Using Irish day to day

mikemac · 21-05-2009 09:39PM #1

Yes I know we have a specfic forum but it's a general question. And I've started plently of threads here but this isn't one I've seen started

Do you use Irish during the day?
For my own example, we get hundreds of emails a day in work. My teamates ask when is my lunch slot and I'd reply "12:30 for mise".
Or someone who email me and tells me I've to redo some work and I'd reply "Cén fáth?".

I'm far, far from a fluent speaker. And it's not a case that I'm trying to show off what very limited knowledge I have. It's just what I do and I'm not alone in this. Just seems normal, that's all

So boardsies, do you use Irish day to day?
What I was in Galway, I'd be served my pint and be told Sinn e.

phasers · 21-05-2009 09:41PM

That makes me think of **** who use French words in an English conversation. Dropping Irish words into an English conversation is stupid imo

wudangclan · 21-05-2009 09:44PM

do mathair

21-05-2009 09:44PM

It's like people in work who I hear saying "Slan" when they're done on the phone. No harm done if they're easily recognisable words (to the vast majority) IMO, depends how you deliver them and in what context though.

I certainly wouldn't consider saying "mise" or "cen fath?" to be "using Irish day to day" in any real sense.

Four-Percent · 21-05-2009 09:45PM

pourquoi?

phasers · 21-05-2009 09:45PM

Four-Percent wrote: »

pourquoi?

que?

Diabhal Beag · 21-05-2009 09:46PM

I always do it mar is maith liom bheith ag caint le mo chairde in English freisin.

Learn the language or you can't really consider yourself 100% Irish

AckwelFoley · 21-05-2009 09:46PM

using that "Jibba jabba mombo jumbo hippy shyte" in Athlone will get you kicked in the head.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock · 21-05-2009 09:47PM

Whatzzup mah niggah?

mikemac · 21-05-2009 09:48PM

Random wrote: »

I certainly wouldn't consider saying "mise" or "cen fath?" to be "using Irish day to day" in any real sense.

Agreed, it's not far from the limit of my knowledge.
As I posted, it just seems normal to me, I ain't someone from a David McWilliams book who use Irish to show off, my knowledge wouldn't be good enough for that.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock · 21-05-2009 09:49PM

mikemac wrote: »

Agreed, it's not far from the limit of my knowledge.
As I posted, it just seems normal to me, I amn't someone from a David McWilliams book who uses Irish to show off, my knowledge wouldn't be good enough for that.

FYEnglish:pac:

Saibh · 21-05-2009 09:50PM

Ikky Poo2 wrote: »

Whatzzup mah niggah?

Ikky Poo2 wrote: »

FYEnglish

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staker · 21-05-2009 09:50PM

Irish has never served any purpose in my life except to antagonise me through that fat b**** from kerry and "ANOIS",the wannabe tabloid.
Don't mind others using it though.

O'Coonassa · 21-05-2009 09:51PM

Little Shyte wrote: »

Learn the language or you can't really consider yourself 100% Irish

:rolleyes:
Ivernic?

RHunce · 21-05-2009 09:51PM

yeah i replace a few words for irish words and sometimes german too!

Chelle1 · 21-05-2009 09:52PM

I would have to say I don't use Irish much on a daily basis. however I would try to use the few words that I remember during Seachtain Na Gaeilge. Although I think I may start trying to use it more often, as I just enrolled my son in the local Gael Scoil.

I do think Irish is becoming a lot more trendy today than when I was trying to learn it back in school and I certainly don't see the harm in throwing in a couple of obvious words here and there.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock · 21-05-2009 09:52PM

Saibh wrote: »

.

You have either failed to notice the colloquialism of my first post or actually make a post yourself....

AckwelFoley · 21-05-2009 09:53PM

Ikky Poo2 wrote: »

Whatzzup mah niggah?

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_H_G1wm10Q9o/RuKCaYNcZpI/AAAAAAAAA6o/bMKxruIU0NQ/s320/PicardWTF.jpg

phasers · 21-05-2009 09:54PM

snyper wrote: »

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_H_G1wm10Q9o/RuKCaYNcZpI/AAAAAAAAA6o/bMKxruIU0NQ/s320/PicardWTF.jpg

racist

My name is URL · 21-05-2009 09:56PM

Admitting that it's a dead language is admitting that evolution exists

SEPT 23 1989 · 21-05-2009 09:58PM

no thank god

Uncle Arthur · 21-05-2009 10:00PM

snyper wrote: »

using that "Jibba jabba mombo jumbo hippy shyte" in Athlone will get you kicked in the head.

i thought people in athlone perfectly understood jibba jabba mombo jumbo and used it on an everyday basis ::pac:

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

tony1kenobi · 21-05-2009 10:05PM

mikemac wrote: »

Using Irish day to day

I didn't even know today was Irish day. Could I have got off work?

Joey the lips · 21-05-2009 10:11PM

An bhfuil cead agam dul go dtí an leithreas ?

themadchef · 21-05-2009 10:13PM

I speak Irish (quite badly, admittedly

) almost every day. Feck the lot of yee

phasers · 21-05-2009 10:14PM

Joey the lips wrote: »

An bhfuil cead agam dul go dtí an leithreas ?

I don't know, can you?

Joey the lips · 21-05-2009 10:14PM

Thank god the best thing ever to happen to Irish was it became a reconised european language. I know the daft fcukers on this thread that would like to see it's demise would not understand the consequences of this but it means if your future brainy son or daughter wants to get a job in europe having Irish and english they will only need one more language!

Equal rights for all!

AckwelFoley · 21-05-2009 10:15PM

Uncle Arthur wrote: »

i thought people in athlone perfectly understood jibba jabba mombo jumbo and used it on an everyday basis ::pac:

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

dude.. thats old

http://www.neowin.net/forum/fun/timeline.jpg

Witcher · 21-05-2009 10:18PM

Little Shyte wrote: »

Learn the language or you can't really consider yourself 100% Irish

Pardon my Irish but..Fcuk off:pac:

Jet Black · 21-05-2009 10:44PM

I was in a bar in town and there was this hot american girl with an Irish phrase book, she was sitting close to me and I said are you trying to learn Irish, she was only over for two weeks but was trying to learn Irish anyway. I helped her with the pronunciation. I did not bother to tell her that no one in Dublin really ever speaks in Irish. But still impressed she wanted to learn it.

Naos · 21-05-2009 11:01PM

Yup, am pretty bad but would use it as often as I can. I do think it's important and should be used more often around the country.

Tír gan teanga, tír gan anam.

Using Irish day to day

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