate further whit less drink in the belly. :)


  • #15
    strobe
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,872 ✭✭✭strobe


    Sky King wrote: »
    [...]lived with Amercians [...]got used to speaking properly as a result. [...]

    Heh.

    I get jokes.


  • #16
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    I hate when people add something along the lines of:

    "so i am" at the end of a sentence. :mad:


  • #17
    El Weirdo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,647 ✭✭✭✭El Weirdo


    Deleted User wrote: »
    I hate when people add something along the lines of:

    "so i am" at the end of a sentence. :mad:
    So do I, so I do.


  • #18
    W77
    Closed Accounts Posts: 25 ✭W77


    Sky King wrote: »
    Agreed. I lived with Amercians though and got used to speaking properly as a result becuuse they couldn't understand me otherwise... one would be astounded to know just how many of those little quirks we have. It's a whole other dialect really.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiberno-English

    BS. Irish people have always sold out all throughout time. They've traded their language and sovereignty to the Zionists.


  • #19
    John Doe1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,921 ✭✭✭John Doe1


    W77 wrote: »
    BS. Irish people have always sold out all throughout time. They've traded their language and sovereignty to the Zionists.

    Zionists? Give me a break. Are you sure its not the reptilians or other things whih youve seen on a biased documentary and taken as fact


  • #20
    Sky King
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,431 ✭✭✭Sky King


    BS. Irish people have always sold out all throughout time.
    Buh? All I am saying is that around Americans, I had to make a conscious effort to speak more clearly so that they could understand me. Don't know how that's "selling out".


  • #21
    Dudess
    Closed Accounts Posts: 37,214 ✭✭✭✭Dudess


    Yep, there was a big scuffle in a bar one time and I asked an English guy "What's after happening?" He didn't understand me. :)


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  • #22
    Immaculate Pasta
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,663 ✭✭✭Immaculate Pasta


    It's Hiberno-English ya bollix.


  • #23
    Dudess
    Closed Accounts Posts: 37,214 ✭✭✭✭Dudess


    Sky King wrote: »
    BS. Irish people have always sold out all throughout time.
    Buh? All I am saying is that around Americans, I had to make a conscious effort to speak more clearly so that they could understand me. Don't know how that's "selling out".
    Take no notice of the nutter. :)

    I wonder will there be any mention from him of liberal Irish sheeple?


  • #24
    biko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,220 ✭✭✭✭biko


    English


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