Leaving Cert '11/'12 Off-Topic 2

Mysteriouschic

Hayezer wrote: »

It's given me all your Pokemon and stuff :O? Don't wana mess yours up :pac: :P

Create a new account and start again lol.

Dwellingdweller

Guys, I'm the biggest bogger here :P I have been known to occasionally drop in a few 'He be's', and 'I do be' and stuff like that into my sentences, and I have that Donegal knack of saying 'y'know' before everything and 'like' after pretty much everything as well. :pac:

Mysteriouschic

What's a bogger? is it just a country person? :S.

Togepi

Dwellingdweller wrote: »

Guys, I'm the biggest bogger here :P I have been known to occasionally drop in a few 'He be's', and 'I do be' and stuff like that into my sentences, and I have that Donegal knack of saying 'y'know' before everything and 'like' after pretty much everything as well. :pac:

Oh god my mam says "he bes". :pac: I only say "I do be" if I'm taking the piss. :P That and "I seen him".

Wanchor

Dwellingdweller wrote: »

Guys, I'm the biggest bogger here :P I have been known to occasionally drop in a few 'He be's', and 'I do be' and stuff like that into my sentences, and I have that Donegal knack of saying 'y'know' before everything and 'like' after pretty much everything as well. :pac:

I went to the gaeltacht down around there and that was basically every second word. How does something like that even develop?

ChemHickey

Togepi wrote: »

Dwellingdweller wrote: »

Guys, I'm the biggest bogger here :P I have been known to occasionally drop in a few 'He be's', and 'I do be' and stuff like that into my sentences, and I have that Donegal knack of saying 'y'know' before everything and 'like' after pretty much everything as well. :pac:

Oh god my mam says "he bes". :pac: I only say "I do be" if I'm taking the piss. :P That and "I seen him".

I say those often! What I found hilarious was when my grandmother told me about someone she knew and "he got death"! I was, shure now, that's a swell phrase.

leaveiton

ChemHickey wrote: »

I say those often! What I found hilarious was when my grandmother told me about someone she knew and "he got death"! I was, shure now, that's a swell phrase.

Jaysus, was she literally translating from Irish or what?!

Eathrin

He bes? Sorry that's too hardcore for me, I'm out.

Togepi

leaveiton wrote: »

Jaysus, was she literally translating from Irish or what?!

That's where most of it comes from. Bíonn sé = he does be.

Eathrin

ChemHickey wrote: »

I say those often! What I found hilarious was when my grandmother told me about someone she knew and "he got death"! I was, shure now, that's a swell phrase.

I actually find that really cool, not the death of course but the literal translation from Irish way in which it is said. Shure isn't that part of our identity? Even when some don't have Irish, they still have the roots implanted in their English.

Dwellingdweller

Wanchor wrote: »

I went to the gaeltacht down around there and that was basically every second word. How does something like that even develop?

Which one do you mean? :P I don't know how either would develop, to be honest. It's just a part of the accent haha.

Togepi wrote: »

Oh god my mam says "he bes". :pac: I only say "I do be" if I'm taking the piss. :P That and "I seen him".

Haha, I was mortified when I said 'I do be' in front of a few Dublin lads I met a while back. :P They nearly burst themselves laughing. It was only my 2nd time in Dublin, so I felt a bit out of my depth :pac: Another word which is basically compulsory in every sentence around here is 'lad'. eg: What's goin' lad? Lad, what's the craic? Pretty gay really. :L I've been told I have a pretty nice accent apart from the odd bogger focal though! :P

leaveiton

Togepi wrote: »

That's where most of it comes from. Bíonn sé = he does be.

Ah fair enough, I don't understand ye culchies! :P To be fair though I say "I do be" and the other forms of it a lot myself :P

ChemHickey

leaveiton wrote: »

ChemHickey wrote: »

I say those often! What I found hilarious was when my grandmother told me about someone she knew and "he got death"! I was, shure now, that's a swell phrase.

Jaysus, was she literally translating from Irish or what?!

I'm not sure! I was a bit shocked too! It's a hilarious phrase. I think it must be us westies (North-westies lawds) that have the * cool * phrases.

Togepi

Dwellingdweller wrote: »

Haha, I was mortified when I said 'I do be' in front of a few Dublin lads I met a while back. :P They nearly burst themselves laughing. It was only my 2nd time in Dublin, so I felt a bit out of my depth Another word which is basically compulsory in every sentence around here is 'lad'. eg: What's goin' lad? Lad, what's the craic? Pretty gay really. :L I've been told I have a pretty nice accent apart from the odd bogger focal though! :P

Oh god. :P Loads of people say "lad" here, but it's more like they're getting it from the English lads 'cause they sound more English than Irish when they say "yes lad!" :P

Eathrin wrote: »

Shure

:pac:

Eathrin

My favourite culchie phrase I ever heard was "to go for a space" as in to go for a walk or a ramble. Most people have never heard of it though, it was probably very local to the lad who said it.

Canard

I find culchies' way of saying "well" for hello so weird. My friend's boyfriend is from Waterford and once texted me saying "well patrick are you with jenny?" and it sounded so...WELL??? ARE YOU?!!? :pac:

Dwellingdweller

Togepi wrote: »

Oh god. :P Loads of people say "lad" here, but it's more like they're getting it from the English lads 'cause they sound more English than Irish when they say "yes lad!" :P

Naw, the way we say it is definitely worse. :P Another thing that's really common around here as a greeting is 'Yes boy!', where 'Yes' is pronounced 'Yay-iss' and 'boy!' is pronounced somewhat similarly to 'Bow-ie'. :pac: And Gaelic too ofc, there's a lot of convos around here that just flip between Irish and English nonstop haha. I love it. Speaking in Irish one minute then drop into English for a sec, then back to Irish :P

Bubbleope

haha a good phrase i ALWAYS hear me auntie say is "oh merciful hour" in her pure bogger accent! :pac: actually love it :L

Togepi

Patchy~ wrote: »

I find culchies' way of saying "well" for hello so weird. My friend's boyfriend is from Waterford and once texted me saying "well patrick are you with jenny?" and it sounded so...WELL??? ARE YOU?!!? :pac:

It's so awkward when you walk past someone and they say "how'ya". :P What do you say back? "Oh I'm fine, how are you?" or "hello"?? I usually just say "well" 'cause it can be both an answer and a question.

Dwellingdweller wrote: »

Naw, the way we say it is definitely worse. :P Another thing that's really common around here as a greeting is 'Yes boy!', where 'Yes' is pronounced 'Yay-iss' and 'boy!' is pronounced somewhat similarly to 'Bow-ie'. :pac: And Gaelic too ofc, there's a lot of convos around here that just flip between Irish and English nonstop haha. I love it. Speaking in Irish one minute then drop into English for a sec, then back to Irish :P

Ha that sounds daft! :pac: Aw I'd love to live somewhere where people switch from Irish to English all the time, I often do that in my mind, except sometimes there's French too. :P

Coeurdepirate

Bubbleope wrote: »

haha a good phrase i ALWAYS hear me auntie say is "oh merciful hour" in her pure bogger accent! :pac: actually love it :L

Hahaha one that a lot of my relatives say that I love is "with the help of god and a brown loaf" :L :L :L

ChemHickey

Where I'm from the a lot of 'Bohh' going around and 'goodluck' (meaning goodbye). Also the pronunciation of ewes (oyyys) and many, many more.

And every sentence starts with Shure, and if you don't pronounce the h in words beginning with an s (sure, sly, slick) you're not a true westerner.

Togepi

I love when people say "'magine" instead of "imagine". Especially when they gasp first in a pure Irish mammy way and then say "'magine". :P

Eathrin

What is bohh? As in cow?

Coeurdepirate

By the way, are the words beour, tome, feen etc used all over the country or just in Galway? Nothing better than hearing a skanger going "I SHIFTED AN ABSOLUTE BYOOOOOOOOOOOORE IN CPS AT THE WEEKEND" :P

Mysteriouschic

Togepi wrote: »

Ha that sounds daft! :pac: Aw I'd love to live somewhere where people switch from Irish to English all the time, I often do that in my mind, except sometimes there's French too. :P

I always switch from a English to Irish accent. If you heard me speaking you'd really notice it. It happens all the time. An saying "three" I usually say it just a "three" and then other times I'd say "tree" or even the word car or park.
I'd say it like "Cahr" "Pahrk" hard to explain.

Togepi

ChemHickey wrote: »

Where I'm from the a lot of 'Bohh' going around and 'goodluck' (meaning goodbye). Also the pronunciation of ewes (oyyys) and many, many more.

We always say "g'luck" instead of bye where I live, and ewes are "yoes". :pac:

@Mysteriouschic my friend does that all the time, he sounds English, and then when he says things like "half", "park", "art", etc, he just has a pure Irish bogger accent.

SureYWouldntYa

Im such a bogger the culchies make fun of me.............

Cosmic.Postman

Togepi wrote: »

I love when people say "'magine" instead of "imagine". Especially when they gasp first in a pure Irish mammy way and then say "'magine". :P

Oh my god, you just made me realise I say that all the time....MY LIFE IS A LIE!!!

Canard

Togepi wrote: »

It's so awkward when you walk past someone and they say "how'ya". :P What do you say back? "Oh I'm fine, how are you?" or "hello"?? I usually just say "well" 'cause it can be both an answer and a question.

OH MY GOD MY LIFE. This is the bane of my existence! :L I see people and I'm like hey and they're like hey how are you! and I'm like do I ignore you...or...do I say good and then ignore you...or do I *gasp* engage in conversation?! Its so awkward :'D

Coeurdepirate wrote: »

By the way, are the words beour, tome, feen etc used all over the country or just in Galway? Nothing better than hearing a skanger going "I SHIFTED AN ABSOLUTE BYOOOOOOOOOOOORE IN CPS AT THE WEEKEND" :P

We say beour ironically :P

Mysteriouschic

Does anyone elses grandparents call you chicken?
I find it really funny. "You alright chicken?"