You know what really grinds my gears?

AZOffaly · April 13, 2015, 10:29:20 AM

Who says Kenty Denn? Or Kenty Culkenny?

Is it the AA Roadwatch crew? Rindabaht?

Hardy · April 13, 2015, 10:39:24 AM

Quote from: AZOffaly on April 13, 2015, 10:29:20 AM
Who says Kenty Denn? Or Kenty Culkenny?

Is it the AA Roadwatch crew? Rindabaht?

Those, multiple readers of sports bulletins and a sizeable proportion of the under-30 cohort.

They also say cancel for council, debt for doubt. It's the D4 accent, but I hear it now in Passage West, Knocknagoshel and Ballylanders. And usually with an upward inflexion at the end of each sentence to to turn a statement into a question. I know it's all been given out about before, but it's not working. It's getting worse.

And don't get me started on "so".

AZOffaly · April 13, 2015, 10:40:28 AM

I say 'so', and I also say 'Lookit'. I apologise so.

Hardy · April 13, 2015, 10:51:48 AM

Quote from: AZOffaly on April 13, 2015, 10:40:28 AM
I say 'so', and I also say 'Lookit'. I apologise so.

Lookit is great. And "so" at the end of the sentence is OK, though I don't know where you picked it up if you haven't lived in Cork. (You can't buy anything in Cork without being told "that's four-fifty so".)

I'm talking about this sort of stuff that makes my ears bleed:
Cathal Mac Coille - Professor Hairyears, tell us about this research.
Prof. H. - So we've been looking at how atoms of horseshit coagulate to form molecules of trendyspeak ...
CMcC - And what have you found?
Prof. H. - So it turns out that bulldung is actually the key ingredient ...
CMcC - What are the implications of this discovery?
Prof. H. - So it appears that this stuff is a fuckin epidemic.
Etc., etc.

(Speaking of which - excetera for etcetera.)

deiseach · April 13, 2015, 10:58:20 AM

Quote from: Hardy on April 13, 2015, 10:27:21 AM
I'm only getting started.

All these years and you still haven't started!

Hardy · April 13, 2015, 10:59:58 AM

I've started, so I'll finish.

AZOffaly · April 13, 2015, 11:05:46 AM

We say so at the end of sentences in Offaly, at least I think we do. Between marrying a Kerry woman, living in Limerick, Tipp and Arizona, who knows where I pick stuff up.

Hardy · April 13, 2015, 11:08:46 AM

Jayz, I'd say you have to Google yourself to find out where you live.

seafoid · April 13, 2015, 11:29:40 AM

Quote from: AZOffaly on April 13, 2015, 10:40:28 AM
I say 'so', and I also say 'Lookit'. I apologise so.

It's like that so it is.

muppet · April 13, 2015, 04:20:57 PM

Lookit nothin' mathers 'cept joon-or foot baal & seen-or hurdling.

Eamonnca1 · April 13, 2015, 06:20:12 PM

Sorry if I've mentioned this before, but that northern thing of calling everything "wee."

"Put your wee card into the wee slot and put your wee number in there."

And don't get me started on "that there" when all you mean is "that."

5 Sams · April 13, 2015, 07:21:21 PM

Quote from: Eamonnca1 on April 13, 2015, 06:20:12 PM
Sorry if I've mentioned this before, but that northern thing of calling everything "wee."

"Put your wee card into the wee slot and put your wee number in there."

And don't get me started on "that there" when all you mean is "that."

Jaysus don't forget your wee receipt!

gallsman · April 13, 2015, 07:23:30 PM

Quote from: 5 Sams on April 13, 2015, 07:21:21 PM
Quote from: Eamonnca1 on April 13, 2015, 06:20:12 PM
Sorry if I've mentioned this before, but that northern thing of calling everything "wee."

"Put your wee card into the wee slot and put your wee number in there."

And don't get me started on "that there" when all you mean is "that."

Jaysus don't forget your wee receipt!

He's right, it does my head in too. Every last thing can be "wee" when chatting to some people. Maddening.

heganboy · April 13, 2015, 09:02:20 PM

here's me wha?

Eamonnca1 · April 14, 2015, 04:16:17 AM

Here...