New Vocab Anyone??

Le Rack

So since yer'll all after being immersed in new accents and surroundings and what not, has anoyone else found themselves picking up new words int heir everyday vocab, since starting here "Savage" "Killer" and "Cheers" have been spoken by me countless times throughout the day, whereas at home you'd be doing well to find someone who know's the meaning of these words!

Scraggs

Bah, I'm a tad bitter by 'savage' being adopted by people who dont use it in its proper and best sense[imo]


I hate the word 'score' I never used it til I came to UCD and when I say it here at home I'm laughed at.

XchampagneX

I was talking to a guy from Northern Ireland the other day and he kept saying he was wrecked last night!

"me too" says I
"But i thought you didn't go out last night?" Says Mr Northern Ireland
"I didn't..!" I replied
"But you just said you were wrecked?" Mr Northern Ireland suddenly looked perplexed
"I was wrecked! That's the reason I stayed in and didn't hit 21s!" I tried to explain!

That went on for at least 5 minutes. Turns out "wrecked" in Northern Irish means drunk, hammered, locked etc. Took a while for us to tease that out!

Hackman

Some guy called me "brother" yesterday. I liked that.

singingstranger

I always used "cheers" but must admit that "score" was a new one when I got there two years ago. Went to school in Mullingar, it was always "met" or "ate the face off".

Edit: was Mullingar worth my 1500th post? Prob not.

Paul Tergat

Ah the countless arguments me and SS have had over the past 2 years about this....2 of the most popular being:

Cupboard = "press"
Bacon = "rashers"

Shhhhh Gav!

singingstranger

Oi! You're in Ireland now, boy, you play by our rules. I, meanwhile, will stick to calling rashers(!) "Schweinfleisch".

Although, good point - slight tangent, is scone "sk-own" or "sc-gone"?

Paul Tergat

Definitely the second one...poll anyone (may regret that!)

Waltons

I'm more of a "sk-own" man, personally.
Haven't picked up too much extra vocab, although I do say "Cool" a lot more than I used to

Hackman

Muffin?? (Starts war and runs away...)

snickerpuss

I wouldn't ever get away with saying sc-gone on the northside...

Le Rack

Do you know the muffin man???

I haven't heard anyone say score up here yet! That was a big word in Wex bout 5yrs ago....however hook up I've heard a bit up here...

generalmiaow

yis're all wrong. it's skaow-un

XchampagneX

Le Rack wrote:

Do you know the muffin man???

I haven't heard anyone say score up here yet! That was a big word in Wex bout 5yrs ago....however hook up I've heard a bit up here...

Who lives on Drury Lane?

sk-own!

Stepherunie

Yeah score was a newish term to me - i was used to 'meet' ah those were the days.

I say darling a lot more than I used....

Le Rack

what if you use both???!
Or as I called em as a nipper, "Nonney Buns"?

Le Rack

Stepherunie wrote:

I say darling a lot more than I used....

I blame seb for that I'm at it too

fish-head

I find myself saying savage alot more than I used to. But it's usually withing the phrase 'savage, like that vegetable that rhymes with savage', which makes it slightly more acceptable.

Scraggs

fish-head wrote:

I find myself saying savage alot more than I used to. But it's usually withing the phrase 'savage, like that vegetable that rhymes with savage', which makes it slightly more acceptable.

Arrrrrrrrrrghhhhhhh!!!! Not 'savage cabbage' thats a complete bastardisation of all that is good about savage! That really gets my goat especially when people say 'saváiste cabáiste' *shudders*

Yes, I do need to get out more, but I've accepted it which is the first step;)

Another thing I've picked up from my Donegal mates is a slight accent when talkin to them [esp. as Gaeilge], 'away' meaning going or gone eg. 'Are you away now?' and saying 'bhuel a haisce'.

Oh and another thing I used to say the whole time was 'state of you', from taking the piss of this guy trying to sign us up to C&E last year. It gradually turned into "stayt o'ya" with my lovely bogger accent:p

And I'm glad to say that I've imparted my lovely 'Well Sham' and 'allright Sublick' to various people.

Stabshauptmann

bleedin rapid!

humbert

*Enjoys a warm fuzzy feeling knowing that he's escaped very lightly:rolleyes:*
My much loved "th" has taken quite a beating down here but it's survived, and I've never once used the word savage as a sign of enthusiasm or agreement which allows me to sleep at night.

Stabshauptmann

basically everything from a ross o carroll kelly novel; score, boned, scoops, I even call the carriageway "the dueler", and for insults: shut up you gee bag , ah your (grand)ma's gash, skobes.

Though it has been pointed out recently that Ive flip-flopped from being the ultimate cynical, capitalist, fascist to being a tree hugging lefty hippy.

To these people I say, my impeccable hygiene should never allow me to be confused with a hippy, and you’ve probably just confused my muscular arms for trees, it happens. Remember, I may not be as callous and evil as I was, but Im still as arrogant (and handsome) as ever.

elmyra

My vocab has gone mental since moving to Dublin! I'm going between two different extremes between working out in Clontarf and hanging out with the southsiders over here....I think I've started to horrify both groups due to a tendancy to say 'legend' a lot which irks the work crowd and causing raised eyebrows in ucd by randomly coming out with phrases like 'ya mad scone' and 'I'll get ya with the back o'me pimp hand'. My family no longer actually know what I'm saying when I go home at weekends.

Stock phrases at the moment that I seem to have picked up around ucd are
's/he's a legend'
'hate THAT'
'that's gay'
'your mother' - not, 'yore ma'
'your face'
'that's horseporn'.

Also can't stop using 'in fairness' as a speech interjection and at this point am annoying even myself. 'Score' was fairly familiar to me all along, but then again home's not a huge distance from Dublin. We did tend to say 'shifted' more though or 'threw the lips on'.

Phrases of mine that you should all use to make me cooler:
'top banana'
'flamin nora'
'i would in your mother'
'damn skippy'
'ya so would'
'how do'...the untimate start to any text message.

fish-head

Scraggs wrote:

Arrrrrrrrrrghhhhhhh!!!! Not 'savage cabbage' thats a complete bastardisation of all that is good about savage! That really gets my goat especially when people say 'saváiste cabáiste' *shudders*

Ah but you see I don't ever have to say savage cabbage. That's the beauty of the phrase, it's like a sneaky little insinuation.

Le Rack wrote:

how do?

My guitar teacher, without fail, says this to me every week in his little liverpuddlian accent. It's bleedin' great!

singingstranger

Do you reckon I could introduce "mantube" (as in, "that sucks a substantial amount of mantube") being out of the country? Can we make this some sort of UCD Boardsie mission maybe?

Sangre

I avoid this problem by not talking to people with bogger accents.

elmyra

singingstranger wrote:

Do you reckon I could introduce "mantube" (as in, "that sucks a substantial amount of mantube") being out of the country? Can we make this some sort of UCD Boardsie mission maybe?

Ugh jeez, Gav. You're so vulgar.





Secretly adopts word

humbert

Sangre wrote:

I avoid this problem by not talking to people with bogger accents.

ledge, deffo, da luas, soooooo random, you wont escape!!!

tintinr35

im using the word "banter" alot more lately for some reason

Umaro

Scraggs wrote:

Arrrrrrrrrrghhhhhhh!!!! Not 'savage cabbage' thats a complete bastardisation of all that is good about savage! That really gets my goat especially when people say 'saváiste cabáiste' *shudders*

I concur.

Probably the word I've picked up from UCD is 'score', in Wicklow it always used to be 'shift' or 'met'. Plus, you can say 'scoreboard' too, it's like a nice little offshoot of the phrase, "Wouldn't mind adding her to the scoreboard!".

One thing I stopped saying is "Oh-mai-Gawd!". Now it just irks the hell out of me. Damn the oh-mai-gawd squads and their perfectly coiffered hair. Damn them to hell!

gubbie

My own personal favorite is one thing I made up myself (cos thats more fun) Its "mus" It means me and these guys but not you. As in for example:

If you are going down to the shop with some others but your friend is with some others so shes gonna be staying behind so she's just wondering and she says "Where are ye guys going" and normally you'd say "We are going to the shop" but "we" includes that person who's not going so instead you say "Mus are going to the shop"
Pointless... YA


And I hate the word "met" cos it don't say anything really. Now "ate the face off"-brilliant I like the old "tack" word-I blame the ag science class rep for that


And I love "Story?" cos I'm lazy and it cuts down having to say a lot and "You tool"

'that's gay'
I CAN'T STOP SAYING IT