Do you know what I mean?

pat_cork · 17-03-2014 08:55PM #1

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 · 17-03-2014 08:56PM

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

aujopimur · 17-03-2014 09:00PM

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

My name is URL · 17-03-2014 09:00PM

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

Freddie Dodge · 17-03-2014 09:08PM

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 · 17-03-2014 09:11PM

This reminded me of this

17-03-2014 09:11PM

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

Ficheall · 17-03-2014 09:13PM

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 · 17-03-2014 09:17PM

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 · 17-03-2014 09:19PM

I blame Eastenders.

Know mean.

snubbleste · 17-03-2014 09:19PM

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 · 17-03-2014 09:21PM

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

Femme_Fatale · 17-03-2014 09:24PM

"...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.

17-03-2014 09:27PM

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

orangesoda · 17-03-2014 09:28PM

Now i have liam gallagher whining in my mind

Nodster · 17-03-2014 09:30PM

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

djflawless · 17-03-2014 09:31PM

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 · 17-03-2014 09:34PM

Ju know what I mean.

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

MJ23 · 17-03-2014 09:47PM

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

Frank Lee Midere · 17-03-2014 09:52PM

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

.Henry Sellers. · 17-03-2014 09:59PM

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

Sauve · 17-03-2014 10:13PM

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 · 17-03-2014 10:14PM

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 · 17-03-2014 10:17PM

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 · 18-03-2014 03:10PM

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 · 18-03-2014 03:19PM

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

stoneill · 18-03-2014 03:23PM

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 · 18-03-2014 04:52PM

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 · 18-03-2014 04:53PM

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 · 18-03-2014 05:45PM

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 · 18-03-2014 07:32PM

Yes I do know what you mean.

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

Do you know what I mean?

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