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Absolutely Like Totally Amazing RiiiiiiightIn that order.
Is it discrimination to hate people who say 'super!' ?
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Absolutely Like Totally Amazing RiiiiiiightIn that order.
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So, nothing wrong with "perfect!" or "obviously" then.
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"Perfect" is grand, "obviously" is old hat, the 'like' brigade don't use it at all. So, nope, no objections.
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Obviously.
I once dealt with a professional man from The Kingdom who prefaced everything he said with: "Look, lishten,..........."
Which didn't overly concern me except that I initially thought he was arguing with everything I was saying
Since this is a particularly pedantic thread I'll point out in advance that "lishten" is not a typo but a phonetic representation of what he was saying to me. Not that I'm a posh speaker by a long long stretch, I too suffer from putting a "h" after every "s"
That's wierd since the correct Kerry pronunciation is, of course, 'lishen'. The closer you get to the Cork border ( people of Rathmore- you know who I'm talking about) the more it ends on an upward inflexion.
Around here 'sh' appears in all sorts of words commonly, for example 'bishqit' for biscuit.
Normal responses to questions here include 'grand', 'work away', 'very good' and so on. 'Actually' is a word that teenagers and younger children use frequently until they realise that that too is annoying. 'Super!' is just nerve grating. She must have been a foreigner, the more I think about it, from Dublin or someplace like that...
My favourite "Kerryism" is:
"was no way _____ faith".
e.g. Jaysus, he was no way drunk faith lash night. Meaning he was very drunk last night.
Has the use of the word "whist" declined, I used it recently and only a percentage of the people were familiar with it. It basically means be quiet or shut up, depending on the tone. Probably not the most polite of terms.
"was no way _____ faith".
e.g. Jaysus, he was no way drunk faith lash night. Meaning he was very drunk last night.
Has the use of the word "whist" declined, I used it recently and only a percentage of the people were familiar with it. It basically means be quiet or shut up, depending on the tone. Probably not the most polite of terms.
LOL. That sentence should read either ' Faith he was no way drunk last night' or 'Jaysus, he was no way drunk lash night, faith.'
A very subtle difference but it's all in the nuances.
'Whisht' would still be used but really only between people who are very familiar with each other, families etc. So you wouldn't hear it too often because of that.
Also phrases such as ' I do be going...', 'yerra', etc all still common place.
A very subtle difference but it's all in the nuances.
'Whisht' would still be used but really only between people who are very familiar with each other, families etc. So you wouldn't hear it too often because of that.
Also phrases such as ' I do be going...', 'yerra', etc all still common place.
A variation being "wudje ever hould yer whisht!'.
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I didn't know you spoke Polish.
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You have to get into the mind of Cork people in order to understand them so you are just doing your job properly there and that is laudable. The other group of people who say 'like' all the time is, like, teenage girls and, like, ohmygod, it's, like, so annoying!
ohmygod us corkies have excellent speech like!!!!! your only jealous purple coz we have the best hurling team..... like
My OH says "to be honest" at the beginning of ALOT of his sentences!!! grrrr....
I say super all the time but then again I'm a Yank at heart anyway. The corporate-speak has to be the worst. Someone mentioned 'going foward'. How about being asked to 'progress' or 'action' something. I hate the word 'bespoke' for some reason. where did that come from.
...like about nurses, eh Purple?
Quote: "True, but I don't see them proposing anything other than "decrease my hours and increase my pay". That would be fine if their representatives didn't spend the rest of their time talking about a crisis in A&E (and everywhere else in the health service). "
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Supoibe
нет, но я говорим русского