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English to Irish translation? Any good at the auld Irish?

  • 10-03-2016 1:04am
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    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 794 ✭✭✭


    I need to say something like the following (but it doesn't need to be word for word if an Irish equivalent exists)

    If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you then you'll be a man my son.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    I need to say something like the following (but it doesn't need to be word for word if an Irish equivalent exists)

    If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you then you'll be a man my son.

    Rudyard Kipling was a right fella, but a bit of a cnut at the same time.





    You can't get more Irish than that


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,681 ✭✭✭bodice ripper


    Please tell me it's not for a tattoo...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,939 ✭✭✭ballsymchugh


    I need to say something like the following (but it doesn't need to be word for word if an Irish equivalent exists)

    If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you then you'll be a man my son.

    más féidir leat do cloigeann a coimead nuair a bhfuil cách á cailleadh agus thú a chur faoi locht, ansin déanfadh fear asat.

    nó rud éigin mar sin..


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 794 ✭✭✭TheHillOfDoom


    No it's not a tattoo.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,754 ✭✭✭✭Princess Consuela Bananahammock


    Homer, that you?

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



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,410 ✭✭✭✭endacl


    An bhfuil cead agam dul go dtí an leithreas, agus cáca milis scamaill sa spéir, mahogany gaspipes.

    Not an exact translation, but the sentiment remains intact.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 794 ✭✭✭TheHillOfDoom


    endacl wrote: »
    An bhfuil cead agam dul go dtí an leithreas, agus cáca milis scamaill sa spéir, mahogany gaspipes.

    Not an exact translation, but the sentiment remains intact.

    It may come as a great surprise that A: I got a B in Higher Level Irish in da leavin' and B: I translate another language into English at work, so, chuir do méar i mo thóin.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    It may come as a great surprise that A: I got a B in Higher Level Irish in da leavin' and B: I translate another language into English at work, so, chuir do méar i mo thóin.

    Kinky!


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 794 ✭✭✭TheHillOfDoom


    Kinky!

    Stinky.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    Stinky.

    Whatever flotai do currach


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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 794 ✭✭✭TheHillOfDoom


    Look - I translate professionally, so I know I need to leave this to an expert Irish speaker (you always translate into your native tongue). Thanks for the help.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,410 ✭✭✭✭endacl


    It may come as a great surprise that A: I got a B in Higher Level Irish in da leavin' and B: I translate another language into English at work, so, chuir do méar i mo thóin.

    'I do thóin', nach bhfuil?!?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,410 ✭✭✭✭endacl


    Look - I translate professionally, so I know I need to leave this to an expert Irish speaker (you always translate into your native tongue). Thanks for the help.

    Jaysus. No need to be snippy. You obviously don't use basic search functions professionally, or you might have found this forum...

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=31

    ... which you're welcome to chuir in aon áit you like...


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    Look - I translate professionally, so I know I need to leave this to an expert Irish speaker (you always translate into your native tongue). Thanks for the help.

    Houl your wheesht a wee minute there bucko, this isn't a professional forum, we're all here for the craic and to help a fellow traveller out if we can. I'd love to be wandering about a big fancy nightclub right now chasing youngwans right now, but instead I'm here helping you translate stupid English phrases whilst I'm trying to figure out how to salvage the pallets I saw in the moss today for kindling for my fire without bogging my quad.

    So cut us a wee bit of slack, right?


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 794 ✭✭✭TheHillOfDoom


    endacl wrote: »
    'I do thóin', nach bhfuil?!?

    Depends on your preference.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,202 ✭✭✭colossus-x


    Why would one want to translate a very well know beautiful verse from English into a very well less regarded language such as Irish?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,410 ✭✭✭✭endacl


    colossus-x wrote: »
    Why would one(?) want to translate a very well known and beautiful verse from English into a very well less regarded language such as Irish?
    Oh the irony...

    :pac:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,754 ✭✭✭✭Princess Consuela Bananahammock


    Look - I translate professionally, so I know I need to leave this to an expert Irish speaker (you always translate into your native tongue). Thanks for the help.

    Expert and native tongue are two different things.

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



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,507 ✭✭✭ArtyC


    colossus-x wrote: »
    Why would want to translate a very well know beautiful vers from English into a very well less regarded language such as Irish?

    Why would you click on the tread just to bash Irish. Pathetic


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 48,990 ✭✭✭✭Lithium93_


    I need to say something like the following (but it doesn't need to be word for word if an Irish equivalent exists)

    If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you then you'll be a man my son.

    Má choinníonn tú do chloigeann agus é uilig ag dul dtí diabhal, agus an milleán a chur ort, beidh tú I d'fhearr..

    That's what I'd say for the bolded part, hopefully it's some help to ya.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 48,990 ✭✭✭✭Lithium93_


    ArtyC wrote: »
    Why would you click on the tread just to bash Irish. Pathetic

    Ignore him, and he'll go away...


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    Tá dhá tairbh suas ar an chnoc ag stánadh síos ar a dtréad . Deir an tarbh óg don tarbh sean " Hey a ligean ar siúl síos ann tapaidh fíor agus a **** ar cheann de na ba ! "
    Deir an tarbh sean " Nah , ligeann siúl síos ....... agus ag **** em go léir "


    **** is Irish for shag


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,410 ✭✭✭✭endacl



    **** is Irish for shag
    The species of cormorant?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,202 ✭✭✭colossus-x


    ArtyC wrote: »
    Why would you click on the tread just to bash Irish. Pathetic

    Just to annoy people who think Irish is a rich language and think English is rubbish.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,410 ✭✭✭✭endacl


    colossus-x wrote: »
    Just to annoy people who think Irish is a rich language and think English is rubbish.

    That'd be a tiny intersection on anyone's Venn diagram....


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,202 ✭✭✭colossus-x


    endacl wrote: »
    Oh the irony...

    :pac:

    ?

    Obviously you prefer to converse in the common tongue.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    endacl wrote: »
    The species of cormorant?

    I wasn't taught dirty words so I don't know. I was mostly taught by the best teachers of Irish in Donegal, probably in Ireland considering how well their students do in competitions . . . Protestants!:P


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 794 ✭✭✭TheHillOfDoom


    Spot who failed Irish.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,410 ✭✭✭✭endacl


    colossus-x wrote: »
    ?

    Obviously you prefer to converse in the common tongue.

    That would depend entirely on with whom I were conversing.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    Spot who failed Irish.

    You can't expect a dog to be bilingual.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    You can't expect a dog to be bilingual.

    That you mention it, I know a man who says he met a bilingual dog.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,410 ✭✭✭✭endacl


    You can't expect a dog to be bilingual.

    Wasn't the gaelgeoir madra always called Bran?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,202 ✭✭✭colossus-x


    endacl wrote: »
    That'd be a tiny intersection on anyone's Venn diagram....

    I'd hope so.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,202 ✭✭✭colossus-x


    You can't expect a dog to be bilingual.

    You wouldn't expect them to be nationalist either.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    I need to say something like the following (but it doesn't need to be word for word if an Irish equivalent exists)

    If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you then you'll be a man my son.

    Why not keep it short and sweet?

    Tog go bog e. ( sorry, no sine fada here.)


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    endacl wrote: »
    Wasn't the gaelgeoir madra always called Bran?

    Aye, was in some of the oul stories wasn't it?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    colossus-x wrote: »
    You wouldn't expect them to be nationalist either.

    Who said anything about nationalism? What has that to do with it?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,410 ✭✭✭✭endacl


    feargale wrote: »
    Who said anything about nationalism? What has that to do with it?

    Poster is confused as to what he's against. Don't mention the war.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    colossus-x wrote: »
    You wouldn't expect them to be nationalist either.

    I dunno, my wee Lucky has far more good honest humble genuine warm Irish blood in her than manys an eejit you encounter about the place.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,654 ✭✭✭greedygoblin


    Aye, was in some of the oul stories wasn't it?

    Fionn Mac Cumhaill and the Salmon of Knowledge wasn't it?


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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 794 ✭✭✭TheHillOfDoom


    feargale wrote: »
    Why not keep it short and sweet?

    Tog go bog e. ( sorry, no sine fada here.)

    Doesn't convey the sentiment.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,202 ✭✭✭colossus-x


    I dunno, my wee Lucky has far more good honest humble genuine warm Irish blood in her than manys an eejit you encounter about the place.

    Warm Irish blood? And someone asked what nationalism has to do with anything. Haha. Weird the way some people think.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 794 ✭✭✭TheHillOfDoom


    Essentially, the sentiment I'm trying to portray is that despite being ridiculed/doubted/accused, I know the truth in my own heart and that that's enough for me.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 794 ✭✭✭TheHillOfDoom


    '**** the lot of yis' basically. In Irish. Classy Irish.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    colossus-x wrote: »
    Warm Irish blood? And someone asked what nationalism has to do with anything. Haha. Weird the way some people think.

    Exactly. You just defeated your own argument:P


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 794 ✭✭✭TheHillOfDoom


    Jesus Christ - does everything descend into an Irish/English fight here? Grow up.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    colossus-x wrote: »
    Just to annoy people who think Irish is a rich language and think English is rubbish.

    Who did you ever hear saying English is rubbish? A guy opens a thread to make a simple enquiry about translating something and you start a diatribe which has nothing to do with his question. What kind of mentality does it take to do that? Not an educated one, that's for sure. Your posts make you sound about 12 years old. They are immature and bigoted.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,202 ✭✭✭colossus-x


    feargale wrote: »
    Who did you ever hear saying English is rubbish? A guy opens a thread to make a simple enquiry about translating something and you start a diatribe which has nothing to do with his question. What kind of mentality does it take to do that? Not an educated one, that's for sure. Your posts make you sound about 12 years old. They are immature and bigoted.

    I started a diatribe? Your post is a diatribe.

    I always find it quite amusing the way people are so touchy if they think their nationality is even slightly insulted.

    What is it that makes people like that? I don't get it. Glad I don't suffer from that though.
    ArtyC wrote: »
    Why would you click on the tread just to bash Irish. Pathetic

    See, touchy. Way OTT.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,507 ✭✭✭ArtyC


    If someone asked for a cocktail recipe would you come in a start rabbiting on about the perils of drinking.

    It's just so very boring people are still jumping on Irish and calling it useless etc because they were useless at it. If you don't want to speak it I'm not offended by that. Why are you so TOUCHY about someone else asking for a translation? Totally de railing his tread. Get lost


    You sure it's not for a tattoo op ;)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,250 ✭✭✭✭Iwasfrozen


    ArtyC wrote: »
    If someone asked for a cocktail recipe would you come in a start rabbiting on about the perils of drinking.

    It's just so very boring people are still jumping on Irish and calling it useless etc because they were useless at it. If you don't want to speak it I'm not offended by that. Why are you so TOUCHY about someone else asking for a translation? Totally de railing his tread. Get lost


    You sure it's not for a tattoo op ;)
    It's useless by definition not because anyone failed it. I don't want to drag this any more off topic just adding your post isn't consistent.

    OP if you want an answer go to the Irish forum, you won't get one in After Hours.


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