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

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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