For those coming to Cork city

[Ceannt]

For people going to Cork city this is a must read

1) C'mere = Excuse me

2) I will yeah! = no!

3) What's the story fella? = how are you?

4) hows the form? = hows it hanging?:

5) You would yeah! = You wouldn't dare!

6) Here la = here you are

7) There la = it's over there / look over there

8) State a him la = He looks bad

9) (Ah / Awe) now sham = that's good

10) I claim ya = I would really like to engage in a fight with you.

11) Pure = very

12) Two f*cks = care

13) Couldn't give two f*cks = I don't care

14) Like = this word is used at least once in every Cork sentence. E.g.
Ah know like you understand don't ya?

15) Like eh = Used as a hesitation at the start of a sentence.

16) Nawful (he's a nawful langer) = terrible

17) Bate = beat up, used with da f*ck. E.g. I'll bate da f*ck outa ya

18) Have a lash off = have a go


19) Lash into hash = Smoke cannabis

20) Be wide = be careful

21) Scetch = There's someone coming (be wide)

22) Be doggy wide = be extra careful

23) How bad bhoy = good

24) Bhoy (pronounced-by biya) = man / person. Not necessarily a Celt.

25) A trip in the white van = A trip in an ambulance

26) Here girl= when talking to females the man saids.... Come here girl like ect.ect

[Aetius Helvius Merula]

Lol, must lead to a fair amount of confusion with people from other places. Is it just Cork residents who talk like that?

[Ceannt]

Just in Cork there girl. 8)

[MARCvSVIBIvSMAvRINvS]

Brilliant U have the same xperience as I did when i used to have an English GF from up North!!!

LOL

and me thinks thats not all ya 'ave learned! :oops:

M.VIB.M.

[Ceannt]

Well you take that there down there bhoy like and you will sound like a corkbhoy Like. Give it a Lash,

P.S talk through your nose

[MARCvSVIBIvSMAvRINvS]

LAWLZ!!!!!!!!!!!

M.VIB.M.

[Aetius Helvius Merula]

And they probably don't say it real slow so the uninitiated can puzzle it out

[Hibernicus]

Shouldn't that be "Cark"?

Hib

[Iagoba]

Remembering my job practice in Dublin this summer:
Irish speaking to me: understanding 90% .
Irish speaking to Irish in the canteen:understanding 50% , divided in:
-F***ing/F*ck/F***ed, understood: 100%
-Rest of all: understood 0%. hock:
And I´m sure they were speaking English... :roll: But not the one we are teached in the schools of Spain... :lol:

[Simplex]

Mmm-h, folks....
..that's probably why I didn't understand a lot of what Cap'n Caerk of Star Trek used to say --- clears up a lot, if I may say so ! Thanks a f*****g Lot ! :wink:
But, seriously, I think that every european country got such areas where you could easily establish "bootcamps for learning local dialects".
( ...and: yes there is a difference between what you learn at school/university as a foreign language and what people do speak on the streets ou there, and, the farther you leave the metropolitan areas, the more interesting it gets.)
Be asured: Stuff like bavarian dialects is more from the easier side of this, though.
Did you know that people from western intelligence services used local dialects to fool their eastern opponents when talking on the phone uncrypted ?? (Like the Americans used "Windtalkers" in WW 2, e.g. the Swiss used Alp-Öhis" or something like this for this pupose ?? :wink: )
I guess some swiss dialects at least let some eastern linguists working
for the KGB scratch their heads in embarrassement more than once. 8)
Interesting question: was the corkian dialect used for such purposes in the past ??
Greez
Simplex

[MARCvSVIBIvSMAvRINvS]

I've got a combine harrrvesterrrrrrrrrrrrrr

Yeovil!!!

:lol:

M.VIB.M.

[Ceannt]

I've got a combine harrrvesterrrrrrrrrrrrrr

Yeovil!!!

:lol:

M.VIB.M.

Thats From UP North in yo 8) rk

[Ceannt]

LAWLZ!!!!!!!!!!!

M.VIB.M.

What are you trying to say there bhoy :?:

[Ceannt]

Shouldn't that be "Cark"?

Hib

A nooooooooooo there bhoy you jackenn 8)

[Ceannt]

(guess some swiss dialects at least let some eastern linguists working
for the KGB scratch their heads in embarrassement more than once.
Interesting question: was the corkian dialect used for such purposes in the past ?? )


A no thats just the way cork city people talked and still talk in some spots