Irish people using the word "Mate"

Lux23

What should an Irish person call their friends then? Whats an acceptable term?

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Lux23 wrote: »

What should an Irish person call their friends then? Whats an acceptable term?

Doesn't really matter, someone here would have a problem with it...

jugger0

Bloke is wayyyy worse, fuppin hate that word.

antidark777

Augmerson wrote: »

I've been calling friends mate for years and I don't see any problem with it. People need to get over this idea that we can't use a word because the English or the Australians use it, ffs grow out of that mentality. And so what if they do use the words too?

When the **** are people in this country going to cop the **** on and just let people on and mind their own ****ing business?

This is typical Ireland.

Got it spot on. After all, aren't we using the english language?

garancafan

"Don't forget the turnips for me and my mate" - James Joyce (A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man) 1916.

Scorpion Sting

I quite like using the term at home but rarely use it in everyday life.

Simply.Young

stanley1980 wrote: »

Ps. It also really annoys me when people insert asterixs so they can swear! what's the point?!

Maybe because the forum does it automatically.

****. ****. Bull****. ****. ******. ****. See?

Augmerson

stanley1980 wrote: »

Ps. It also really annoys me when people insert asterixs so they can swear! what's the point?!

Surely you are trolling.

stooodent

jesusinaglanza wrote: »

What is the story with this.... "mate" has only creeped into Irish society in the past few years, I die a little inside when i hear this word being used.

"mate" is for people from the UK or OZ...suddenly us Irish clowns are using it on a daily basis. it is embarrasing

"thanks mate" or "cheers mate" does not lie well with the Irish accent...

I agree with this statement so much it hurts :pac:

kfallon

Lux23 wrote: »

What should an Irish person call their friends then? Whats an acceptable term?

****ace, ****bag or trout

holystungun9

due to living in different countries it is easy to pick up expressions and sayings. So for that reason I ain't apologizing anytime soon for any time I may 'mate'.

Karmaman

Can be a bit confrontational when someone that isn't a friend decides to call you "Mate", you don't call yor mates "Mate".
Better off with Buddy....A la Keith Duffy, Howarye Buddies

stovelid

I use it all the time. It's just a harmless social nicety.

You should bring it with people that say it to you instead of whinging on boards about it.

Paddy_B

how are ya me auld flower

Owwmykneecap

I met some people from boards today, we meet regularly. I informed them I had been posting in after hours for the last few weeks. They said I'd missed the boat by several years.


OP, I can see their point.

Coriolanus

garancafan wrote: »

"Don't forget the turnips for me and my mate" - James Joyce (A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man) 1916.

If it's good enough for Joyce, it's good enough for me.

Wagon

So now we aren't allowed to say "mate"? What the hell is wrong with people? After Hours used to have funny threads that made you laugh, or kept you informed and you logged off feeling better normally. Now you access the site and it's like getting a kick in the balls. "Irish people do this..., "irish people are sooo embarrasing..., "dont you hate it when the irish..."

why not try and post a fun thread? like the one where someone found that ****e bedsit with a little bedroom built into it! More of that

kylith

I see no problem with it. Words are often traded between countries and even languages.

Forest Master

So, the fact that we've established that James Joyce said it almost 100 years ago - does that not make the original post a moot point now?

The OP wrote:

"mate" has only creeped into Irish society in the past few years

PROVEN TO BE FACTUALLY WRONG (as well as the word being "crept").
We have irrefutable hard evidence that proves prior usage that pre-dates your claim of "the past few years". FACT. PWNED. OP FAIL. YOWSER!

stanley1980

I very much doubt that many of these 'cockney-wannabes' who ape other cultures have read Joyce any time lateley!

Augmerson

jesusinaglanza wrote: »

"thanks mate" or "cheers mate" does not lie well with the Irish accent...

This is small dog complex at it's best. The only problem OP has with the word mate and Irish people saying it is that OP thinks it comes from England and Australia, much bigger Anglophile countries. It's the 21st century and it's time to drop this kind of attitude.

take everything

Wagon wrote: »

So now we aren't allowed to say "mate"? What the hell is wrong with people? After Hours used to have funny threads that made you laugh, or kept you informed and you logged off feeling better normally. Now you access the site and it's like getting a kick in the balls. "Irish people do this..., "irish people are sooo embarrasing..., "dont you hate it when the irish..."

why not try and post a fun thread? like the one where someone found that ****e bedsit with a little bedroom built into it! More of that

Ironically that thread is funny because its about Irish gombeenism.

ejmaztec

Are we still allowed to call people "sugar-drawers"?

Wagon

take everything wrote: »

Ironically that thread is funny because its about Irish gombeenism.

Yeah but he deserved it.

HavingCrack

We need a new forum for all those moany threads to be dumped :pac:

rubadub

jesusinaglanza wrote: »

"mate" has only creeped into Irish society in the past few years,

Past few years!?! where the fuck have you been!

fryup wrote: »

<---it works both ways-->

you have english people using "paddy terms" like craic, bejayus, eejit etc

Actually craic is english in origin, several other "paddy terms" are english in origin too, there was an article on it in some paper a few weeks ago.

Revolution9

If you hate English words so much go speak Irish!

Coriolanus

rubadub wrote: »

Past few years!?! where the fuck have you been!

Actually craic is english in origin, several other "paddy terms" are english in origin too, there was an article on it in some paper a few weeks ago.

I LOVE IT! God help the next shinner to use the word in front of me now, I'll lambaste his race-traitor self for having a secret-black-and-tan heart. Lolol.

Star Bingo

i don't say "mai-" as it'd sound ere as mate to me means sexual partner. also the reason for this thread's very existence.. i've become weary of its (over)use n also wonder why them what use it have not.

will say mn, bro, geez, fella, chick, chico .. just about anything that takes my fancy. anything i don't repeat too often - anything but.

Tubsandtiles

I can see an English tourist walking into a butcher in Ireland and saying "Alright mate", with the butcher replying that "mates fresh" and the confusion begins

ILA

I sort of have a small hang-up about it, I immensely dislike feeling the urge to have to use it to conform (for instance, in an area or facility where people seem to address people as "mate" most often).

That said, I'm a terrible hoor for calling everyone whose name I can't remember "lad". Well lad!

fonecrusher1

Whats the big deal? Is it worse than saying bud, chief, boss, lad, pal, horse???

round tower huntsman

jesusinaglanza wrote: »

What is the story with this.... "mate" has only creeped into Irish society in the past few years, I die a little inside when i hear this word being used.

"mate" is for people from the UK or OZ...suddenly us Irish clowns are using it on a daily basis. it is embarrasing

"thanks mate" or "cheers mate" does not lie well with the Irish accent...

relax mate!

Pangea

Mate is definitely not an Irish term, anyone who says it is wrong but it is creeping in nowadays since the Irish watch a lot of English TV and football etc.
Same way 'dude' or any other term is creeping in.
Mate just sounds very english.
Here's Ronnie Drews view on the word mate
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjr8O6MonUk

Dyr

Pangea wrote: »

Mate is definitely not an Irish term, anyone who says it is wrong but it is creeping in nowadays since the Irish watch a lot of English TV and football etc.
Same way 'dude' or any other term is creeping in.
Mate just sounds very english.
Here's Ronnie Drews view on the word mate
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjr8O6MonUk

Ronnie was a notorious cranky bollix and he was from Kingstown

Dubliners have used mate as a term for as long as I remember.

sunflower27

I say mate a good bit as I am from Australia. I haven't heard many Irish people say it, although one guy I used to work with started saying it after he heard me saying it. He just started saying it one day and never stopped I'd been there months and not noticed him saying it. He has a quite strong Irish accent so it sounded a bit unusual.

The Scientician

It's better than being called cúnt.

Pangea

Bambi wrote: »

Ronnie was a notorious cranky bollix and he was from Kingstown

Dubliners have used mate as a term for as long as I remember.

Really?
Il have to take your word for it as I am not familiar with what the Dubs say but no one I know says it and if they do its because they picked it up from English influence.

Liam Byrne

"Ah sher I'll mate ya down the pub lay'her"

Mate doesn't bother me anywhere near as much as the supremely irritating "dood" - now THAT is chronic surfer-speak that should be banned under threat of imprisonment!

nacho libre

Pangea wrote: »

Really?
Il have to take your word for it as I am not familiar with what the Dubs say but no one I know says it and if they do its because they picked it up from English influence.

I've rarely heard it used either.

Mental_Legend

"Dude" and "mate" irritate me when I hear people say them a lot, but for me, the word "cheers" drives me insane! It's not that it's an expression used commonly in England that annoys me, just the word itself gets on my nerves.

foxyboxer

I'm not your bud, guy!
I'm not your guy, mate!
I'm not your mate, pal!
I'm not your pal, bud!
I'm not your bud, guy!
I'm not your guy, mate!
I'm not your mate, pal!
I'm not your pal, bud!
I'm not your bud, guy!
I'm not your guy, mate!
I'm not your mate, pal!
I'm not your pal, bud!
I'm not your bud, guy!
I'm not your guy, mate!
I'm not your mate, pal!
I'm not your pal, bud!

Dyr

nacho libre wrote: »

I've rarely heard it used either.

Usually in a different context..."is he your mate?" "are youse mates now?". But I've heard it since i was a kid.

--LOS--

I can be guilty of using it an odd only because my sister has been studying for years in the uk and uses it all the time. I will never ever say 'trainers' though :pac:

KamiKazeKitten

I use mate sometimes - only when I'm getting annoyed with someone though!
Funny that...

fontanalis

Fair dinkum it can happen very easily, it only happened to me this avo.

What about using "yeah" at the end of a sentence; is that a recent thing?

old hippy

It's nothing new, mates. I been using it for 20 odd years. At home and here in London town.

Some people are too sensitive when it comes to language, you get me?

fontanalis

Domo230 wrote: »

I always use "Alright mate" and "cheers mate". Never thought it was weird.

pfft, weirdo!

4leto

Guilty as charged I'm an alright mate, man and now that I think of it, in an English accent as well.

I have no idea were that habit came from or when, but I did live in London Years ago for about 6 months.

I am wondering what I used before.

--LOS--

fontanalis wrote: »

Fair dinkum it can happen very easily, it only happened to me this avo.

What about using "yeah" at the end of a sentence; is that a recent thing?

not as bad as 'yer', I know english people who text that at the end of sentences