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"I seen" and "I done" have gone too far!

  • 01-08-2018 12:30PM
    #1
    Resverathrole
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 216 ✭✭Resverathrole


    The latter one seems particularly unique to Dublin. These sayings are really catching on. But I think the following article shows that it's gone too far.

    See for yourself. The dumb journalist, who's probably from Dublin, wrote 'seen' instead of 'saw' in the subtitle to the article below!

    https://www.sportsjoe.ie/mma/khabib-mcgregor-abdelaziz-helwani-ufc-mma-169743

    "It's been one year, eight months and eleven days since we last seen Conor McGregor inside the Octagon"

    What the actual fcuk!?


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  • #2
    verycool
    Closed Accounts Posts: 965 ✭✭✭verycool


    Ah Engerlish do be our second languich it do be.

    Also, I doubt those reading an article on McGregor would pick up the error.


  • #3
    seamus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 68,173 ✭✭✭✭seamus


    I wish I had so little to be worrying about.


  • #4
    Jim Bob Scratcher
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,231 ✭✭✭Jim Bob Scratcher


    Joe.ie, sure what do you expect?


  • #5
    evolving_doors
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,810 ✭✭✭✭evolving_doors


    Jim Bob Scratcher wrote: »
    Joe.ie, sure what do you expect?

    Could you be more Pacific?


  • #6
    Resverathrole
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 216 ✭✭Resverathrole


    verycool wrote: »
    Also, I doubt those reading an article on McGregor would pick up the error.
    Do you you think he'll ever even fight again?


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  • #7
    verycool
    Closed Accounts Posts: 965 ✭✭✭verycool


    evolving_doors wrote: »
    Could you be more Pacific?


    I sea what you did there!
    Resverathrole wrote: »
    Do you you think he'll ever even fight again?

    Couldn't give a flying f*ck to be honest.


  • #8
    Mackmatic
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 52 ✭✭Mackmatic


    Man alive, you need some real problems in your life pal. I done had enough of you bleedin whingers lately. I seen another thread like this recently and it was just more of the same. Whinging on top of whinging.

    Saps.


  • #9
    Electric Sheep
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,114 ✭✭✭Electric Sheep


    It's not unique to Dublin. It's ubiquitous in Ireland even among "educated" people. I see it daily on boards.ie. I suspect most don't even know that it's incorrect.


  • #10
    demanufactured
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,756 ✭✭✭demanufactured


    Been vs Being

    Drives me mad when I see those 2 mixed up, especially in work emails.


  • #11
    RWCNT
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,430 ✭✭✭RWCNT


    Resverathrole wrote: »
    The latter one seems particularly unique to Dublin. These sayings are really catching on. But I think the following article shows that it's gone too far.

    See for yourself. The dumb journalist, who's probably from Dublin, wrote 'seen' instead of 'saw' in the subtitle to the article below!

    https://www.sportsjoe.ie/mma/khabib-mcgregor-abdelaziz-helwani-ufc-mma-169743

    "It's been one year, eight months and eleven days since we last seen Conor McGregor inside the Octagon"

    What the actual fcuk!?

    I quite like "I seen", having lived in the UK for nearly 10 years and finding my fondness for the Irish vernacular increasing exponentially.

    Don't think I'm familiar with "I done" though, how would that be used in a sentence? "I done the dishes" sort of thing?


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  • #12
    Ursus Horribilis
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,168 ✭✭✭Ursus Horribilis


    I seen and I done aren't Dublin things. I've heard people saying those down the country for years.


  • #13
    verycool
    Closed Accounts Posts: 965 ✭✭✭verycool


    Electric Sheep wrote: »
    It's not unique to Dublin. It's ubiquitous in Ireland even among "educated" people. I see it daily on boards.ie. I suspect most don't even know that it's incorrect.


    I think what OP is getting at here is that online publications are showing a decline in standards (don't get me started on joe.ie).



    You don't type how you speak, as it were. So, what's slipping in are a lot of colloquialisations which others will pick up. Almost like a printed Chinese whispers.


  • #14
    Mars Bar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 32,699 ✭✭✭✭Mars Bar


    I used to always get it wrong and my teachers would correct me but never explained why. Then my best friend explained it to me like a teacher should have done.


  • #15
    Sal Butamol
    Closed Accounts Posts: 523 ✭✭✭Sal Butamol


    It's fcuking rampant.

    I seen this, I seen that.

    It makes you sound like a cabbage


  • #16
    mikeymouse
    Closed Accounts Posts: 567 ✭✭✭mikeymouse


    It's been one year, eight months and eleven days since we last seen Conor McGregor inside the Octagon"
    Schoolboy error!
    couldn't count the days on his colander


  • #17
    anewme
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,206 ✭✭✭✭anewme


    Should of instead of should have drives me mad!


  • #18
    JCDUB
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,225 ✭✭✭JCDUB


    Resverathrole wrote: »
    What the actual fcuk!?

    You should of emailed the journo.😋


  • #19
    Dana Wide Lineman
    Posts: 81,308 CMod ✭✭✭✭ Dana Wide Lineman


    anewme wrote: »
    Should of instead of should have drives me mad!

    That and "yay or nay".
    Reddit is full of "i am laying on the couch" or "my dog likes to lay down" which really gets to me...


  • #20
    Joe prim
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 919 ✭✭✭Joe prim


    mikeymouse wrote: »
    It's been one year, eight months and eleven days since we last seen Conor McGregor inside the Octagon"
    Schoolboy error!
    couldn't count the days on his colander

    Maybe he didn't go to riting collage?


  • #21
    Kitty6277
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,204 ✭✭✭Kitty6277


    Ursus Horribilis wrote: »
    I seen and I done aren't Dublin things. I've heard people saying those down the country for years.

    I agree, very common here in Tipperary :rolleyes:


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  • #22
    ElChe32
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,690 ✭✭✭ElChe32


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  • #23
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Languages change lads, get over it. It's particularly amusing when people give out about english which is already so incredibly bastardised and all over the place in grammar and pronunciation, and spoken in dozens of different dialects around the world, but yet some people get so worked over any deviation from a seemingly arbitrary standard set not all that long ago


  • #24
    whisky_galore
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,266 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    It's the copy/paste school of journalism and it's creeping into the print media now.

    People have an amazing thing, the internet, at their disposal and they still can't get it right.
    Grammatical and spelling errors all over the place.

    I wouldn't mind errors in posts on an online forum, but for news stories and event publicity there should be a lot more checks going on. It's just plain sloppy.


  • #25
    MistyCheese
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,006 ✭✭✭MistyCheese


    It were you, you done it, I seen ya!

    I should of known...

    My grammas got die of beetus :(


    'Try and' is another bloody one I see and hear everywhere.

    I'm generally appalled by the horrific state into which language has decended. Not comments on forums, fair game, but horrendous typos from apparently reputable sources. I have often despaired at content from people are are professional writers.


  • #26
    Sal Butamol
    Closed Accounts Posts: 523 ✭✭✭Sal Butamol


    Half the trainee teachers are illiterate as it is.


  • #27
    jim salter
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 680 ✭✭✭jim salter


    verycool wrote: »
    I seen what you done their!

    FYP :p


  • #28
    verycool
    Closed Accounts Posts: 965 ✭✭✭verycool


    jim salter wrote: »
    FYP :p


    NOOOOOO!


    *hyperventilates in to a Dubray Books bag*


  • #29
    Resverathrole
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 216 ✭✭Resverathrole


    riffmongous wrote: »
    Languages change lads, get over it. It's particularly amusing when people give out about english which is already so incredibly bastardised and all over the place in grammar and pronunciation, and spoken in dozens of different dialects around the world, but yet some people get so worked over any deviation from a seemingly arbitrary standard set not all that long ago
    No. It's wrong. Plain and simple.


  • #30
    Cantona's Collars
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,709 ✭✭✭✭Cantona's Collars


    verycool wrote: »
    NOOOOOO!


    *hyperventilates in to a Dubray Books bag*

    Ah there, they're,their.

    You'll be grand. :)


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  • #31
    Resverathrole
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 216 ✭✭Resverathrole


    anewme wrote: »
    Should of instead of should have drives me mad!
    At least you don't notice that verbally.


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