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  • #32
    dubhthach
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,284 ✭✭✭dubhthach


    notabogsnotion wrote: »
    Language can be very representative of a culture e.g. Dia is Mhuire duit to say hello. Clearly religious.

    Goodbye == 'God be with you', clearly religious ;)


  • #33
    maestroamado
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,426 ✭✭✭maestroamado


    dubhthach wrote: »
    Goodbye == 'God be with you', clearly religious ;)


    Interesting i did not know that...


  • #34
    Tiredandcranky
    Registered Users Posts: 43 ✭Tiredandcranky


    Slightly off topic, but what about distinctly Irish words that are (more by older generation) put into English sentences.
    Off the top of my head (I am completely guessing at spelling here)

    He was very flaithuil with the money (..flamboyant reckless spending )

    A seascar little man (neat, tidy, careful)

    They were ullagoning (crying... annoying wailing sort of crying)

    A grabhar sort of man (generous, well fed, happy, content)

    I’ll cut a gowlog off the ditch (a forked piece of a branch)

    Anyone got some others? I think they’re fascinating.


  • #35
    dubhthach
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,284 ✭✭✭dubhthach


    Tiredandcranky wrote: »
    Slightly off topic, but what about distinctly Irish words that are (more by older generation) put into English sentences.
    Off the top of my head (I am completely guessing at spelling here)

    He was very flaithuil with the money (..flamboyant reckless spending )

    A seascar little man (neat, tidy, careful)

    They were ullagoning (crying... annoying wailing sort of crying)

    A grabhar sort of man (generous, well fed, happy, content)

    I’ll cut a gowlog off the ditch (a forked piece of a branch)

    Anyone got some others? I think they’re fascinating.

    "go way with your Plámas"
    or
    "you're some plámáser..."


  • #36
    pinkypinky
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 6,671 Mod ✭✭✭✭pinkypinky


    Ciotóg for left-handers

    Genealogy Forum Mod



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  • #37
    Jellybaby_1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 971 ✭✭✭Jellybaby_1


    pinkypinky wrote: »
    Ciotóg for left-handers


    Always thought that was for people who use both right and left hands??


  • #38
    pinkypinky
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 6,671 Mod ✭✭✭✭pinkypinky


    I've never heard of it in that context.

    https://www.teanglann.ie/en/eid/ciot%C3%B3g

    Genealogy Forum Mod



  • #39
    El Tarangu
    Registered Users Posts: 1,620 ✭✭✭El Tarangu


    'Mar dhea' - as it were.

    Joe Duffy is mad for dropping that one into conversation, mar dhea.


  • #40
    Jellybaby_1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 971 ✭✭✭Jellybaby_1


    pinkypinky wrote: »
    I've never heard of it in that context.

    https://www.teanglann.ie/en/eid/ciot%C3%B3g


    You know, I had it wrong, how I mixed it up with ambidextrous I'll never know!! :o Yet another of my silver moments!


  • #41
    Tiredandcranky
    Registered Users Posts: 43 ✭Tiredandcranky


    El Tarangu wrote: »
    'Mar dhea' - as it were.

    Joe Duffy is mad for dropping that one into conversation, mar dhea.

    I think I know the one you’re talking about but for me it has a different meaning. It’s kind of ‘as if’. The one I’m thinking of is pronounced murra- ya.

    The money was only resting in his account, Mar dhea.
    He was going to pay for it, he just forgot, Mar dhea.


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  • #42
    Jellybaby_1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 971 ✭✭✭Jellybaby_1


    Tiredandcranky wrote: »
    I think I know the one you’re talking about but for me it has a different meaning. It’s kind of ‘as if’. The one I’m thinking of is pronounced murra- ya.

    The money was only resting in his account, Mar dhea.
    He was going to pay for it, he just forgot, Mar dhea.

    My mother and aunts would say it like 'my-ah', which to them meant 'he will pay for it my ah (wink-wink) or (my eye). Such a memory.

    Some people look at me strangely now when I say 'it's great gas'.


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