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Irishisms

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  • #152
    Forgotten password 99
    Closed Accounts Posts: 59 ✭✭Forgotten password 99


    Oh! God you wouldn't be long getting frostbit!


  • #153
    W123-80's
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,096 ✭✭✭W123-80's


    • Yokemabob
    • Thingymajig
    • Whatjamacallit
    • Ara
    • bollox


  • #154
    JustTheOne
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,681 ✭✭✭JustTheOne


    Shove it up your bolox.

    Or Swiss.


  • #155
    passremarkable
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,532 ✭✭✭passremarkable


    Malogen


    That wans as cross as a badger


    He/she is a sack


  • #156
    passremarkable
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,532 ✭✭✭passremarkable


    Auld lads around my parts say a-vic to young people

    Will ya make me a cuppa tea there a-vic


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  • #157
    El_Duderino 09
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,211 ✭✭✭✭El_Duderino 09


    Omackeral wrote: »
    Man 1: Howiya? (How are ya?)

    Man 2: Howiya.

    How can it be the question and the answer?!

    Strictly speaking in posh English the correct way to introduce yourself is

    'how do you do?'
    And the correct response is
    'How do you do?'

    Wierd but that's the language


  • #158
    JustTheOne
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,681 ✭✭✭JustTheOne


    He died of a Monday/Tuesday and so on.


  • #159
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 2,745 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    "That's a lazy wind"

    Describing a wind that goes through you rather than around you.

    Recently I had some lads doing some ground work. In the course of their work they went through one of the pipes for the septic tank. I just happened to be there at the time. The response came in one long multiple sentence rolled into one:
    "Shure it'll be grand there till after we've had the tae.. Just make shure no one flushes the jax for a while..shtick on that oul kettle there and we'll have the nosebag."

    The lads had their lunch and they were right...it was grand.


  • #160
    osarusan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,928 ✭✭✭✭osarusan


    I will yeah.


  • #161
    AdamB
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 168 ✭✭AdamB


    Genie Mack!


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  • #162
    Un Croissant
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,052 ✭✭✭Un Croissant


    Every time I pass the French students in college and say 'well how are ya?' they go to stop and have a chat. Then there's the awkward 'oh we aren't stopping' situation.


  • #163
    Mountainsandh
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,705 ✭✭✭Mountainsandh


    Yeah, it's so confusing at first, and then when you're French you really want to genuinely answer the question, not just say "grand, you?".

    Also "you're looking good" begs for a full blown answer and conversation to a French person, I know the deal now, but it does make for some embarrassing situations.

    Another irishism, that I think is typically Waterfordian is to use "with" for duration (with these 2 weeks).


  • #164
    indioblack
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,956 ✭✭✭indioblack


    **Timbuk2** wrote: »
    "bye bye bye-bye-bye bye bye..."



    Can't stand it.


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