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Re: The Irish Language - Lets try & learn one word a week.

Posted: Sat Feb 24, 2018 12:34 am
by BaggyTrousers
big mervyn wrote:
BaggyTrousers wrote:
Rooster wrote:Ar mhaith leat gnéas a bheith agat liomsa?
Very useful phrase :D
Despite being as gay as the next man Rooster, I'll have to decline, your missus would gub me. :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
homaighnéasach

We should have a similar thread for Ulster Scots - infinitely more entertaining.

Can't find a satisfactory Ulster Scots word for gay.

"Big Jessie" has been suggested but I don't really buy that one.

"A wee bit shy of hiself" is the best I've found :lol:
Jaysus Merv don't encourage him, he'll set one up for respect of languages and culture forbye.

Re: The Irish Language - Lets try & learn one word a week.

Posted: Sat Feb 24, 2018 12:34 am
by BaggyTrousers
big mervyn wrote:
BaggyTrousers wrote:
Rooster wrote:Ar mhaith leat gnéas a bheith agat liomsa?
Very useful phrase :D
Despite being as gay as the next man Rooster, I'll have to decline, your missus would gub me. :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
homaighnéasach

We should have a similar thread for Ulster Scots - infinitely more entertaining.

Can't find a satisfactory Ulster Scots word for gay.

"Big Jessie" has been suggested but I don't really buy that one.

"A wee bit shy of hiself" is the best I've found :lol:
Jaysus Merv don't encourage him, he'll set one up for respect of languages and culture forbye.

Re: The Irish Language - Lets try & learn one word a week.

Posted: Sat Feb 24, 2018 12:44 am
by Rooster
BaggyTrousers wrote:
Rooster wrote:Ar mhaith leat gnéas a bheith agat liomsa?
Very useful phrase :D
Despite being as gay as the next man Rooster, I'll have to decline, your missus would gub me. Image Image Image Image Image
Was good in years past out and about the pubs and discos south of the border if a few girls started talking between themselves about you, that really stopped them as they then thought you had understood all they had said ImageImageImage

Re: The Irish Language - Lets try & learn one word a week.

Posted: Sun Feb 25, 2018 12:17 am
by Gary
"Gay" in Ulster Scots is "gay", but spoken in a Ballymena accent.

Re: The Irish Language - Lets try & learn one word a week.

Posted: Sun Feb 25, 2018 12:32 pm
by BR
Gary wrote:"Gay" in Ulster Scots is "gay", but spoken in a Ballymena accent.
and nearly always prefaced with the word 'wee'.

Re: The Irish Language - Lets try & learn one word a week.

Posted: Mon Feb 26, 2018 10:20 pm
by Kofi Annan
Taxi in Irish is pronounced TAXI

Re: The Irish Language - Lets try & learn one word a week.

Posted: Tue Feb 27, 2018 2:24 pm
by HwoodMike2umate
But, for the avoidance of any doubt, it is spelt TACSAI. It all just goes to show that there are a good few easy words to learn folks.

Re: The Irish Language - Lets try & learn one word a week.

Posted: Tue Feb 27, 2018 2:38 pm
by Russ
Craic

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Re: The Irish Language - Lets try & learn one word a week.

Posted: Tue Feb 27, 2018 2:41 pm
by Dave
Warren Gatland

Re: The Irish Language - Lets try & learn one word a week.

Posted: Thu Mar 01, 2018 4:11 pm
by HwoodMike2umate
As the end of the world as we know it approaches from the East you may be interested to know that he word for SNOW is SNEACHTA - and if you want to pronounce it properly here is a useful link - https://www.bitesize.irish/inirish/1429

Re: The Irish Language - Lets try & learn one word a week.

Posted: Thu Mar 01, 2018 7:01 pm
by rumncoke
Is Sneachta not something a weemin might sit on .

And the damper the better


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Re: The Irish Language - Lets try & learn one word a week.

Posted: Thu Mar 01, 2018 7:33 pm
by Russ
rumncoke wrote:Is Sneachta not something a weemin might sit on .

And the damper the better


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I fecking hope the press never see this forum and take rums posts as out attitude towards wahmen

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Re: The Irish Language - Lets try & learn one word a week.

Posted: Tue Mar 13, 2018 1:27 pm
by HwoodMike2umate
WEEK 5 - another easy one this week. The Irish for Banana is ........ Banana.

Re: The Irish Language - Lets try & learn one word a week.

Posted: Tue Mar 13, 2018 3:02 pm
by BR
HwoodMike2umate wrote:WEEK 5 - another easy one this week. The Irish for Banana is ........ Banana.
Does the Irish 'Banana' not just mean a female Anna?

Re: The Irish Language - Lets try & learn one word a week.

Posted: Fri Mar 23, 2018 6:02 pm
by HwoodMike2umate
WEEK 6 - lets have some help from Trip Advisor - https://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Travel-g1 ... Slang.html