Watching the after match interviews last night, YOU KNOW, and the amount of "You Knows?" was unreal - especially, you know, from Armagh ones... Is it just a habit or a sign, YOU KNOW, that we cannot put a sentence together? You know? A Tohill is, YOU KNOW, the same etc WHY?
The same reason people says "So I did" and "so it was" - because they're thick!
Fillers for people who have a poor vocabulary, "as I said, you know" the same people talk in cliches.
the same reason ppl say 'Im not being funny yea'- because they are dense
In Scotland its "Ye Ken?" .. as per Irvine Welsh ...
Ronan Clarke must've said it 23 times in 29 seconds.
Are as in Kerry they append the word So to the end of every sentence
Not getting at anyone but it is a thing that we don't even know we're saying most of the time .. Is it a northern thing?
Quote from: pintsofguinness on July 28, 2008, 11:27:04 PM
The same reason people says "So I did" and "so it was" - because they're thick!
That must be the sweeping statement to end all sweeping statements
Quote from: Dougal Maguire on July 28, 2008, 11:43:38 PM
Quote from: pintsofguinness on July 28, 2008, 11:27:04 PM
The same reason people says "So I did" and "so it was" - because they're thick!
That must be the sweeping statement to end all sweeping statements
It's true.
Quote from: pintsofguinness on July 28, 2008, 11:44:47 PM
Quote from: Dougal Maguire on July 28, 2008, 11:43:38 PM
Quote from: pintsofguinness on July 28, 2008, 11:27:04 PM
The same reason people says "So I did" and "so it was" - because they're thick!
That must be the sweeping statement to end all sweeping statements
It's true.
It is, you know?
Yeah, though I would give the benefit of doubt to those saying it in interviews/on tv and I'd put it down to just awkwardness or nerves - but if anyone uses it in everyday life they're probably thick.
The Ulster Scots equivilant apparently is "Ye Knoe" .. can someone answer this? Is 'Mucker' as in mate, derived from Mo Chara?
Ach you know its just one of them things. No harm in it.
What about people who say 'like' all the time ::)
'Know what I mean like'....you can hear it in a real Belfast accent...awful hard on the ears.
That's a lot of balls, like! .. In Edinburgh - thanks to Irvine Welsh - they say "Like a Say!" WHICH IS FOLLOWED By "YE KEN" (Know what I mean?)...
Quote from: hardstation on July 28, 2008, 11:57:09 PM
Quote from: Hurler on the Bitch on July 28, 2008, 11:51:30 PM
The Ulster Scots equivilant apparently is "Ye Knoe" .. can someone answer this? Is 'Mucker' as in mate, derived from Mo Chara?
So they say. I don't believe it myself. "We used to muck about together". "He's only mucking about."
Nah.
Maybe, "he's my Mucker!" ... I was in a pub in the west and on the menu were 'Mo Chara' burgers .. I asked the waitress what was the crack and she said that you had to aske how "Mo Chara" after you ate them................... arse! okay, my favourite .. 1989 .. the night before Antrim v Tipp ... I goes into McEneaney's with my ticket for the Hogan Stand and shows the barman it ... it said at the bottom 'LUACH £18' - HE SAYS TO ME .. Feck me, that's a quare price, but at least there giving you some LUNCH for the price of it!
I hate the way some people end all their sentences with "know what I mean"
Me too ziggy
Yeah Clarke has a particular penchant for combining the two ... aye Stevie was good you know lak, and we did a lot better you know lak in midfield and that you know.
Not really fair to single out Clarke as to be honest it is the way a lot of people in the North talk. I have a lot of friends who fire lak into very sentence, educated people at that so it's just a product of your surroundings and the way people talk in a certain area that leads to it. I think the fact a TV camera is put on someone gets them nervous and they revert to using sentence fillers more often than if they were having a normal conversation.
Quote from: Derry Devil on July 28, 2008, 11:53:54 PM
What about people who say 'like' all the time ::)
The classy Newry birds combine the two "You know like".
Not just a Northern thing - just listen to Sean Og O hAilpin, like, you know.
Juno what i mean like.... juno what i mean like.... juno... like... like... juno... juno what I mean like
http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=w2jr17KFG_Y (http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=w2jr17KFG_Y)
People who use the words "like" and "but" together when they are talking like, but that is fairly common up North.
As for people who use "like butt" - that's for an entirely different discussion board!
Is there a name for the appending of superflous words at the end of a sentence? Other examples are:
- You know
- Like
- So it is
- aha
- huh
- my dahling
- son
I'd love to introduce a few new ones - I might try these out today:
- kiss my fat arse you mother fecker
as in "No your honour, i was nowhere in the vicinity at the time the grafitti went up, kiss my fat arse you mother fecker"
"I says to her says I".
Another Lurgan favourite.
On that point Mickey Harte & John Allen are the only 2 county managers that I have heard in recent years who don't talk in clichés and use 'erms', 'ahs', 'ye knows' and the likes in every sentance. Can managers not give some thought as to what they are going to say and then talk in proper sentances? Peter McDonnell is the worst in a while.
What about Padraig Harrington? Eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh.
I think I remember a Gift Grub a while back where it was like "So Padraig tell us about your new job... eh it's deadly, I'm now the new sound that you hear when a van reverses... eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh,
Another GAA -specific one seems to be "I suppose". It seems to be mainly Munster-centred, but I have heard Kilkenny fellas (Shefflin, especially) overdoing it as well. It's very rare for a Cork or Kerry player, manager or bottle-carrier to be interviewed without supposing at an alarming rate.
What about "I tell ya what it is".....drives me up the f**kin wall!!
I say "right" or "like" quite a bit.
I forgot about the Donegal favourite. At the end of sentences they add:
"... and things like dat der"
The worst I've heard is a mate of mine who says "Basically" all the time. It is just used as a sentence filler but someone saying basically 4 times in one sentence sounds extremely condescending!
QuoteIn Tyrone, you will find the use of the word "mines", e.g. instead of "that's my ball", "that ball is mines" is used.
Can't say I've heard anyone comin out with that one?
Quote from: under the bar on July 29, 2008, 11:13:57 AM
QuoteIn Tyrone, you will find the use of the word "mines", e.g. instead of "that's my ball", "that ball is mines" is used.
Can't say I've heard anyone comin out with that one?
Yes, I've heard that from boys in west Tyrone.
I use "mines" as well.
I'm more uneducated than i thought!
Not as bad as south derrys use of "yousens"
Quote from: nifan on July 29, 2008, 11:50:48 AM
I use "mines" as well.
I'm more uneducated than i thought!
Not as bad as south derrys use of "yousens"
Brilliant... yuns and yousens are very prevalent amongst us South Derry folk alright. I'm almost immune to noticing it at this stage!
QuoteIn Tyrone the use of the word "wild", but pronounced "wile", is widespread, e.g. it's wile hot today.
Living in County Armagh (originally West Tyrone) and only recently have I noticed (mainly in e-mails) the use of the word 'wild' where I would have pronounced it 'wile - 'You're a wile man'.
The 'mines' saying is something that I get corrected on too as it must be just a W Tyrone thing. People from the Strabane area are very fond of the 'you know' statement every 3 seconds whilst being interviewed - the 2 worst offenders of 'you know' I have seen have been from basically the same area - Shay Given and Steven O'Neill.
QuoteNot as bad as south derrys use of "yousens"
My cousins wife in vice-principal of a p.s. in South Derry. She expects to be principal when the current one retires in a year or two. Her use of "yousens" and even "n'you-en-zes" is the most irritating expressions I've yet to hear. When she at one point claimed that part of Donegal was actually in the North I said a quiet prayer for the kids who were forced to be educated under her...