On 2001-09-07 23:29, LKtz wrote:
Anyone know how to say “blow me” in irish?
No, but you may find this phrase useful:
Tá tufóg ag imacht as do bhéal!
On 2001-09-08 09:06, Feadan wrote:
On 2001-09-07 23:29, LKtz wrote:
Anyone know how to say “blow me” in irish?No, but you may find this phrase useful:
Tá tufóg ag imacht as do bhéal!
Okay, what does it mean? 
On 2001-09-08 12:10, LKtz wrote:
Okay, what does it mean? >
Check your private messages and you will find out.
Cheers
David
“Póg mo tHoin, a Grá mo Croí” ?
I believe the original name that the pogues went by was Pog mo tHoin. Their management made them change it to something less confronataional.
Any help on how to pronounce them?
Brent
P.S. Feadan, what does it mean?
A plea:
Please remember that there really are “kids, grannies and small animals” that read this list. I would like to recommend a hearty dose of self censure. It is impossible to protect our children (and pets) from all that is rotten in the world, but is there really any reason to encourage it?
Thank you for listening. Post as you feel necessary.
Peace,
Erik
On 2001-09-10 07:08, ErikT wrote:
A plea:Please remember that there really are “kids, grannies and small animals” that read this list. I would like to recommend a hearty dose of self censure. It is impossible to protect our children (and pets) from all that is rotten in the world, but is there really any reason to encourage it?
Thank you for listening. Post as you feel necessary.
Peace,
Erik
I suppose this is all my fault (although I chose to respond to translation requests privately). My apologies to any and all who may have taken offense at my dragging this thread into the gutter.
Sincerely,
David de la Barre
Hope you don’t mind an answer from the sidelines…
First a personal disclaimer: I’m Yank, Irish by blood up both branches (though the fresher stream’s via my mom’s dad’s mom), never been ‘across the pond’ nor do I think I’ll ever be able to afford to go, but I have, since my high-school days, made a concerted effort to both exhaust and explode myths about Ireland that have prevailed, imo, just too long in my family and among my friends. That isn’t to say I’ve not enjoyed the total, at times, immersion in asmuch Irish culture as I possibly could reach out and grab or dive into. I certainly have, passionately. Now on to your topic.
Gaelic is, as I was told by a trustworthy fellow who had been over the ocean himself once or twice, a subfamily of the greater Celtic family of languages. Irish is, as the books say, the “last extant Gaelic language”. This means that by adopting words, phrases and sentiment from the languages of the people with whom the Irish came in contact – and obviously not always by choice – it survived where Scots and the Brythonic subfamily’s members like Welsh and Breton didn’t. My former friend and I both concluded, and I’ve since learned it’s a common conclusion to be made among academics and just plain folk back in Eire, that since Irish is the one surviving complete Gaelic tongue, this condition elevates it beyond the subfamily of which it is a member. Therefore, “Irish” is all that it needs be called. The “gaelic” bit is, by all this reasoning, somewhat redundant. Like saying “chocolate chocolate milk.”
I hope this was clear and helpful.
Silversleeves
Gotta watch your spelling. I see this happen all the time.
Siúl is pronounced “shool”, as in Siúl a Rún, or Siúl a Ghrá. It means walk, journey; the lyrics suggest someone asking their love to walk carefully and quietly. Whether this is to escape conscription or to journey safely hasn’t been agreed upon on these boards that I can recall. I’ve seen the related word siúil used, too.
Súil, on the other hand, is pronounced “SOO-uhl”, not “Shool”, and means “eye”, as Brian pointed out.
Vowel positioning is everything when it comes to pronunciation, with few exceptions. And that includes how you pronounce the “L” in the above two words, too, not just the “S”.
Another phrase you might find useful is
Is minic do bris an beal duine a srón.
(Many a time a man’s mouth broke his nose.)
Almost as universally applicable as “That would be an ecumenical matter.”
Hm. Haven’t noticed the Irish version of THAT yet…
This string brings back some memories. As kids we laughted at this one
céadsearc = “Sweetheart”
because ceadsearc sounds like card shark.
Another one: Scrudu (I think that’s the spelling) means test or examination (a school test) but sounds like “Screw do”. And best of all “Focal” means “word” but sounds like (with all due respect) Fuck-L, which is pretty close to Fuck-all.
(I see that the auto-sensor put x in place of a certain word. Works for me)
Yeah, Chiff seems to be good for that little “x” where it’s needed
Irish people just call the language Irish.
On C&F I tend to use “Irish Gaelic” to help future users of the search facility.
The phrase is not entirely redundant, as it serves to distinguish Irish from Scots Gaelic, which is also a living language. Manx is the other Gaelic language, but it is extinct.
Hello? Is this a wind-up? If so, haha. If not, check your facts before you go reasoning too much further…