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Re: "I'm after ..." (Re: Maybe Spam? "Sorunsuz Yathamanýn Kefyi .. .")

From:Keith Gaughan <kmgaughan@...>
Date:Tuesday, September 28, 2004, 10:56
Joe wrote:

> Keith Gaughan wrote: > >> Well, there's one glaring one that shows that I'm from around the >> border, and that is the use of the tag statement "so X >> do/am/will/have/would/etc.". You should be more than familar with >> that one from Father Ted. For shame, and you having lived there too! > > Ah, you see, I didn't count that - I use it too.
You might have picked that up while you were living here. Everybody seems to, and I have to resist the urge to write and say it while I'm in Cork because people keep on picking up on it and slagging me about it. <on my use of 'wee'>
> Yes, I wasn't quite sure whether it was a borrowing from Scottish in a > semi-jocular fashion or an actual dialectal feature.
Nope, actual dialectical feature, just like using "cat" for "awful" and "tae" for "tea".
>> [1] Slagging off Leitrim is just short of being a national sport, along >> with slagging off Dublin, Tipperary, and, in particular, Kerry. >> Don't ask me why... > > Yes, I don't see why. From what I remember, it was rather pretty. > Empty, perhaps, but pretty.
Ok, I'll explain. That's the point: nobody lives there. The whole county has about half the population per km of Sligo--16/km vs. 32/km. Kerry gets slagged because because they're--or so it goes--born idiots, just like Belgium and Austria get slagged in France and Germany. Tipperary gets slagged because of the accent. And Dublin gets slagged because it's full of Jackeens. -- Keith Gaughan -- talideon.com The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones... ...to make place for some really big nukes!

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