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quarryman · Joined: 14 Dec 2006 Posts: 417 Location: Sligo

I have forgotten to post the best allround word used in Ireland.
FECK
Can be used in front of Mother Superior, the Judge and even me.

You could say Feck off you little....
I couldn't give a feck
I'm fecked

The Irish word for "see" is feach and the past tense is fech, which is the excuse we all use when using the FECK word.

Try it in front of the natives, we all use it.

blowin · Posted: Fri Dec 29, 2006 9:39 pm Post subject:

after , when used in a phrase such as " I am after .." means that the activity which the speaker is about to describe in the present tense should in fact be in the recent past tense ( if there is such a thing ) .
UK : " Hello , what are you after ? " = ( still in UK ) "how can I help you ?" or "what the feck do you want ? " , depending on inflection and please note my use of the real Irish word I have just learned .
So , imagine that a workmate turns up about 2 o'clock and seems to be struggling to ask for something , the conversation might go :
uk " Hi . What are you after ?"
ROI " I'm just after having my lunch"
uk " lunch ?? "
ROI " full breakfast roll with bacon , egg , sausage , black puddin , white puddin , hash brownie and lots and lots of sauce "
uk " er , well , I've made cheesy dips actually but I'll see what I can do .... "
So you feel taken for granted while matey from the ROI thinks you are a complete plonker because , as he told you , he is after ( has just had ) his lunch .

quarryman · Joined: 14 Dec 2006 Posts: 417 Location: Sligo

I couldn't have put it better myself.

PS most Irish people use FECK with great affection.

My son/ daughter...the little fecker
My mother/father/ elderly person...the ould fecker.

The next phrase is ...." ye good thing ye "

Translation... you are very good a particular activity.....you are a very attractive female/male. If you are in the throws of an activity at which you are very good, you might hear the cry...." go on ye good thing ye "
NB do not say this to a very large hairy male who could beat you at Greco - Roman wrestling...... unless you want him to....

blowin · Posted: Fri Dec 29, 2006 10:24 pm Post subject:

" Good man yerself " --- a casual compliment . I think it is a particularly nice one !

gai · Joined: 14 Dec 2006 Posts: 83 Location: Co Donegal

So. A word tacked onto the end of many sentences. It has no meaning and even I as an Irish person am very confused by it.
Examples -
I'll see you later then, so.
It's raining again, so.
That's a fine beast (cow), so.
Enjoy your dinner, so.

wayoutwest · Joined: 28 Dec 2006 Posts: 184 Location: west clare

beef to her heels like a Mullingar heffer! made famous in some movie, but I've heard it used a few times, too.

not a compliment, unless you want to be seen as a potential farmer's wife

There's the inhale, too. more a waterford thing than up here, but a sharp inhale can mean anything if used correctly. Very Happy

"So, what's strange?"
this means 'any news, what have you been up to?'
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wayoutwest · Joined: 28 Dec 2006 Posts: 184 Location: west clare

oo, I forgot the one I found the most useful.

'sprong' = pitchfork.

That confused me no end...
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quarryman · Joined: 14 Dec 2006 Posts: 417 Location: Sligo

We have only been living here [the Wesht] for three and a half years and our daughters have started to use the dreaded "like" phrase.

We were in the shop, like, and this lad said, like............and I was, like...

or could this be the dreaded U.S. television accent afflicition.

Bloody foreign TV.

gai · Joined: 14 Dec 2006 Posts: 83 Location: Co Donegal

wayland · Joined: 14 Dec 2006 Posts: 1171 Location: Campile. Wexford

A toast heard in a pub. " May yer be in evin a full alf owr before the divil knows yer dead" It may well be as old as meself but it made me laugh Laughing

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