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Why do we have such stupid names

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    #62
    For Forks Sake
    Registered Users Posts: 11,472 ✭✭✭✭For Forks Sake


    Pretzeluck wrote: »
    I want to have a link for that documentary

    https://beta.rte.ie/player/movie/rtnvestigates--steroid-ireland/86603304169


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    #63
    Timberrrrrrrr
    Registered Users Posts: 25,406 ✭✭✭✭Timberrrrrrrr


    Pretzeluck wrote: »
    I'm not sure whay you're trying to mean here. Brazil speaks Portuguese because they were conquered by Portugal and they accept that. Most South America countries speak Spanish and they accept that they have been conquered unlike Irish who were also conquered and now speak English as a result of conquest but still want to maintain their tiny bit of pride by using Irish terms. But it's failing

    Please revoke your British citizenship, we have enough gobsh/tes of our own without having to import even thicker ones like yourself.

    1/100 for effort by the way


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    #64
    Pretzeluck
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 325 ✭✭Pretzeluck


    For Forks Sake wrote: »
    https://beta.rte.ie/player/movie/rtnvestigates--steroid-ireland/86603304169

    Thanks


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    #65
    demanufactured
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,756 ✭✭✭demanufactured


    Irish is a dead language.
    We should really drop it completely at this point.


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    #66
    [Deleted User]
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    demanufactured wrote: »
    Irish is a dead language.

    Oh, edgy and original. A big bualadh bos for you.


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    #67
    demanufactured
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,756 ✭✭✭demanufactured


    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    Oh, edgy and original. A big bualadh bos for you.

    Why thank you.


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    #68
    Franz Von Peppercorn
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,070 ✭✭✭Franz Von Peppercorn


    Pretzeluck wrote: »
    Google French police and what does it say on the back. Oh police, instant fail and it is where I have stopped reading oh what about Netherlands?
    Oh yes politia, wow!
    Poland policja really?
    Romania politia really?

    Basically, you just made this list up and if you do the most simple Google search, you will find that their main police force is just a variation of police in their own language. Police is an international term, Garda is not.

    You can actually also call the Irish police the police. The name of the Irish police force is the Gardai, the name of the Italian police is the carbonari.

    Etc etc etc


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    #69
    Roger Hassenforder
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,555 ✭✭✭Roger Hassenforder


    Franz Von Peppercorn wrote: »
    You can actually also call the Irish police the police. The name of the Irish police force is the Gardai, the name of the Italian police is the carbonari.

    Etc etc etc

    I think thats a pasta dude
    Carabinieri?


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    #70
    munster87
    Registered Users Posts: 4,230 ✭✭✭munster87


    Pretzeluck wrote: »
    Ireland = Garda
    99% of the rest of the world = Police/Polizei/Polis etc

    Ireland = taoiseach
    Rest of the world = prime minister

    Oh look at us we are so cultured, we have Irish names for our positions even though barely anyone speaks Irish in Ireland. What a joke this is. Everyone should be speaking Irish just like people speak French in France and German in Germany, you don't go to France and expect everyone to speak English. If you care so much about Irish language then why everything is not changed to Irish only. For start: government texts, constitution, laws, etc.

    Typical Irish opinion


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    #71
    Franz Von Peppercorn
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,070 ✭✭✭Franz Von Peppercorn


    demanufactured wrote: »
    Irish is a dead language.
    We should really drop it completely at this point.

    I hear that a lot on the internet but never in real life or from politicians, wannabe politicans or anybody really.

    To start the movement you need to leave the basement.


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    #72
    Franz Von Peppercorn
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,070 ✭✭✭Franz Von Peppercorn


    Roger Hassenforder wrote: »
    I think thats a pasta dude
    Carabinieri?

    Sssh. Get off that pedal stool.


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    #73
    For Forks Sake
    Registered Users Posts: 11,472 ✭✭✭✭For Forks Sake


    Franz Von Peppercorn wrote: »
    Sssh. Get off that pedal stool.

    U is wiv de angles now grammar


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    #74
    Gimme A Pound
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,482 ✭✭✭Gimme A Pound


    If Irish was dead, zero people would speak it. I get people not enjoying the school curriculum (and I think it's ludicrous that it's mandatory for leaving cert - along with all the other subjects that are mandatory; I think leaving cert subjects should be entirely elective) and I know some fluent Irish speakers can be so precious and demanding. But I fully support it being spoken by those who wish to, and things like sign posts for place names. I like knowing where they have come from. Some things are translated into Irish on signs etc though, which really don't need to be.


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    #75
    Captain Havoc
    Moderators, Sports Moderators, Regional South East Moderators Posts: 11,391 Mod ✭✭✭✭Captain Havoc


    I'm a polyglot and I just came here to say, what are you on about OP? Languages are part and parcel of our lives. How hard is to remember that Garda means police or an Taoiseach is the prime minister?

    https://ormondelanguagetours.com

    Walking Tours of Kilkenny in English, French or German.



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    #76
    stoneill
    Registered Users Posts: 3,610 ✭✭✭stoneill


    Don't forget Britain has loads of official names

    Rozzers
    Filth
    Pigs
    Fuzz
    Copper
    Plod


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    #77
    evil_seed
    Registered Users Posts: 3,444 ✭✭✭evil_seed


    welcome to how to get on my ignore list.


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    #78
    The Crowman
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 991 ✭✭✭The Crowman


    Pretzeluck wrote: »
    Don't, I changed my citizenship to British one. Proud British now, we ruled half of the world at one point. And Ireland? Dying of famine from eating too many potatoes

    You couldn't have a picked a better time, congratulations.


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    #79
    Atoms for Peace
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,888 ✭✭✭Atoms for Peace


    stoneill wrote: »
    Don't forget Britain has loads of official names

    Rozzers
    Filth
    Pigs
    Fuzz
    Copper
    Plod

    Peeler's


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    #80
    Franz Von Peppercorn
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,070 ✭✭✭Franz Von Peppercorn


    The Crowman wrote: »
    You couldn't have a picked a better time, congratulations.

    Also he didn't do that. Because you can't. Not without living there for a 5 year period.


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    #81
    Badly Drunk Boy
    Registered Users Posts: 6,452 ✭✭✭Badly Drunk Boy


    Franz Von Peppercorn wrote: »
    Also he didn't do that. Because you can't. Not without living there for a 5 year period.
    And if he's "Proud British now" as he claims, why would would he start a thread called "Why do we have such stupid names"?


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    #82
    mikemac2
    Registered Users Posts: 2,926 ✭✭✭mikemac2


    Brits Out

    Always scooping up the big Euromillions jackpots :mad:


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    #83
    DS86DS
    Closed Accounts Posts: 691 ✭✭✭DS86DS


    How are the words Garda and Taoiseach stupid? Though the latter will soon probably be renamed Viceroy on behalf of our EU masters.


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    #84
    topper75
    Registered Users Posts: 5,942 ✭✭✭topper75


    DS86DS wrote: »
    How are the words Garda and Taoiseach stupid? Though the latter will soon probably be renamed Viceroy on behalf of our EU masters.

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