Irish people using the word "Mate"

Lux23 · 04-09-2010 10:50PM

What should an Irish person call their friends then? Whats an acceptable term?

epgc3fyqirnbsx · 04-09-2010 10:51PM

Lux23 wrote: »

What should an Irish person call their friends then? Whats an acceptable term?

Doesn't really matter, someone here would have a problem with it...

jugger0 · 04-09-2010 11:01PM

Bloke is wayyyy worse, fuppin hate that word.

antidark777 · 04-09-2010 11:11PM

Augmerson wrote: »

I've been calling friends mate for years and I don't see any problem with it. People need to get over this idea that we can't use a word because the English or the Australians use it, ffs grow out of that mentality. And so what if they do use the words too?

When the **** are people in this country going to cop the **** on and just let people on and mind their own ****ing business?

This is typical Ireland.

Got it spot on. After all, aren't we using the english language?

garancafan · 04-09-2010 11:27PM

"Don't forget the turnips for me and my mate" - James Joyce (A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man) 1916.

Scorpion Sting · 04-09-2010 11:38PM

I quite like using the term at home but rarely use it in everyday life.

Simply.Young · 04-09-2010 11:44PM

stanley1980 wrote: »

Ps. It also really annoys me when people insert asterixs so they can swear! what's the point?!

Maybe because the forum does it automatically.

****. ****. Bull****. ****. ******. ****. See?

Augmerson · 05-09-2010 12:16AM

stanley1980 wrote: »

Ps. It also really annoys me when people insert asterixs so they can swear! what's the point?!

Surely you are trolling.

stooodent · 05-09-2010 12:17AM

jesusinaglanza wrote: »

What is the story with this.... "mate" has only creeped into Irish society in the past few years, I die a little inside when i hear this word being used.

"mate" is for people from the UK or OZ...suddenly us Irish clowns are using it on a daily basis. it is embarrasing

"thanks mate" or "cheers mate" does not lie well with the Irish accent...

I agree with this statement so much it hurts :pac:

kfallon · 05-09-2010 12:19AM

Lux23 wrote: »

What should an Irish person call their friends then? Whats an acceptable term?

****ace, ****bag or trout

holystungun9 · 05-09-2010 12:31AM

due to living in different countries it is easy to pick up expressions and sayings. So for that reason I ain't apologizing anytime soon for any time I may 'mate'.

Karmaman · 05-09-2010 01:06AM

Can be a bit confrontational when someone that isn't a friend decides to call you "Mate", you don't call yor mates "Mate".
Better off with Buddy....A la Keith Duffy, Howarye Buddies

stovelid · 05-09-2010 01:42AM

I use it all the time. It's just a harmless social nicety.

You should bring it with people that say it to you instead of whinging on boards about it.

Paddy_B · 05-09-2010 03:00AM

how are ya me auld flower

Owwmykneecap · 05-09-2010 03:07AM

I met some people from boards today, we meet regularly. I informed them I had been posting in after hours for the last few weeks. They said I'd missed the boat by several years.

OP, I can see their point.

Coriolanus · 05-09-2010 12:40PM

garancafan wrote: »

"Don't forget the turnips for me and my mate" - James Joyce (A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man) 1916.

If it's good enough for Joyce, it's good enough for me.

Wagon · 05-09-2010 01:32PM

So now we aren't allowed to say "mate"? What the hell is wrong with people? After Hours used to have funny threads that made you laugh, or kept you informed and you logged off feeling better normally. Now you access the site and it's like getting a kick in the balls. "Irish people do this..., "irish people are sooo embarrasing..., "dont you hate it when the irish..."

why not try and post a fun thread? like the one where someone found that ****e bedsit with a little bedroom built into it! More of that

kylith · 05-09-2010 01:38PM

I see no problem with it. Words are often traded between countries and even languages.

Forest Master · 05-09-2010 02:19PM

So, the fact that we've established that James Joyce said it almost 100 years ago - does that not make the original post a moot point now?

The OP wrote:

"mate" has only creeped into Irish society in the past few years

PROVEN TO BE FACTUALLY WRONG (as well as the word being "crept").
We have irrefutable hard evidence that proves prior usage that pre-dates your claim of "the past few years". FACT. PWNED. OP FAIL. YOWSER!

stanley1980 · 05-09-2010 06:49PM

I very much doubt that many of these 'cockney-wannabes' who ape other cultures have read Joyce any time lateley!

Augmerson · 05-09-2010 06:58PM

jesusinaglanza wrote: »

"thanks mate" or "cheers mate" does not lie well with the Irish accent...

This is small dog complex at it's best. The only problem OP has with the word mate and Irish people saying it is that OP thinks it comes from England and Australia, much bigger Anglophile countries. It's the 21st century and it's time to drop this kind of attitude.

take everything · 05-09-2010 06:59PM

Wagon wrote: »

So now we aren't allowed to say "mate"? What the hell is wrong with people? After Hours used to have funny threads that made you laugh, or kept you informed and you logged off feeling better normally. Now you access the site and it's like getting a kick in the balls. "Irish people do this..., "irish people are sooo embarrasing..., "dont you hate it when the irish..."

why not try and post a fun thread? like the one where someone found that ****e bedsit with a little bedroom built into it! More of that

Ironically that thread is funny because its about Irish gombeenism.

ejmaztec · 05-09-2010 07:59PM

Are we still allowed to call people "sugar-drawers"?

Wagon · 05-09-2010 08:12PM

take everything wrote: »

Ironically that thread is funny because its about Irish gombeenism.

Yeah but he deserved it.

HavingCrack · 05-09-2010 08:45PM

We need a new forum for all those moany threads to be dumped :pac:

rubadub · 05-09-2010 09:13PM

jesusinaglanza wrote: »

"mate" has only creeped into Irish society in the past few years,

Past few years!?! where the fuck have you been!

fryup wrote: »

<---it works both ways-->

you have english people using "paddy terms" like craic, bejayus, eejit etc

Actually craic is english in origin, several other "paddy terms" are english in origin too, there was an article on it in some paper a few weeks ago.

Revolution9 · 05-09-2010 09:18PM

If you hate English words so much go speak Irish!

Coriolanus · 05-09-2010 09:19PM

rubadub wrote: »

Past few years!?! where the fuck have you been!

Actually craic is english in origin, several other "paddy terms" are english in origin too, there was an article on it in some paper a few weeks ago.

I LOVE IT! God help the next shinner to use the word in front of me now, I'll lambaste his race-traitor self for having a secret-black-and-tan heart. Lolol.

Star Bingo · 05-09-2010 09:32PM

i don't say "mai-" as it'd sound ere as mate to me means sexual partner. also the reason for this thread's very existence.. i've become weary of its (over)use n also wonder why them what use it have not.

will say mn, bro, geez, fella, chick, chico .. just about anything that takes my fancy. anything i don't repeat too often - anything but.

Tubsandtiles · 11-09-2010 12:19AM

I can see an English tourist walking into a butcher in Ireland and saying "Alright mate", with the butcher replying that "mates fresh" and the confusion begins

Irish people using the word "Mate"

Comments