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

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.

> "Wee" is another dialectism shared in the north and border counties
> with Scotland. You don't here it down here in Cork. You wouldn't believe
> the ribbing I get from my friends when Sligoisms end up slipping into
> my speech. You can't tell where a Sligoman is from from his accent,
> (ours seems to have become the standard, if only through fluke, or maybe
> Yeats) but you can through his idiom.
>
Yes, I wasn't quite sure whether it was a borrowing from Scottish in a
semi-jocular fashion or an actual dialectal feature.

> K.
>
> [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.

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