Do you know what I mean?

pat_cork

I've noticed over the past couple of months that an awful amount of people seem to be saying do you know what I mean? There's nothing wrong with the phrase when said in normal English but when it's spoken quickly and pronounced like so "ja know wha I mean" it really gets on my nerves.

Please tell me I'm not alone in my dislike of this phrase and its increased prevalence in Cork?

woodoo

I say it but don't even say the first part it just comes out as ..know what i mean..

aujopimur

Gwan ye billix, d'know what I mean, ye langer.

My name is URL

I know a few people that can't help but say 'ya know?' several times a minute. Does my head in..

Freddie Dodge

What fcukin annoys me a lot more is this "I won't lie" mericanism which has appeared in the last year or so.

Sprog 4

This reminded me of this

"All my people right here right now...."

Ficheall

Yeah, but like, it's not like the worst of all the irritating like "fillers" which people just seem to like throw into every ****ing sentence like multiple times...

Peregrine

pat_cork wrote: »

Please tell me I'm not alone in my dislike of this phrase and its increased prevalence in Cork?

I don't mind it. It's just one of those fillers people use I suppose, ja know wha I mean, like?

I always thought it was particularly Corkonian(?) to say 'like' at the end of it though.

Mr. Incognito

I blame Eastenders.

Know mean.

snubbleste

Oh I know like, like dyanowarrimeeen like, it's a disgrace like at the end of the day, I mean like going forward like

con___manx1

U no wat I mean is a Dublin phrase originally.prety annoying all right

Femme_Fatale

"...if that makes sense".

"I just felt I'd better go home early as I was tired - if that makes sense."

Yes. It makes sense.

"You know what I mean" is not a "Dublin phrase originally", no.

RobbieTheRobber

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phlARmuD3Bs

orangesoda

Now i have liam gallagher whining in my mind

Nodster

kinda has a ring to it....know what I mean feen

djflawless

pat_cork wrote: »

I've noticed over the past couple of months that an awful amount of people seem to be saying do you know what I mean? There's nothing wrong with the phrase when said in normal English but when it's spoken quickly and pronounced like so "ja know wha I mean" it really gets on my nerves.

Please tell me I'm not alone in my dislike of this phrase and its increased prevalence in Cork?

Its been turned "no da mane" here

amdublin

Ju know what I mean.

Yes I do but was there any need to ask me it twice in that sentence?

MJ23

That Paddy Knacker fella says "know wadda mane" in every sentence.

Frank Lee Midere

Do you know what I mean is English. I won't lie is welsh I think. These things move around.

.Henry Sellers.

"Dew yaa no wha I meeen" with an outward wrist role directed at you.

Sauve

I love all those sayings

I've a thing for accents anyway, so it probably comes from that. It livens up a conversation and makes it a lot more interesting when people throw in their own little words

Adamantium

If anybody has watched ever watched Threads, the whole grunting and primitive language is what is the eventual conclusion of this behaviour. :pac:

Actually it's just a lazy way of not being able to articulate yourself and focus, and expecting the other person to do the legwork for you, because you know being gifted by one infinitely complex supercomputer learning brain isn't enough

It's just something that people use when you know the other person isn't all that interested in the conversation and you know the other person isn't understanding at all, whenever I use it it's a sure sign that I'm already losing/have lost the conversation. It makes the argument you have weak imo, knowing you need it reaffirmed by somebody, other than yourself.

Sauve

Adamantium wrote: »

Actually it's just a lazy way of not being able to articulate yourself and focus, and expecting the other person to do the legwork for you, because you know being gifted by one infinitely complex supercomputer learning brain isn't enough

No it's not!
As long as they've gotten their point across, sure isn't that all that matters?

snubbleste

While watching the handling of MH370 investigation; a translation of a Chinese fella's reaction finished with "It's a joke"

I thought this was an irish idiom?

Santa Cruz

It's nearly as bad as that Cork habit "in all fairness" Whatever the **** that means no worra I mean

stoneill

The used to be an advertisement on the sides of buses with a Jim Fitzpatrick painting of Phil Lynott saying "Maxell are the best, youknowharramean"

topper75

It's a nervous tick I think.

I listened to some lad giving movie reviews as Gaeilge on the radio and heard lots of Béarla "yeknew" interspersed in his nervously-spewed verbal diarrhea.

He really needed to tóg it go bog é, yeknew?

Also ref. the rough diamonds that Paddy O'Gorman interviews outside the dole office. The mic makes them nervous and je knowarra me-an becomes every second sentence.

Donkey Oaty

snubbleste wrote: »

While watching the handling of MH370 investigation; a translation of a Chinese fella's reaction finished with "It's a joke"

I thought this was an irish idiom?

C'mere to me, stop the lights - you are thinking of "It's an absolute joke, Joe".

Agricola

I know its a natural human trait to subconsciously copy the mannerisms of others, but fúck sake I can't fathom how anyone could keep saying "jaknowwhatimanelike" at the end of every 2nd sentence. I'd see about getting a scan for possible brain injury if I started that.

wil

Yes I do know what you mean.

I think it's highly disrespectful not to acknowledge it, each and every time.:pac:

rockbeast

OP

It's "DjaaarNoooo(!)whaarAyeMAAne"...

You spelled it incorrectly.

I'm not a spelling nazi BUT(:P) the Dublin West massive would never forgive me if I didn't point out your error...

Teyla Emmagan

GAA fellows being interviewed on the radio do this incessantly, ya know?

Wotsername

Adamantium wrote: »

If anybody has watched ever watched Threads, the whole grunting and primitive language is what is the eventual conclusion of this behaviour. :pac:

Actually it's just a lazy way of not being able to articulate yourself and focus, and expecting the other person to do the legwork for you,

What?

rockbeast

Wotsername wrote: »

What?

I don't know why he/she brought Threads into this thread but it is the scariest thing you could ever watch. Don't. Especially considering what's going on in the Ukraine at the moment.

I am serious. For once, at least.

Timmyctc

Know what ah meen
1.14

All phil daniels fault

rockbeast

Timmyctc wrote: »

Know what ah meen
1.14

All phil daniels fault

Fackin cock-knees!

Legs.Eleven

I use it all the time. Comes out like, "DeyeknowwhaImean?"

Uriel.

I recently noticed that I've adopted the "I suppose" syndrome.

Seemingly out of nowhere non recent years it has crept increasingly into my vocab, particularly in giving talks, making presentations or hosting meetings in work.

Don't know how or why it suddenly started,but I'm now very conscious of it, but yet can't seem to curtail it.

FudgeBrownie

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GYLDLAHW-4
Reminds me of this. I feel like this sometimes haha!

rockbeast

Uriel. wrote: »

I recently noticed that I've adopted the "I suppose" syndrome.

Seemingly out of nowhere non recent years it has crept increasingly into my vocab, particularly in giving talks, making presentations or hosting meetings in work.

Don't know how or why it suddenly started,but I'm now very conscious of it, but yet can't seem to curtail it.

I suppose you're right!

Foreign friends say all Dubs (like me) say, "Emm, but"...

beano345

Legs.Eleven wrote: »

I use it all the time. Comes out like, "DeyeknowwhaImean?"

I'm a hoor for it as well its either "ya know" or " narwarimean?" At the end of every sentence!

topper75

Teyla Emmagan wrote: »

GAA fellows being interviewed on the radio do this incessantly, ya know?

Uriel. wrote: »

I recently noticed that I've adopted the "I suppose" syndrome.

The standard GAA media guff writes itself these days -

"Ah yeah Marty I suppose .... knew they would come out fighting you know... and you know tried to lift it in the second half ... luckily saw Tommy at the far post you know ..."

Scotty P

No Ragrets!