does anyone here use that reputation thing instead of the thanks deelie?
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does anyone here use that reputation thing instead of the thanks deelie?
Those George Hook fawning over Sky adverts really gets on my wick.
It's "aimed" at the young country folk who attend Sligo IT in their GAA jersies and love their county and Man Unitshed. COOOOOOOOOL like.Quote:
Originally Posted by De Town
I love 98fm to be honest. The music is great!Quote:
Originally Posted by atfconline
I always catch the end of Dermot and Dave in the morning on the way to work and they're pretty decent. The guy on the way home isn't bad either.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QINzmRPfMCUQuote:
Originally Posted by Pauro 76
yes, he is a p rick. I cannot understand how he has got to where he is.He's from Cork, Talks with some kind of anglo-cised d4 accent, and is not funny.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pauro 76
What a tool
I think he's great. Best persona on the radio. George for Taoiseach!
We grew up watching American, British and Irish TV, and reading American, British and Irish books (well, some of us). Of course we've assimilated some other dialect words and idioms. I would like to eliminate egregious use of the word "like". It, like, does my head in.Quote:
Originally Posted by Riddickcule
Really enjoyed Nicolas Roche's column in the Indo, a class act on and off the bike.
I don't like walking home at night in noisy shoes. I just feel safer at night when I'm quieter. But if I were to go into a shoe shop and ask for a stealthy pair of smart-casual shoes so that people won't hear me coming, I might get a strange look.
Behind my team, Longford Town are the worlds greatest football club.
Soccer came about in Ireland, afaik, and is thrown at us by all the GAA heads who look down their nose at football while they refer to Gaelic as football. Don't think it's anything to do with American influence in their case.Quote:
Originally Posted by Riddickcule
My grandparents all use "backyard" and they grew up in the 30s/40s.
Ma is used all over the country for mother, grandma is a natural progression.
Considering how much Americans are of Irish descent, it's highly conceivable that they've developed some bits of American English from Irish English.
I always took it that back yard was literally a yard (as in, an enclosed concrete area; I'm assuming that's a literal definition!). My grandparents had a back yard, but that's what it was. Yards don't have grass, whereas gardens do; that's the distinction I'd draw which isn't drawn in America.
Yep would go along with that, we never used 'backyard' here in the American sense, it was always two words, 'back yard', purely a yard out the back, concrete or tarmac, or just bare soil even.
Soccer is not an Irish invention, very much a Victorian English contrivance, to distinguish the Association code from all the other footballing codes, especially Rugby.
Oh, and Grandma may seem like a natural progression, but it isn't. Very much an American term. Granny, Gran, Nanny, Nan would overwhelmingly be the terms of choice here. I'd love to see a straw poll on it actually, I'd be surprised if any more than 5% of people would use Grandma here, even now.
I'd be curious too. These things are picked up from your peers mostly, so it tends to depend on location and generation. I remember as a kid, my mother once asking us to call her "mam" (as she addressed her mother, and at least some of my cousins addressed their mothers), but she was always "mum" to me and my brothers, or occasionally "mom" if calling for her (I guess the o sound is easier to elongate). My grandmother was "granny", but she was "nan" to most of my cousins.Quote:
Originally Posted by stann
Dunno about the Grandda and Grandma thing.. in our house my parents were always referred to as Ma and Da so the progression does seem to fit.
No, that's what I meant above, probably didn't word it too well.
Ma and Da would be hugely popular terms (the most common, nationwide?), and it would seem an obvious progression, but overwhelmingly that obvious step isn't taken, and gran(ny) and nan are streets ahead, IMO.
Mind you grandda I'd say is rather more common than grandma over here, but again it'd be interesting to see the numbers.
(Not that interesting, obviously, but you know...) :D
It is one of the few linguistic universals (or strictly, near-universals) that babies describe their mothers with a 'm' sound, and their fathers with a 'd' or 'p' sound.
I'd imagine that most who called their father something beginning with 'd'(dad, dada, daddy) will call their grandfather 'grandda' or 'grandad', and most who call their father something beginning with 'p' (pa, papa) will call their grandfather 'grandpa' (pronounced 'grampa', due to linguistic assimilation)
Although some people do say 'gramma' for the reasons mentioned above, this doesn't explain how a child moves from 'm' with their mother to 'n' for their grandmother - 'granny'. Well, the reason they say it is because they're mimicking what they've heard, but i don't know how it originally started. The similarity to 'nanny' probably isn't coincidental.
Do people really like that "Me no speak Americano" song? It's garbage tbh, dont get the appeal at all.
Dont start me on what passes for music in pubs and clubs these days. Spent most of tonight wanting to bottle people coz of songs like "stereo love" "alasandro" and "Californian Gurls" What the F**K is that shyster about. God if I hear one more lady gaga or black eyed peas song this weekend I will actually kill someone (probably a dj coz its mainly their fault)Quote:
Originally Posted by Dunny
I agree, although one of Gaga's songs and the Black Eyed Peas' songs were catchy :o
But, by and large, the music is one of the reasons I dislike clubs.
i think sligo people just randomly ,mention longford town to get easy thanks, or is that just me?
Why would we do that? Don't be ridiculous, alot of us genuinely like LT and want to see them do well. Plus Marty's class.Quote:
Originally Posted by Acornvilla
Im back :)
Conas ata tu
Been off the grid for a month. Did I miss anything?
Me? 8-)Quote:
Originally Posted by tetsujin1979
Dun dun duuuuun!Quote:
Originally Posted by Ciaran W
Yeah - Cool Dog. He's like the Fonz. Only he's a dog.Quote:
Originally Posted by tetsujin1979
'A lady?' Jem raised his head. His face was scarlet. 'After all those things she said about you, a lady?'
'She was. She had her own views about things, a lot different from mine, maybe...Son, I told you that if you hadn't lost your head I'd have made you go read to her. I wanted you to see something about her. I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what. You rarely win, but sometimes you do. Mrs Dubose won, all ninety-eight pounds of her. according to her views, she died beholden to nothing and nobody. She was the bravest person I ever knew.'
Please remove yourself from my presence at once. It is a fine ditty!Quote:
Originally Posted by Dunny
Good excerpt - I'll name it in one!!Quote:
Originally Posted by osarusan
"Gazza - My Story" ????????
I haven't read it, so can't rule it out for sure.Quote:
Originally Posted by Wolfie
In fact, it's quite possible that Harper Lee was plagiarising Gazza when she wrote 'To kill a Mockingbird.' There are too many similarities to be coincidental.
The gaeltacht is the best 3 weeks ever :)
The megan fox episode of two and a half men :o
my voice is as husky as a dog used to pull sleighs. Aw t'was worth it though! :D
Whoooo let the Mons out, Cooke, Cooke, Cooke, Cooke!
RTE Gold - where have you been all my life?!
"Breakfast is announced. Mr. Pickwick leads the old lady (who has been very eloquent on the subject of Lady Tollimglower) to the top of a long table; Wardle takes the bottom; the friends arrange themselves on either side; Sam takes his station behind his master’s chair; the laughter and talking cease; Mr. Pickwick, having said grace, pauses for an instant and looks round him. As he does so, the tears roll down his cheeks, in the fullness of his joy.
Let us leave our old friend in one of those moments of unmixed happiness, of which, if we seek them, there are ever some, to cheer our transitory existence here. There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast. Some men, like bats or owls, have better eyes for the darkness than for the light. We, who have no such optical powers, are better pleased to take our last parting look at the visionary companions of many solitary hours, when the brief sunshine of the world is blazing full upon them."