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What exactly is English (Ireland) and the way we write?

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    #32
    liah
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    Irish colloquial grammar is absolutely nuts, and you've at least one word that isn't used much outside of Ireland: 'craic.'

    Makes sense.

    I've seen English (Canada) and genuinely can't figure out what the difference is. Perhaps it's to accommodate the Quebecois or add in some French accents or something, but our English is the same as British English.


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    #33
    AntiMatter
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    pickarooney wrote: »
    No, I'm including him as he emigrated to London before he started writing. I'm 'forgetting' Seamus Heaney as he's from the UK.

    Seamus Heaney is British?

    I thought if you were born in N.I. you could choose which nation/s you wished to be a citizen of.


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    #34
    opinion guy
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    enda1 wrote: »
    Yea nothing to do with keyboard mapping I'd say, that's on OS setting.
    Maybe placenames?

    Or else the odd use of Irish words in English, such as "marla" for plasticine or "craic" for fun or "cailín" for girl.

    <couldn't be bothered opening word to check the verity of this>


    ARGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
    ITs 'mála'

    There is no R


    Didn't you see the thread!?!?!?!


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    #35
    pickarooney
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    opinion guy wrote: »
    ARGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
    ITs 'mála'

    There is no R


    Didn't you see the thread!?!?!?!

    Is this an ironic post or is it just incidentally ironic?

    English (Canada) doesn't question the use of "hoser" but does autoreplace "Starbucks" with "Tim Horton's"


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    #36
    opinion guy
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    pickarooney wrote: »
    Is this an ironic post or is it just incidentally ironic?

    English (Canada) doesn't question the use of "hoser" but does autoreplace "Starbucks" with "Tim Horton's"

    A little from column A, a little from column B:D
    It was the r-less version where I'm from


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    #37
    pickarooney
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    AntiMatter wrote: »
    Seamus Heaney is British?

    I thought if you were born in N.I. you could choose which nation/s you wished to be a citizen of.

    Fair enough, I was cheating by discounting someone who immigrated along with those who emigrated :D


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    #38
    Capt'n Midnight
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    we've got an erotic 'r'


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    #39
    upandcumming
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    opinion guy wrote: »
    ARGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
    ITs 'mála'

    There is no R


    Didn't you see the thread!?!?!?!
    It is márla.


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    #40
    Mike 1972
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    So the militant Gaelgoirs have been lying all along and "our native language" (TM) is actually English (Ireland) :confused:
    AntiMatter wrote: »
    I thought if you were born in N.I. you could choose which nation/s you wished to be a citizen of.

    Not necessarily.


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    #41
    walshb
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    I thought maybe there was an Irish English version so words
    like 'threwn' and 'inanyway' would work?


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    #42
    pickarooney
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    Mike 1972 wrote: »
    So the militant Gaelgoirs have been lying all along and "our native language" (TM) is actually English (Ireland) :confused:

    There's no collective "native language". Each individual has a native tongue, or birth language (the clue is in the name) - that being the first one they learned as a child.


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    #43
    Capt'n Midnight
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    UK = United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

    You can be Irish and part of the UK


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    #44
    opinion guy
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    upandcumming wrote: »
    It is márla.
    Not where I come from it ain't


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    #45
    emeraldstar
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    opinion guy wrote: »
    ARGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
    ITs 'mála'

    Bag?
    opinion guy wrote: »
    Didn't you see the thread!?!?!?!

    Didn't you?!


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    #46
    e2e
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    pickarooney wrote: »
    No, I'm including him as he emigrated to London before he started writing. I'm 'forgetting' Seamus Heaney as he's from the UK.
    "had" emigrated earlier or started to write on board of the ship?


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    #47
    pickarooney
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    e2e wrote: »
    "had" emigrated earlier or started to write on board of the ship?

    Don't try to be smart when you don't know what you're talking about. It won't end well.


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    #48
    e2e
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    won't be ending well? wouldn't be for the first time?:D


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    #49
    Big Ears
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    pickarooney wrote: »
    Don't try to be smart when you don't know what you're talking about. It won't end well.

    You make it sound like you're going to kneecap him.


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    #50
    Killer Pigeon
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    Hiberno-English

    Courtesy of wikipedia.


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    #51
    upandcumming
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    opinion guy wrote: »
    Not where I come from it ain't

    Wrong-town?


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    #52
    opinion guy
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    upandcumming wrote: »
    Wrong-town?
    Oh seriously just read the other thread. Many people agreed there was no r.
    Probably ts a regional thing


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    #53
    Liam Byrne
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    opinion guy wrote: »
    Oh seriously just read the other thread. Many people agreed there was no r.
    Probably ts a regional thing

    No "i" or apostrophe either ?


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    #54
    opinion guy
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    Liam Byrne wrote: »
    No "i" or apostrophe either ?

    Nope. Its a recession!


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    #55
    upandcumming
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    opinion guy wrote: »
    Oh seriously just read the other thread. Many people agreed there was no r.
    Probably ts a regional thing

    Many people are wrong so.


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    #56
    Terry
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    Karen Eager Widow wrote: »
    Pretty sure they say "so forth" in Britain.
    Indeed they do.
    What's your point, Frodo?


    Britain of all places. Who would have thought?
    Of all the places in the world where people might actually use English phrases, I really never expected them to be used in Britain.
    My mind is blown.


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