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English to Irish translation? Any good at the auld Irish?

  • 10-03-2016 02:04AM
    #1
    TheHillOfDoom
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 794 ✭✭✭


    I need to say something like the following (but it doesn't need to be word for word if an Irish equivalent exists)

    If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you then you'll be a man my son.


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  • #2
    The Backwards Man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    TheHillOfDoom wrote: »
    I need to say something like the following (but it doesn't need to be word for word if an Irish equivalent exists)

    If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you then you'll be a man my son.

    Rudyard Kipling was a right fella, but a bit of a cnut at the same time.





    You can't get more Irish than that


  • #3
    bodice ripper
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,681 ✭✭✭bodice ripper


    Please tell me it's not for a tattoo...


  • #4
    ballsymchugh
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,943 ✭✭✭ballsymchugh


    TheHillOfDoom wrote: »
    I need to say something like the following (but it doesn't need to be word for word if an Irish equivalent exists)

    If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you then you'll be a man my son.

    más féidir leat do cloigeann a coimead nuair a bhfuil cách á cailleadh agus thú a chur faoi locht, ansin déanfadh fear asat.

    nó rud éigin mar sin..


  • #5
    TheHillOfDoom
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 794 ✭✭✭TheHillOfDoom


    No it's not a tattoo.


  • #6
    Princess Consuela Bananahammock
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,779 ✭✭✭✭Princess Consuela Bananahammock


    Homer, that you?

    Everything I don't like is either woke or fascist - possibly both - pick one.



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  • #7
    endacl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,443 ✭✭✭✭endacl


    An bhfuil cead agam dul go dtí an leithreas, agus cáca milis scamaill sa spéir, mahogany gaspipes.

    Not an exact translation, but the sentiment remains intact.


  • #8
    TheHillOfDoom
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 794 ✭✭✭TheHillOfDoom


    endacl wrote: »
    An bhfuil cead agam dul go dtí an leithreas, agus cáca milis scamaill sa spéir, mahogany gaspipes.

    Not an exact translation, but the sentiment remains intact.

    It may come as a great surprise that A: I got a B in Higher Level Irish in da leavin' and B: I translate another language into English at work, so, chuir do méar i mo thóin.


  • #9
    The Backwards Man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    TheHillOfDoom wrote: »
    It may come as a great surprise that A: I got a B in Higher Level Irish in da leavin' and B: I translate another language into English at work, so, chuir do méar i mo thóin.

    Kinky!


  • #10
    TheHillOfDoom
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 794 ✭✭✭TheHillOfDoom


    The Backwards Man wrote: »
    Kinky!

    Stinky.


  • #11
    The Backwards Man
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    TheHillOfDoom wrote: »
    Stinky.

    Whatever flotai do currach


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  • #12
    TheHillOfDoom
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 794 ✭✭✭TheHillOfDoom


    Look - I translate professionally, so I know I need to leave this to an expert Irish speaker (you always translate into your native tongue). Thanks for the help.


  • #13
    endacl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,443 ✭✭✭✭endacl


    TheHillOfDoom wrote: »
    It may come as a great surprise that A: I got a B in Higher Level Irish in da leavin' and B: I translate another language into English at work, so, chuir do méar i mo thóin.

    'I do thóin', nach bhfuil?!?


  • #14
    endacl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,443 ✭✭✭✭endacl


    TheHillOfDoom wrote: »
    Look - I translate professionally, so I know I need to leave this to an expert Irish speaker (you always translate into your native tongue). Thanks for the help.

    Jaysus. No need to be snippy. You obviously don't use basic search functions professionally, or you might have found this forum...

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=31

    ... which you're welcome to chuir in aon áit you like...


  • #15
    The Backwards Man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    TheHillOfDoom wrote: »
    Look - I translate professionally, so I know I need to leave this to an expert Irish speaker (you always translate into your native tongue). Thanks for the help.

    Houl your wheesht a wee minute there bucko, this isn't a professional forum, we're all here for the craic and to help a fellow traveller out if we can. I'd love to be wandering about a big fancy nightclub right now chasing youngwans right now, but instead I'm here helping you translate stupid English phrases whilst I'm trying to figure out how to salvage the pallets I saw in the moss today for kindling for my fire without bogging my quad.

    So cut us a wee bit of slack, right?


  • #16
    TheHillOfDoom
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 794 ✭✭✭TheHillOfDoom


    endacl wrote: »
    'I do thóin', nach bhfuil?!?

    Depends on your preference.


  • #17
    colossus-x
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,202 ✭✭✭colossus-x


    Why would one want to translate a very well know beautiful verse from English into a very well less regarded language such as Irish?


  • #18
    endacl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,443 ✭✭✭✭endacl


    colossus-x wrote: »
    Why would one(?) want to translate a very well known and beautiful verse from English into a very well less regarded language such as Irish?
    Oh the irony...

    :pac:


  • #19
    Princess Consuela Bananahammock
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,779 ✭✭✭✭Princess Consuela Bananahammock


    TheHillOfDoom wrote: »
    Look - I translate professionally, so I know I need to leave this to an expert Irish speaker (you always translate into your native tongue). Thanks for the help.

    Expert and native tongue are two different things.

    Everything I don't like is either woke or fascist - possibly both - pick one.



  • #20
    ArtyC
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,513 ✭✭✭ArtyC


    colossus-x wrote: »
    Why would want to translate a very well know beautiful vers from English into a very well less regarded language such as Irish?

    Why would you click on the tread just to bash Irish. Pathetic


  • #21
    Lithium93_
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 48,990 ✭✭✭✭Lithium93_


    TheHillOfDoom wrote: »
    I need to say something like the following (but it doesn't need to be word for word if an Irish equivalent exists)

    If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you then you'll be a man my son.

    Má choinníonn tú do chloigeann agus é uilig ag dul dtí diabhal, agus an milleán a chur ort, beidh tú I d'fhearr..

    That's what I'd say for the bolded part, hopefully it's some help to ya.


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  • #22
    Lithium93_
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 48,990 ✭✭✭✭Lithium93_


    ArtyC wrote: »
    Why would you click on the tread just to bash Irish. Pathetic

    Ignore him, and he'll go away...


  • #23
    The Backwards Man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    Tá dhá tairbh suas ar an chnoc ag stánadh síos ar a dtréad . Deir an tarbh óg don tarbh sean " Hey a ligean ar siúl síos ann tapaidh fíor agus a **** ar cheann de na ba ! "
    Deir an tarbh sean " Nah , ligeann siúl síos ....... agus ag **** em go léir "


    **** is Irish for shag


  • #24
    endacl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,443 ✭✭✭✭endacl


    The Backwards Man wrote: »

    **** is Irish for shag
    The species of cormorant?


  • #25
    colossus-x
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,202 ✭✭✭colossus-x


    ArtyC wrote: »
    Why would you click on the tread just to bash Irish. Pathetic

    Just to annoy people who think Irish is a rich language and think English is rubbish.


  • #26
    endacl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,443 ✭✭✭✭endacl


    colossus-x wrote: »
    Just to annoy people who think Irish is a rich language and think English is rubbish.

    That'd be a tiny intersection on anyone's Venn diagram....


  • #27
    colossus-x
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,202 ✭✭✭colossus-x


    endacl wrote: »
    Oh the irony...

    :pac:

    ?

    Obviously you prefer to converse in the common tongue.


  • #28
    The Backwards Man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    endacl wrote: »
    The species of cormorant?

    I wasn't taught dirty words so I don't know. I was mostly taught by the best teachers of Irish in Donegal, probably in Ireland considering how well their students do in competitions . . . Protestants!:P


  • #29
    TheHillOfDoom
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 794 ✭✭✭TheHillOfDoom


    Spot who failed Irish.


  • #30
    endacl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,443 ✭✭✭✭endacl


    colossus-x wrote: »
    ?

    Obviously you prefer to converse in the common tongue.

    That would depend entirely on with whom I were conversing.


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  • #31
    The Backwards Man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    TheHillOfDoom wrote: »
    Spot who failed Irish.

    You can't expect a dog to be bilingual.


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